Seymour Cassel

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).

Filmography (203 Appearances)

Every Night's a Saturday Night

2018

Lucky Dog

2014

The Dependables

2014

Fort McCoy

2014

At The Maple Grove

2014

The Secret Lives of Dorks

2013

Booster

2012

Broken Kingdom

2012

Lost Angeles

2012

Kingdom Come

2012

Pass the Salt, Please

2012

Magic City

2012

Silver Case

2012

Faces

2011

Freerunner

2011

L!fe Happens

2011

Without Borders

2010

Pete Smalls Is Dead

2010

Back Nine

2010

Regular Show

2010

The Aristofrogs

2010

Chasing 3000

2010

Staten Island

2009

Not Dead Yet

2009

To Love and Die

2008

To Love and Die

2008

Reach for Me

2008

Beau Jest

2008

Big Heart City

2008

Cosmic Radio

2007

Postal

2007

Flight of the Conchords

2007

Hollywood Dreams

2007

Sea of Dreams

2006

Beer League

2006

Ray of Sunshine

2006

Edge of Outside

2006

Heist

2006

The Tenants

2006

Bye Bye Benjamin

2006

Lonesome Jim

2005

Circadian Rhythm

2005

Before It Had a Name

2005

The Wendell Baker Story

2005

This Is an Adventure

2005

Bittersweet Place

2005

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

2004

Justice League Unlimited

2004

Making 'Faces'

2004

Stuck on You

2003

Passionada

2003

A Good Night to Die

2003

Lucky

2003

Sonny

2002

The Burial Society

2002

Manna from Heaven

2002

Stealing Harvard

2002

The Biz

2002

The Man Who Wasn't There

2001

The Royal Tenenbaums

2001

The Cure for Boredom

2001

61*

2001

A Nero Wolfe Mystery

2001

Bartleby

2001

The Sleepy Time Gal

2001

Women of the Night

2001

Boston Public

2000

Animal Factory

2000

A Constant Forge

2000

Just One Night

2000

The Crew

2000

The Making of 'Rushmore'

2000

Black & White

1999

Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage

1999

Kubanisch rauchen

1999

Me and Will

1999

Ballad of the Nightingale

1999

Rushmore

1998

Stingers

1998

Emma's Wish

1998

Snapped

1998

The Treat

1998

Hoods

1998

Relax... It's Just Sex

1998

Johnny 316

1998

Motel Blue

1997

Obsession

1997

This World, Then the Fireworks

1997

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

1997

The Last Don

1997

Chameleon

1996

Dead Girl

1996

Turnpike

1996

The Last Home Run

1996

Slaughter of the Cock

1996

Arli$$

1996

Cannes Man

1996

Trees Lounge

1996

Things I Never Told You

1996

Dream for an Insomniac

1996

Good Company

1996

John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All

1996

Tracey Takes On...

1996

Seed

1996

Dead Presidents

1995

Ouf!

1994

Tollbooth

1994

Imaginary Crimes

1994

Hand Gun

1994

Chicago Hope

1994

Under Suspicion

1994

There Goes My Baby

1994

Dark Side of Genius

1994

It Could Happen to You

1994

Chasers

1994

Partners

1993

When Pigs Fly

1993

Anything for John

1993

Chain of Desire

1993

Boiling Point

1993

Indecent Proposal

1993

Trouble Bound

1993

Adventures in Spying

1992

In the Soup

1992

Honeymoon in Vegas

1992

Love Is Like That

1992

Cold Heaven

1992

What Happened to Pete

1992

Face of a Stranger

1991

Dead in the Water

1991

Diary of a Hitman

1991

Mobsters

1991

White Fang

1991

Cold Dog Soup

1990

Dick Tracy

1990

Sweet Bird of Youth

1989

Arena - John Cassavetes

1989

Wicked Stepmother

1989

Track 29

1988

Colors

1988

Plain Clothes

1988

Johnny Be Good

1988

Survival Game

1987

Star Trek: The Next Generation

1987

Best Seller

1987

Tin Men

1987

Eye of the Tiger

1986

Beverly Hills Madam

1986

Matlock

1986

Tales from the Darkside

1984

I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work

1984

Young Lust: A Soap Opera

1984

Love Streams

1984

I Want to Live

1983

Double Exposure

1982

King of the Mountain

1981

The Jazz Singer

1980

The Mountain Men

1980

Angel on My Shoulder

1980

Sunburn

1979

Ravagers

1979

California Dreaming

1979

Convoy

1978

Opening Night

1977

Valentino

1977

Death Game

1977

Black Oak Conspiracy

1977

Scott Joplin

1977

The Last Tycoon

1976

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

1976

Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight

1975

Nightside

1973

Emergency!

1972

Minnie and Moskowitz

1971

The Revolutionary

1970

Faces

1968

Coogan's Bluff

1968

Cimarron Strip

1967

The Invaders

1967

Batman

1966

The F.B.I.

1965

Laredo

1965

The Hanged Man

1964

12 O'Clock High

1964

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1964

The Killers

1964

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963

Burke's Law

1963

The Fugitive

1963

The Nutty Professor

1963

Combat!

1962

The Lloyd Bridges Show

1962

The Webster Boy

1962

Too Late Blues

1961

Alcoa Premiere

1961

Shadows

1960

My Three Sons

1960

Murder, Inc.

1960

Juke Box Racket

1960

Man on a String

1960 Debut

The Twilight Zone

1959

Naked City

1958

Wagon Train

1957
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