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Seymour Joseph Cassel (born January 22, 1935) is an Academy Award-nominated American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

Cassel was born in Detroit, Michigan
Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
, the son of Pancretia Ann (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Kearney) and Seymour Joseph Cassel.

Cassel's early career was tied to fellow actor John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes

John Nicholas Cassavetes was an United Statesn actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in many Hollywood films, and is considered a pioneer of independent film....
. He made his movie debut in Cassavetes' first film, Shadows
Shadows (film)

Shadows is an improvisational film about interracial relations during the Beat Generation years in New York City, and was written and directed by John Cassavetes....
, on which he also served as associate producer. In 1961 he co-starred with Cassavetes in Too Late Blues
Too Late Blues

Too Late Blues is a 1962 in film John Cassavetes film that stars Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens, Vince Edwards, Seymour Cassel, and Everette Chambers....
 and 1962's The Webster Boy.






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Seymour Joseph Cassel (born January 22, 1935) is an Academy Award-nominated American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

Cassel was born in Detroit, Michigan
Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
, the son of Pancretia Ann (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Kearney) and Seymour Joseph Cassel.

Cassel's early career was tied to fellow actor John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes

John Nicholas Cassavetes was an United Statesn actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in many Hollywood films, and is considered a pioneer of independent film....
. He made his movie debut in Cassavetes' first film, Shadows
Shadows (film)

Shadows is an improvisational film about interracial relations during the Beat Generation years in New York City, and was written and directed by John Cassavetes....
, on which he also served as associate producer. In 1961 he co-starred with Cassavetes in Too Late Blues
Too Late Blues

Too Late Blues is a 1962 in film John Cassavetes film that stars Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens, Vince Edwards, Seymour Cassel, and Everette Chambers....
 and 1962's The Webster Boy. He also appeared in The Lloyd Bridges Show
The Lloyd Bridges Show

The Lloyd Bridges Show is a 34-episode anthology television series, television producer by Aaron Spelling, which aired on Columbia Broadcasting System from September 11, 1962, to May 28, 1963, starring and hosted by Lloyd Bridges , who had recently concluded a three-year stint as diver Mike Nelson in the Television syndication television seri...
 in an acclaimed episode "A Pair of Boots" directed by his friend Cassavetes. Cassel appeared on such popular programs as Twelve O'Clock High
Twelve O'Clock High (TV series)

Twelve O'Clock High or 12 O'Clock High is an United States military Dramatic programming that aired on American Broadcasting Corporation....
, Combat! and The F.B.I..

In 1968, Cassel was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 for his role as Chet in John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes

John Nicholas Cassavetes was an United Statesn actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in many Hollywood films, and is considered a pioneer of independent film....
's Faces
Faces (film)

Faces was a 1968 movie, directed by John Cassavetes and starring John Marley, Cassavetes' wife Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel and Lynn Carlin, who both received Academy Award nominations for this film....
. Cassel co-starred with Cassavetes in Nightside
Nightside

Nightside may refer to:*The Canadian late-night radio talk show The Nightside, hosted by Mark Elliot *NBC's now-defunct late night news program, comparable to ABC World News Now....
 and A Very Special Place. He had supporting roles in three more Cassavetes films: Minnie and Moskowitz
Minnie and Moskowitz

Minnie and Moskowitz is a film by John Cassavetes, starring his wife, Gena Rowlands, and actor Seymour Cassel in the title roles of Minnie and Moskowitz, respectively....
, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is a 1976 in film gangster film directed and written by John Cassavetes and starring Ben Gazzara.A rough and gritty film, it is comparable in form to Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and indeed Scorsese helped Cassavetes in its inception....
 and Opening Night
Opening Night

Opening Night is a drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. The film stars Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell, and Zohra Lampert....
. Having also appeared in major Hollywood productions such as Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy (film)

Dick Tracy is a 1990 film adaptation of the comic strip Dick Tracy created by Chester Gould. Warren Beatty directed, produced and starred. The supporting cast included Al Pacino, Madonna , Glenne Headly, Charlie Korsmo, Dick Van Dyke and Dustin Hoffman....
 and Indecent Proposal
Indecent Proposal

Indecent Proposal is a 1993 in film film drama directed by Adrian Lyne. It stars Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Seymour Cassel and Oliver Platt....
, Cassel has always been very supportive of the American independent film
Independent film

An independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced outside of the Hollywood studio system, a series of oligopolistic practices by several major film studios which controlled the production, distribution, and exhibition of films in the United States from the early 1920s through 1950s....
 community, especially in the wake of Cassavettes' death. Cassel had a small role in Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi

Steven Vincent "Steve" Buscemi is an United States character actor and film director....
's directorial debut Trees Lounge
Trees Lounge

