John Cassavetes

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1929-12-09 (60 years old)

Deathday

1989-02-03

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

John Cassavetes

Biography

John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. First known as an actor on television and in film, Cassavetes also became a pioneer of American independent cinema, writing and directing movies financed in part with income from his acting work. AllMovie called him "an iconoclastic maverick," while The New Yorker suggested that he "may be the most influential American director of the last half century." As an actor, Cassavetes starred in notable Hollywood films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, including Edge of the City (1957), The Dirty Dozen (1967), and Rosemary's Baby (19...

Acting

1967

The Dirty Dozen

as Victor Franko

1968

Rosemary's Baby

as Guy Woodhouse

1976

Two-Minute Warning

as Sgt. Chris Button

1964

The Killers

as Johnny North

1981

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

as Dr. Michael Emerson

1978

The Fury

as Ben Childress

1977

Opening Night

as Maurice Aarons

1957

Affair in Havana

as Nick Douglas

1957

Edge of the City

as Axel Nordmann

1956

Crime in the Streets

as Frankie Dane

1955

The Night Holds Terror

as Robert Batsford

2014

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

as Robert Harmon (archive footage) (uncredited)

1969

Machine Gun McCain

as Hank McCain

1982

Tempest

as Phillip

1975

Capone

as Frankie Yale

1970

Husbands

as Gus Demetri

1984

Love Streams

as Robert Harmon

1978

Brass Target

as Maj. Joe De Lucca

1967

1958

Saddle the Wind

as Tony Sinclair

1976

1982

Incubus

as Dr. Sam Cordell

2002

The Kid Stays in the Picture

as Self (archive footage)

1993

Anything for John

as Self (archive footage)

2008

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

as Guy Woodhouse (archive footage)

1985

Marvin & Tige

as Marvin

1959

1968

1968

Bandits in Rome

as Mario Corda

2006

Edge of Outside

as Self (archive footage)

1977

Heroes

as VA Doctor (uncredited)

1953

Taxi

as Man (uncredited)

1982

The Haircut

as Music Industry Executive

1979

Flesh & Blood

as Gus Caputo

1984

1985

Nederland C

as Self - Portrait of the actor / cinematographer

2000

A Constant Forge

as Self (archive footage)

2019

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

as Self (archive footage)

1962

The Webster Boy

as Vance Miller

1956

1973

Nightside

as Carmine Kelly

1951

Fourteen Hours

as Reporter (uncredited)

1960

Shadows

as Pedestrian (uncredited)

Production

1968

Faces

as Producer

1968

Faces

as Editor

1968

Faces

as Director

1980

Gloria

as Director

1971

1977

Opening Night

as Writer

1977

Opening Night

as Director

1997

1960

Shadows

as Editor

1960

Shadows

as Director

1960

Shadows

as Writer

1970

Husbands

as Director

1984

Love Streams

as Director

1970

Husbands

as Writer

1961

Too Late Blues

as Director

1961

1963

1968

Faces

as Writer

1986

Big Trouble

as Director

1980

Gloria

as Writer

1999

Gloria

as Original Film Writer

1970

Husbands

as Editor

2014

Castanha

as Thanks

1961

Too Late Blues

as Producer

1982

Incubus

as Screenplay

1984

Love Streams

as Screenplay

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