Seymour Cassel
Known for: Acting
Born: January 22, 1935
Died: April 7, 2019
Place of birth: 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).
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Filmography
166 movies · 36 TV shows, newest first
8.0
Every Night's a Saturday Night
2018
3.5
Lucky Dog
2014
3.1
The Dependables
2014
5.6
Fort McCoy
2014
NR
At The Maple Grove
2014
4.9
The Secret Lives of Dorks
2013
4.7
Booster
2012
6.3
Broken Kingdom
2012
1.0
Lost Angeles
2012
6.2
Kingdom Come
2012NR
Pass the Salt, Please
2012
6.8
Magic City
2012
4.8
Silver Case
2012
NR
Faces
2011
4.5
Freerunner
2011
5.4
L!fe Happens
2011
3.0
Without Borders
2010
4.6
Pete Smalls Is Dead
20105.0
Back Nine
2010
8.6
Regular Show
2010
6.2
Chasing 3000
2010
6.0
Staten Island
2009NR
Not Dead Yet
2009
5.7
To Love and Die
2008NR
To Love and Die
2008
2.8
Reach for Me
2008
2.0
Beau Jest
2008NR
Big Heart City
2008
1.7
Cosmic Radio
2007
4.6
Postal
2007
8.0
Flight of the Conchords
2007
3.1
Hollywood Dreams
2007
5.5
Sea of Dreams
2006
5.2
Beer League
2006
8.0
Ray of Sunshine
2006
5.8
Edge of Outside
2006
7.2
Heist
2006
4.8
The Tenants
2006
2.0
Bye Bye Benjamin
2006
6.1
Lonesome Jim
2005
4.0
Circadian Rhythm
2005
3.6
Before It Had a Name
2005
5.1
The Wendell Baker Story
2005
6.8
This Is an Adventure
2005
8.5
Bittersweet Place
2005
7.1
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004
8.3
Justice League Unlimited
2004
NR
Making 'Faces'
2004
5.4
Stuck on You
2003
6.9
Passionada
2003
3.1
A Good Night to Die
2003
9.0
Lucky
2003
5.2
Sonny
2002
6.0
The Burial Society
2002
10.0
Manna from Heaven
2002
4.9
Stealing Harvard
2002
7.0
The Biz
2002
7.5
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
7.5
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
9.0
The Cure for Boredom
2001
7.0
61*
2001
7.9
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2001
5.8
Bartleby
2001
5.3
The Sleepy Time Gal
2001
4.1
Women of the Night
2001
7.7
Boston Public
2000
6.3
Animal Factory
2000
6.8
A Constant Forge
2000
5.0
Just One Night
2000
5.4
The Crew
2000
6.2
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
5.4
Black & White
1999
7.1
Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
1999
7.0
Kubanisch rauchen
1999
5.4
Me and Will
1999
4.2
Ballad of the Nightingale
1999
7.4
Rushmore
1998
7.0
Stingers
1998
5.0
Emma's Wish
1998
5.5
Snapped
1998
3.6
The Treat
1998
6.8
Hoods
1998
5.9
Relax... It's Just Sex
1998
5.8
Johnny 316
1998
4.1
Motel Blue
1997
4.2
Obsession
1997
5.3
This World, Then the Fireworks
1997
6.8
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
7.1
The Last Don
1997
5.4
Chameleon
1996
4.8
Dead Girl
199610.0
Turnpike
1996
5.3
The Last Home Run
19963.3
Slaughter of the Cock
1996
6.9
Arli$$
1996
5.3
Cannes Man
1996
6.9
Trees Lounge
1996
5.5
Things I Never Told You
1996
5.1
Dream for an Insomniac
19969.0
Good Company
1996NR
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
1996
8.2
Tracey Takes On...
1996
10.0
Seed
1996
6.7
Dead Presidents
1995
6.2
Tollbooth
199410.0
Ouf!
1994
6.4
Imaginary Crimes
1994
4.9
Hand Gun
1994
7.2
Chicago Hope
1994
6.0
Under Suspicion
1994
6.2
There Goes My Baby
1994
5.3
Dark Side of Genius
1994
6.7
It Could Happen to You
1994
5.4
Chasers
19945.2
Partners
1993
5.6
When Pigs Fly
1993
7.3
Anything for John
1993
4.9
Boiling Point
1993
6.4
Indecent Proposal
1993
5.7
Trouble Bound
1993
4.7
Adventures in Spying
1992
6.7
In the Soup
1992
5.7
Honeymoon in Vegas
1992
4.3
Chain of Desire
1992
5.5
Love Is Like That
1992
4.3
Cold Heaven
1992
7.0
What Happened to Pete
1992
10.0
Face of a Stranger
1991
5.4
Dead in the Water
1991
5.4
Diary of a Hitman
1991
6.3
Mobsters
1991
6.8
White Fang
1991
5.3
Cold Dog Soup
1990
6.2
Dick Tracy
1990
5.5
Sweet Bird of Youth
1989NR
Arena - John Cassavetes
1989
4.6
Wicked Stepmother
1989
5.6
Track 29
1988
6.5
Colors
1988
5.8
Plain Clothes
1988
4.6
Johnny Be Good
1988
6.0
Survival Game
1987
8.4
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
5.9
Best Seller
1987
6.3
Tin Men
1987
6.1
Eye of the Tiger
1986
4.6
Beverly Hills Madam
1986
7.1
Matlock
1986
7.2
Tales from the Darkside
1984
8.3
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
1984
3.5
Young Lust: A Soap Opera
1984
7.2
Love Streams
1984
4.8
I Want to Live
1983
4.5
Double Exposure
1982
5.9
King of the Mountain
1981
5.9
The Jazz Singer
1980
5.9
The Mountain Men
1980
6.6
Angel on My Shoulder
1980
5.0
Sunburn
1979
4.5
Ravagers
1979
4.7
California Dreaming
1979
6.3
Convoy
1978
7.6
Opening Night
1977
5.8
Valentino
1977
5.8
Death Game
1977
5.7
Black Oak Conspiracy
1977
6.6
Scott Joplin
1977
6.3
The Last Tycoon
1976
7.0
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
1976
5.6
Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
1975
10.0
Nightside
1973
8.0
Emergency!
1972
6.7
Minnie and Moskowitz
1971
5.3
The Revolutionary
1970
7.1
Faces
1968
6.3
Coogan's Bluff
1968
5.7
Cimarron Strip
1967
6.9
The Invaders
1967
7.3
Batman
1966
5.6
The F.B.I.
1965
6.4
Laredo
1965
5.1
The Hanged Man
1964
7.2
12 O'Clock High
1964
7.8
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964
6.9
The Killers
19645.9
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
6.3
Burke's Law
1963
7.3
The Fugitive
1963
6.5
The Nutty Professor
1963
7.9
Combat!
1962
6.0
The Lloyd Bridges Show
1962
10.0
The Webster Boy
1962
6.4
Too Late Blues
1961
6.0
Alcoa Premiere
1961
6.9
Shadows
1960
6.6
My Three Sons
1960
6.5
Murder, Inc.
1960
6.5
Juke Box Racket
1960
6.6
Man on a String
1960
8.5
The Twilight Zone
1959
5.7
Naked City
1958
6.6
Wagon Train
1957