Trees Lounge is the 1996 in film feature film debut as writer and director by Steve Buscemi. It was produced by Brad Wyman and Chris Hanley and features a large ensemble cast of actors, including Buscemi who would later direct HBO's The Sopranos....
 and appeared in three films by Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson

Wesley Wales Anderson is an United States Film director, scriptwriter, actor, and film producer of film, short subjects and Television commercial....
: Rushmore
Rushmore (film)

Rushmore is a 1998 in film comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson about an eccentric teenager named Max Fischer , his friendship with rich industrialist Herman Blume , and their mutual love for elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross ....
, The Royal Tenenbaums
The Royal Tenenbaums

The Royal Tenenbaums is a 2001 in film Comedy-drama dark comedy directed by Wes Anderson about three gifted siblings who experience great success in youth, and even greater disappointment and failure after their eccentricity father leaves them in their adolescent years....
 and The Life Aquatic. Cassel, appeared for four seasons in comedian, Tracey Ullman
Tracey Ullman

Tracey Ullman is an United Kingdom-United States actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, screenwriter and author.Her early appearances were on British TV sketch comedy shows A Kick Up the Eighties and Three of a Kind ....
's hit television series, Tracey Takes On...
Tracey Takes On...

Tracey Takes On... is an HBO sketch comedy series created by British-American comedian Tracey Ullman.In 1993, Ullman returned to television after her hit FOX comedy television program, The Tracey Ullman Show, was canceled, with two comedy specials for HBO....
.

In 2006, he co-starred in the NBC TV series, Heist
Heist (TV series)

Heist is an United States television series that premiered March 22, 2006, on NBC, but was almost immediately cancelled due to low Nielsen Ratings ....
. In September 2007, Cassell was a candidate for national president of the Screen Actors Guild
Screen Actors Guild

The Screen Actors Guild is an American trade union representing over 120,000 film and television actor and extra worldwide. According to SAG's Mission Statement, the Guild seeks to: negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements that establish equitable levels of compensation, benefits, and working conditions for its performers; col...
, along with Charley M. De La Peña, Alan Rosenberg
Alan Rosenberg

Alan Rosenberg is an American actor of both stage and screen, and current president of the Screen Actors Guild, the principal motion picture industry on-screen performers' union....
 (incumbent), and Barry Simmonds
Barry Simmonds

Born in the UK, Barry Simmonds was the Director of Football then interim coach of A-League Football team, New Zealand Knights....
.

In the 2007 Biography "Slash", the former Guns N' Roses guitarist a.k.a Saul Hudson and friend of Cassel's son, credited Cassel with giving him the nickname "Slash
Slash (musician)

Saul Hudson , more widely known by his stage name Slash, is a guitarist best known as the former lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses and as the current lead guitarist of Velvet Revolver....
" because he was always on the go and never sitting still.

Filmography

  • Shadows
    Shadows (film)

    Shadows is an improvisational film about interracial relations during the Beat Generation years in New York City, and was written and directed by John Cassavetes....
     (1959)
  • Faces
    Faces (film)

    Faces was a 1968 movie, directed by John Cassavetes and starring John Marley, Cassavetes' wife Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel and Lynn Carlin, who both received Academy Award nominations for this film....
     (1968)
  • Coogan's Bluff
    Coogan's Bluff (film)

    Coogan's Bluff is a 1968 in film Universal Studios film directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Don Stroud, and Susan Clark....
     (1968)
  • The Revolutionary (1970)
  • Minnie and Moskowitz
    Minnie and Moskowitz

    Minnie and Moskowitz is a film by John Cassavetes, starring his wife, Gena Rowlands, and actor Seymour Cassel in the title roles of Minnie and Moskowitz, respectively....
     (1971)
  • The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
    The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

    The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is a 1976 in film gangster film directed and written by John Cassavetes and starring Ben Gazzara.A rough and gritty film, it is comparable in form to Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and indeed Scorsese helped Cassavetes in its inception....
     (1976)
  • Black Oak Conspiracy (1977)
  • Opening Night
    Opening Night

    Opening Night is a drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. The film stars Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell, and Zohra Lampert....
     (1978)
  • California Dreaming (1978)
  • Convoy
    Convoy (film)

    Convoy is a 1978 in film action film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine and Burt Young....
     (1978)
  • Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
    Mr. Mike's Mondo Video

    Mr. Mike's Mondo Video was a 1979 in film movie conceived by Saturday Night Live writer/featured player Michael O'Donoghue.Mondo Video was a spoof of the controversial 1962 in film documentary Mondo Cane, showing people doing weird stunts....
     (1979)
  • Sunburn
    Sunburn (film)

    Sunburn is an detective fiction-comedy film made in 1979 based on the novel The Blind by Stanley Ellin. It was directed by Richard C. Sarafian....
     (1979)
  • King of The Mountain
    King of The Mountain (film)

