Seymour Cassel
Born January 22, 1935 (Age: 91)
•
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography
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).
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).
Read more
Filmography
Lost Angeles
2012
•
as Film Critic
•
Age: 77
L!fe Happens
2011
•
as Pop Pop
•
Age: 76
Without Borders
2010
•
as Detective McKenneth
•
Age: 75
The Aristofrogs
2010
•
as
•
Age: 75
No Image
Not Dead Yet
2009
•
as Francis
•
Age: 73
Cosmic Radio
2007
•
as Malcolm Stone
•
Age: 72
Postal
2007
•
as Paul
•
Age: 72
Beer League
2006
•
as Dirt
•
Age: 71
Bye Bye Benjamin
2006
•
as Mr. Ruby
•
Age: 71
Circadian Rhythm
2005
•
as Hoover
•
Age: 70
This Is an Adventure
2005
•
as Self
•
Age: 70
Bittersweet Place
2005
•
as Jack 'Pappy' Schaffer
•
Age: 70
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004
•
as Esteban du Plantier
•
Age: 69
Making 'Faces'
2004
•
as Self
•
Age: 68
Stuck on You
2003
•
as Morty O'Reilly
•
Age: 68
Sonny
2002
•
as Albert
•
Age: 67
The Burial Society
2002
•
as Sam Goldberg
•
Age: 67
Manna from Heaven
2002
•
as Stanley
•
Age: 67
Stealing Harvard
2002
•
as Uncle Jack
•
Age: 67
The Biz
2002
•
as Eugene Hinkle
•
Age: 67
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
•
as Spectator at Execution (uncredited)
•
Age: 66
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
•
as Dusty
•
Age: 66
Animal Factory
2000
•
as Lt. Seeman
•
Age: 65
A Constant Forge
2000
•
as Self
•
Age: 65
Just One Night
2000
•
as Arthur Imperial
•
Age: 65
The Crew
2000
•
as Tony 'Mouth' Donato
•
Age: 65
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
•
as Self
•
Age: 65
Rushmore
1998
•
as Bert Fischer
•
Age: 63
Stingers
1998
•
as Dino
•
Age: 63
Emma's Wish
1998
•
as Harry Bridges (old)
•
Age: 63
Snapped
1998
•
as Bob
•
Age: 63
The Treat
1998
•
as Chip O'Herlihee
•
Age: 63
Hoods
1998
•
as Pop Martinelli (uncredited)
•
Age: 63
Relax... It's Just Sex
1998
•
as Emile
•
Age: 63
Johnny 316
1998
•
as Store Keeper
•
Age: 63
Motel Blue
1997
•
as Capistrano Minister
•
Age: 62
Obsession
1997
•
as Jacob Frischmuth
•
Age: 62
This World, Then the Fireworks
1997
•
as Detective Harris
•
Age: 62
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
•
as Self
•
Age: 62
Chameleon
1996
•
as Francis
•
Age: 61
Dead Girl
1996
•
as Ira Golub
•
Age: 61
No Image
Turnpike
1996
•
as Older man
•
Age: 61
The Last Home Run
1996
•
as Older Jonathan
•
Age: 61
No Image
Slaughter of the Cock
1996
•
as Ahilleas
•
Age: 61
Cannes Man
1996
•
as Sy Lerner
•
Age: 61
Trees Lounge
1996
•
as Uncle Al
•
Age: 61
Things I Never Told You
1996
•
as Frank
•
Age: 61
Dream for an Insomniac
1996
•
as Uncle Leo
•
Age: 61
No Image
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
1996
•
as Self
•
Age: 61
Seed
1996
•
as First Client
•
Age: 60
Dead Presidents
1995
•
as Saul
•
Age: 60
No Image
Ouf!
1994
•
as
•
Age: 59
Imaginary Crimes
1994
•
as Eddie
•
Age: 59
There Goes My Baby
1994
•
as Pop
•
Age: 59
It Could Happen to You
1994
•
as Jack Gross
•
Age: 59
Chasers
1994
•
as Master Chief Bogg
•
Age: 59
No Image
Partners
1993
•
as Janitor
•
Age: 58
When Pigs Fly
1993
•
as Frank
•
Age: 58
Anything for John
1993
•
as Self
•
Age: 58
Chain of Desire
1993
•
as Mel
•
Age: 58
Boiling Point
1993
•
as Virgil Leach
•
Age: 58
Indecent Proposal
1993
•
as Mr. Shackleford
•
Age: 58
Trouble Bound
1993
•
as Santino
•
Age: 57
Adventures in Spying
1992
•
as Ray Rucker
•
Age: 57
In the Soup
1992
•
as Joe
•
Age: 57
Honeymoon in Vegas
1992
•
as Tony Cataracts
•
Age: 57
Love Is Like That
1992
•
as Uncle Bud
•
Age: 57
Cold Heaven
1992
•
as Tom Farrelly
•
Age: 57
What Happened to Pete
1992
•
as Bartender
•
Age: 57
Face of a Stranger
1991
•
as Ralph
•
Age: 56
Dead in the Water
1991
•
as Lt. Frank Vaness
•
Age: 56
Diary of a Hitman
1991
•
as Koenig
•
Age: 56
Mobsters
1991
•
as Father Bonotto
•
Age: 56
White Fang
1991
•
as Skunker
•
Age: 55
Cold Dog Soup
1990
•
as Jojo
•
Age: 55
Dick Tracy
1990
•
as Sam Catchem
•
Age: 55
Sweet Bird of Youth
1989
•
as Hatcher
•
Age: 54
No Image
Arena - John Cassavetes
1989
•
as Self
•
Age: 54
Wicked Stepmother
1989
•
as Feldshine
•
Age: 54
Track 29
1988
•
as Dr. Bernard Fairmont
•
Age: 53
Plain Clothes
1988
•
as Ed Malmburg
•
Age: 53
Colors
1988
•
as Sullivan
•
Age: 53
Johnny Be Good
1988
•
as Wallace Gibson
•
Age: 53
Survival Game
1987
•
as Dave Forrest
•
Age: 52
Best Seller
1987
•
as Carter
•
Age: 52
Tin Men
1987
•
as Cheese
•
Age: 52
King of the Mountain
1981
•
as Barry Tanner
•
Age: 46
The Jazz Singer
1980
•
as Unnamed
•
Age: 45
The Mountain Men
1980
•
as La Bont
•
Age: 45
Angel on My Shoulder
1980
•
as Smiley Mitchell
•
Age: 45
Convoy
1978
•
as Governor Haskins
•
Age: 43
Nightside
1973
•
as Ralph
•
Age: 38
Coogan's Bluff
1968
•
as Young Hood
•
Age: 33
The Hanged Man
1964
•
as Bellboy
•
Age: 29
The Killers
1964
•
as Postal Clerk
•
Age: 29
The Nutty Professor
1963
•
as Bored Man
•
Age: 28
The Webster Boy
1962
•
as Vic
•
Age: 27
Too Late Blues
1961
•
as Red
•
Age: 26
Shadows
1960
•
as Al (uncredited)
•
Age: 25
Murder, Inc.
1960
•
as Teenager
•
Age: 25
Juke Box Racket
1960
•
as Seymour
•
Age: 25
Man on a String
1960
•
as
•
Age: 25