Seymour Cassel
- Acting
- January 22, 1935 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
- April 7, 2019
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).
Known for
Filmography
- Every Night's a Saturday Night · Self
- Lucky Dog · The Real Spencer
- The Dependables · Dominic Ackers
- Fort McCoy · Father Mivkovek
- At The Maple Grove · Boyle
- The Secret Lives of Dorks · Principal
- Booster · Harold
- Broken Kingdom · Clayton
- Lost Angeles · Film Critic
- Kingdom Come · Self
- Pass the Salt, Please · Man
- Magic City
- Silver Case · Dealer
- Faces · Chet (archive footage)
- Freerunner · Grampa
- L!fe Happens · Pop Pop
- Without Borders · Detective McKenneth
- Pete Smalls Is Dead · Saco
- Back Nine · Mondo
- Regular Show · Tony (Voice)
- Chasing 3000 · Poppy
- Staten Island · Jasper Sabiano
- Not Dead Yet · Francis
- To Love and Die · Grandfather
- To Love and Die
- Reach for Me · Alvin
- Beau Jest · Abe Goldman
- Big Heart City · Larry
- Cosmic Radio · Malcolm Stone
- Postal · Paul
- Flight of the Conchords · Johnny Boy
- Hollywood Dreams · Rupert
- Sea of Dreams · Tomaso
- Beer League · Dirt
- Ray of Sunshine
- Edge of Outside · Self
- Heist · Pops
- The Tenants · Levenspiel
- Bye Bye Benjamin · Mr. Ruby
- Lonesome Jim · Don
- Circadian Rhythm · Hoover
- Before It Had a Name · Jeff
- The Wendell Baker Story · Boyd Fullbright
- This Is an Adventure · Self
- Bittersweet Place · Jack 'Pappy' Schaffer
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou · Esteban du Plantier
- Justice League Unlimited · Chuck Sirianni (Voice)
- Making 'Faces' · Self
- Stuck on You · Morty O'Reilly
- Passionada · Daniel Vargas
- A Good Night to Die · Guy
- Lucky
- Sonny · Albert
- The Burial Society · Sam Goldberg
- Manna from Heaven · Stanley
- Stealing Harvard · Uncle Jack
- The Biz · Eugene Hinkle
- The Man Who Wasn't There · Spectator at Execution (uncredited)
- The Royal Tenenbaums · Dusty
- The Cure for Boredom · Eddie
- 61* · Sam Simon
- A Nero Wolfe Mystery · Dazy Perrit, James Arthur Ferris
- Bartleby · Frank Waxman
- The Sleepy Time Gal · Bob
- Women of the Night · Sally
- Boston Public · Bernie Willis
- Animal Factory · Lt. Seeman
- A Constant Forge · Self
- Just One Night · Arthur Imperial
- The Crew · Tony 'Mouth' Donato
- The Making of 'Rushmore' · Self
- Black & White · Sal
- Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage · Self
- Kubanisch rauchen · Dragan
- Me and Will · Roy
- Ballad of the Nightingale · Jimmy
- Rushmore · Bert Fischer
- Stingers · Dino
- Emma's Wish · Harry Bridges (old)
- Snapped · Bob