Seymour Cassel

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-01-22 (84 years old)

Deathday

2019-04-07

Place of Birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Seymour Cassel

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...

Acting

2004

1968

Faces

as Chet

2003

Stuck on You

as Morty O'Reilly

1994

2007

Postal

as Paul

1993

Indecent Proposal

as Mr. Shackleford

1998

Rushmore

as Bert Fischer

1993

Boiling Point

as Virgil Leach

2005

1971

Minnie and Moskowitz

as Seymour Moskowitz

1994

Chasers

as Master Chief Bogg

2005

The Wendell Baker Story

as Boyd Fullbright

1991

White Fang

as Skunker

1996

2002

Stealing Harvard

as Uncle Jack

1999

2009

Staten Island

as Jasper Sabiano

1978

Convoy

as Governor Haskins

2000

Animal Factory

as Lt. Seeman

1992

Honeymoon in Vegas

as Tony Cataracts

1968

Coogan's Bluff

as Young Hood

1986

1992

Love Is Like That

as Uncle Bud

2006

2001

The Man Who Wasn't There

as Spectator at Execution (uncredited)

1988

Track 29

as Dr. Bernard Fairmont

1997

1976

The Last Tycoon

as Seal Trainer

1960

Juke Box Racket

as Seymour

1999

1998

Hoods

as Pop Martinelli (uncredited)

2005

Bittersweet Place

as Jack 'Pappy' Schaffer

2000

The Crew

as Tony 'Mouth' Donato

2001

2008

Reach for Me

as Alvin

1992

1984

Love Streams

as Jack Lawson

2008

To Love and Die

as Grandfather

2003

Passionada

as Daniel Vargas

2011

L!fe Happens

as Pop Pop

1993

Trouble Bound

as Santino

1982

Double Exposure

as Dr. Frank Curtis

2000

Just One Night

as Arthur Imperial

1981

King of the Mountain

as Barry Tanner

1998

Relax... It's Just Sex

as Emile Pillsbury

1994

1980

2008

2011

Freerunner

as Grampa

1977

Death Game

as George Manning

2012

Booster

as Harold

1964

The Hanged Man

as Bellboy

1997

Obsession

as Jacob Frischmuth

1988

Colors

as Sullivan

1992

Cold Heaven

as Tom Farrelly

1977

Scott Joplin

as Dr. Jaelki

2012

1962

2002

The Biz

as Eugene Hinkle

1998

Johnny 316

as Store Keeper

1977

Black Oak Conspiracy

as Homer Metcalf

1993

Partners

as Janitor

1988

Plain Clothes

as Ed Malmburg

1979

California Dreaming

as Duke Slusarski

1979

Sunburn

as Dobbs

1991

1988

Johnny Be Good

as Wallace Gibson

2012

Broken Kingdom

as Clayton

2014

The Dependables

as Dominic Ackers

1991

Mobsters

as Father Bonotto

1989

Wicked Stepmother

as Feldshine

1964

The Killers

as Postal Clerk

2006

1992

1997

Cannes Man

as Sy Lerner

1996

The Last Home Run

as Older Jonathan

2014

Fort McCoy

as Father Mivkovek

1970

The Revolutionary

as Leonard II

2007

1994

Dark Side of Genius

as Samuel Rourke

1990

1996

1998

The Treat

as Chip O'Herlihee

1984

2002

2011

Faces

as Chet (archive footage)

1991

Dead in the Water

as Lt. Frank Vaness

2012

Lost Angeles

as Film Critic

1994

Hand Gun

as Jack McCallister

1979

Ravagers

as Blind Lawyer

2009

Not Dead Yet

as Francis

1997

Motel Blue

as Capistrano Minister

1999

1980

Angel on My Shoulder

as Smiley Mitchell

1987

Survival Game

as Dave Forrest

2010

Back Nine

as Mondo

1989

2006

Bye Bye Benjamin

as Mr. Ruby

1998

Emma's Wish

as Harry Bridges (old)

1993

1977

Valentino

as George Ullman

2010

Chasing 3000

as Poppy

1987

Best Seller

as Carter

2002

Sonny

as Albert

1960

Murder, Inc.

as Teenager

2001

Bartleby

as Frank Waxman

2000

2014

Lucky Dog

as The Real Spencer

2006

The Tenants

as Levenspiel

1990

Dick Tracy

as Sam Catchem

1998

Stingers

as Dino

1992

1996

Chameleon

as Francis

1998

Snapped

as Bob

2014

2012

Silver Case

as Dealer

1961

1994

Tollbooth

as Leon / Larry

2001

61*

as Sam Simon

2004

1991

1994

1996

Turnpike

as Older man

2008

Beau Jest

as Abe Goldman

2010

Without Borders

as Detective McKenneth

1996

Seed

as First Client

1995

1996

Dead Girl

as Ira Golub

1996

Trees Lounge

as Uncle Al

1963

1977

Opening Night

as Self (uncredited)

1960

Shadows

as Al (uncredited)

1987

Tin Men

as Cheese

1983

I Want to Live

as John Santo

2007

Cosmic Radio

as Malcolm Stone

1992

1973

Nightside

as Ralph

1980

The Jazz Singer

as Unnamed

2005

2002

The Burial Society

as Sam Goldberg

Production

1960

Shadows

as Associate Producer

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