Seymour Cassel
Actor
Born January 22, 1935 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Seymour Joseph Cassel (January 22, 1935 – April 7, 2019) was an American actor who appeared in over 200 films and television shows, with a career spanning over 50 years. He first came to prominence in the 1960s in the pioneering independent films of writer/director John Cassavetes. The first of these was Too Late Blues (1961), followed by Faces (1968), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and won a National Society of Film Critics Award. Cassel went on to appear in Cassavetes's Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), Opening Night (1977), and Love Streams (1984). He also appeared in other notable films, including: Coogan's Bluff (1968), The Last Tycoon (1976), Valentino (1977), Convoy (1978), Johnny Be Good (1988), Mobsters (1991), In the Soup (1992), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), The Sleepy Time Gal (2001), Imaginary Crimes (1994), Beer League (2006), and Fort McCoy (2011). Like Cassavetes, Wes Anderson frequently cast Cassel – first in Rushmore (1998), then in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), and finally in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).
Filmography
Every Night's a Saturday Night
Self
Lucky Dog
The Real Spencer
The Dependables
Dominic Ackers
Fort McCoy
Father Mivkovek
At The Maple Grove
Boyle
The Secret Lives of Dorks
Principal
Booster
Harold
Broken Kingdom
Clayton
Lost Angeles
Film Critic
Kingdom Come
Self
Magic City
Silver Case
Dealer
Faces
Chet (archive footage)
Freerunner
Grampa
L!fe Happens
Pop Pop
Without Borders
Detective McKenneth
Pete Smalls Is Dead
Saco
Regular Show
Tony (voice)
The Aristofrogs
Chasing 3000
Poppy
Staten Island
Jasper Sabiano
To Love and Die
Grandfather
Reach for Me
Alvin
Beau Jest
Abe Goldman
Cosmic Radio
Malcolm Stone
Postal
Paul
Flight of the Conchords
Johnny Boy
Hollywood Dreams
Rupert
Sea of Dreams
Beer League
Dirt
Ray of Sunshine
Edge of Outside
Self
Heist
Pops
The Tenants
Levenspiel
Bye Bye Benjamin
Mr. Ruby
Lonesome Jim
Don
Circadian Rhythm
Hoover
Before It Had a Name
Jeff
The Wendell Baker Story
Boyd Fullbright
This Is an Adventure
Self
Bittersweet Place
Jack 'Pappy' Schaffer
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Esteban du Plantier
Justice League Unlimited
Chuck Sirianni (voice)
Making 'Faces'
Self
Stuck on You
Morty O'Reilly
Passionada
Daniel Vargas
A Good Night to Die
Guy
Lucky
Sonny
Albert
The Burial Society
Sam Goldberg
Manna from Heaven
Stanley
Stealing Harvard
Uncle Jack
The Biz
Eugene Hinkle
The Man Who Wasn't There
Spectator at Execution (uncredited)
The Royal Tenenbaums
Dusty
The Cure for Boredom
Eddie
61*
Sam Simon
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
Dazy Perrit
Bartleby
Frank Waxman
The Sleepy Time Gal
Bob
Women of the Night
Sally
Boston Public
Bernie Willis
Animal Factory
Lt. Seeman
A Constant Forge
Self
Just One Night
Arthur Imperial
The Crew
Tony 'Mouth' Donato
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Self
Black & White
Sal
Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
Self
Kubanisch rauchen
Dragan
Me and Will
Roy
Ballad of the Nightingale
Jimmy
Rushmore
Bert Fischer
Stingers
Dino
Emma's Wish
Harry Bridges (old)
Snapped
Bob
The Treat
Chip O'Herlihee
Hoods
Pop Martinelli (uncredited)
Relax... It's Just Sex
Emile
Johnny 316
Store Keeper
Motel Blue
Capistrano Minister
Obsession
Jacob Frischmuth
This World, Then the Fireworks
Detective Harris
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Self
The Last Don
Alfred Gronevelt
Chameleon
Francis
Dead Girl
Ira Golub
The Last Home Run
Older Jonathan
Arli$$
Artie
Cannes Man
Sy Lerner
Trees Lounge
Uncle Al
Things I Never Told You
Frank
Dream for an Insomniac
Uncle Leo
Tracey Takes On...
Candy Casino
Seed
First Client
Dead Presidents
Saul
Tollbooth
Leon / Larry
Imaginary Crimes
Eddie
Hand Gun
Jack McCallister
Chicago Hope
Norman Cambridge
Under Suspicion
Lt. Mickey Schwartz
There Goes My Baby
Pop
Dark Side of Genius
Samuel Rourke
It Could Happen to You
Jack Gross
Chasers
Master Chief Bogg
When Pigs Fly
Frank
Anything for John
Self
Boiling Point
Virgil Leach
Indecent Proposal
Mr. Shackleford
Trouble Bound
Santino
Adventures in Spying
Ray Rucker
In the Soup
Joe
Honeymoon in Vegas
Tony Cataracts
Chain of Desire
Mel
Love Is Like That
Uncle Bud
Cold Heaven
Tom Farrelly
What Happened to Pete
Bartender
Face of a Stranger
Ralph
Dead in the Water
Lt. Frank Vaness
Diary of a Hitman
Koenig
Mobsters
Father Bonotto
White Fang
Skunker
Cold Dog Soup
Jojo
Dick Tracy
Sam Catchem
Sweet Bird of Youth
Hatcher
Wicked Stepmother
Feldshine
Track 29
Dr. Bernard Fairmont
Colors
Sullivan
Plain Clothes
Ed Malmburg
Johnny Be Good
Wallace Gibson
Survival Game
Dave Forrest
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Lt. Cmdr. Hester Dealt
Best Seller
Carter
Tin Men
Cheese
Eye of the Tiger
Sheriff
Beverly Hills Madam
Tony
Matlock
Dick Silvers
Tales from the Darkside
Howard
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
Self
Young Lust: A Soap Opera
Dr. Klapper
Love Streams
Jack Lawson
I Want to Live
John Santo
Double Exposure
Dr. Frank Curtis
King of the Mountain
Barry Tanner
The Jazz Singer
Unnamed
The Mountain Men
La Bont
Angel on My Shoulder
Smiley Mitchell
Sunburn
Dobbs
Ravagers
Blind Lawyer
California Dreaming
Duke Slusarski
Convoy
Governor Haskins
Opening Night
Self (uncredited)
Valentino
George Ullman
Death Game
George Manning
Black Oak Conspiracy
Homer Metcalf
Scott Joplin
Dr. Jaelki
The Last Tycoon
Seal Trainer
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Mort Weil
Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
Wise Guy
Nightside
Ralph
Emergency!
Bluebell Hunter
Minnie and Moskowitz
Seymour Moskowitz
The Revolutionary
Leonard II
Faces
Chet
Coogan's Bluff
Young Hood
Cimarron Strip
The Invaders
Driver
Batman
Cancelled
The F.B.I.
Irwin
Laredo
The Hanged Man
Bellboy
12 O'Clock High
Capt. Johnson
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Jensen
The Killers
Postal Clerk
Burke's Law
Attendant
The Fugitive
Cabbie
The Nutty Professor
Bored Man
Combat!
Doctor
The Lloyd Bridges Show
Lawyer #2
The Webster Boy
Vic
Too Late Blues
Red
Alcoa Premiere
The Wounded Man
Shadows
Al (uncredited)
My Three Sons
Coach Gregson
Murder, Inc.
Teenager
Juke Box Racket
Seymour
Man on a String
The Twilight Zone
Jerry (uncredited)
Naked City
Student (uncredited)
Wagon Train
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