Seymour Cassel

Seymour Cassel

American actor (1935–2019)

Seymour Joseph Cassel 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).

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 22 films (1958–2000) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field.

Year ▼ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
2000 The Crew Michael Dinner 88 min Color
1998 Rushmore Wes Anderson 93 min Color
1996 Turnpike Asphalt Institute Bldg 16mm sound
1991 White Fang Films Incorporated Video 104 min 16mm Color sound
1990 Dick Tracy Warren Beatty 103 min 16mm Color
1987 Tin men Barry Levinson 112 min Color
1980 The Mountain Men Richard Lang 100 min Color
1980 The mountain men Richard Lang 100 min Color
1979 California Dreaming John D. Hancock
1979 The Mountain Men Columbia Picture Corp 100 min 16mm Color sound
1976 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie John Cassavetes
1976 The Last Tycoon Academy Pictures, A.G 123 min Color sound
1971 Minnie And Moskowitz Faces Music 115 min Color sound
1968 Coogan's Bluff. Universal Pictures 90 min 35mm Color sound
1968 Faces John Cassavetes 130 min B&W
1968 Faces John Cassavetes
1961 Too Late Blues. Paramount Pictures Corp. 96 min 35mm B&W sound
1960 Murder, Inc. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 103 min 35mm B&W sound
1960 Shadows Maurice McEndree, Pnico Papatakis, Seymour Cassel production ; screenplay, improvised by cast and director ; directed by John Cassavetes. 87 16mm B&W sound
1958 Shadows Ideal Pictures Inc 87 min 16mm B&W sound
1958 Shadows John Cassavetes 87 min B&W
19-- Faces Walter Reade Organization, Inc. presents ; producers, John Cassavetes, Maurice McEndree ; written and directed by John Cassavetes. 130 16mm B&W sound