    King Of The Mountain is a 1981 motion picture starring Harry Hamlin, Joseph Bottoms, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Richard Cox , Seymour Cassel and Dennis Hopper about a group that race their automobile up and down Mulholland Drive for both money and prestige....
     (1981)
  • Love Streams
    Love Streams

    Love Streams is an 1984 American film by John Cassavetes that tells the story of a middle-aged brother and sister who find themselves caring for one another after the other loves in their lives abandon them....
     (1984)
  • Episode: The Child
  • Eye of the Tiger
    Eye of the Tiger (film)

    Eye of the Tiger is a 1986 in film Action movie/drama film film, starring Gary Busey, Yaphet Kotto, Denise Galik-Furey, Seymour Cassel, William Smith and Judith Barsi....
     (1986)
  • Plain Clothes
    Plain Clothes (1988 film)

    Plain Clothes is a 1988 comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge. The film stars Arliss Howard and was released by Paramount Pictures. As of 2008, it is only available on VHS....
     (1988
    1988 in film

    Events* Michael Jackson's first film was MoonwalkerTop grossing films source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm...
    )
  • Wicked Stepmother
    Wicked Stepmother

    Wicked Stepmother is a 1989 United States comedy film written, produced, and directed by Larry Cohen. It is best known for being the last film of Bette Davis, who withdrew from the project after filming began, citing major problems with the script and the way she was being photographed....
     (1989)
  • Dick Tracy
    Dick Tracy

    File:Dicktracy10121941.jpgDick Tracy is a long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in United States pop culture. Dick Tracy is a hard-hitting, fast-shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of colorful List of Dick Tracy villain debutss, many based o...
     (1990)
  • White Fang
    White Fang (1991 film)

    White Fang is a 1991 in film film directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Seymour Cassel, Ethan Hawke, and Klaus Maria Brandauer. Based on the novel White Fang by Jack London, it tells the story of the friendship between a Yukon gold hunter and a wolfdog....
     (1991)
  • In the Soup
    In the Soup

    In the Soup is a 1992 in film independent film comedy directed by Alexandre Rockwell. It stars Steve Buscemi as a screenwriter who has written an unfilmable 500-page screenplay and is looking for a producer....
     (1992)
  • Honeymoon in Vegas
    Honeymoon in Vegas

    Honeymoon in Vegas is a 1992 comedy movie directed by Andrew Bergman and starring Nicolas Cage, James Caan, and Sarah Jessica Parker....
     (1992)
  • Indecent Proposal
    Indecent Proposal

    Indecent Proposal is a 1993 in film film drama directed by Adrian Lyne. It stars Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Seymour Cassel and Oliver Platt....
     (1993)
  • Tracey Takes On...
    Tracey Takes On...

    Tracey Takes On... is an HBO sketch comedy series created by British-American comedian Tracey Ullman.In 1993, Ullman returned to television after her hit FOX comedy television program, The Tracey Ullman Show, was canceled, with two comedy specials for HBO....
  • Trees Lounge
    Trees Lounge

    Trees Lounge is the 1996 in film feature film debut as writer and director by Steve Buscemi. It was produced by Brad Wyman and Chris Hanley and features a large ensemble cast of actors, including Buscemi who would later direct HBO's The Sopranos....
     (1996)
  • Obsession (1997 German TV)
  • Rushmore
    Rushmore (film)

    Rushmore is a 1998 in film comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson about an eccentric teenager named Max Fischer , his friendship with rich industrialist Herman Blume , and their mutual love for elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross ....
     (1998)
  • The Last Home Run
    The Last Home Run

    The Last Home Run is a 1998 film directed by Bob Gosse.It tells the story of Jonathan Lyle, an elderly man in a nursing home who is transformed by a mystic, for five days, into a 12-year-old boy playing Little League Baseball....
     (1998)
  • The Crew (2000)
  • 61*
    61*

    61* is an American baseball movie, made for HBO, directed by Billy Crystal and written by Hank Steinberg. The film was first released on April 28, 2001....
     (2001)
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
    The Royal Tenenbaums

    The Royal Tenenbaums is a 2001 in film Comedy-drama dark comedy directed by Wes Anderson about three gifted siblings who experience great success in youth, and even greater disappointment and failure after their eccentricity father leaves them in their adolescent years....
     (2001)
  • Con Man
    Con Man

    Con Man may refer to:* Con Man, a.k.a. Freelance , starring Ian McShane* Con Man , documentary on James Hogue , American impostor* "The Con Man" , American wrestler Robert Conway...
     (2002)
  • The Burial Society
    The Burial Society

    The Burial Society is a 2002 in film is a neo-noir Thriller film written and directed by Nicholas Racz. The film stars Rob LaBelle, Jan Rubes, Allan Rich, Bill Meilen, Seymour Cassel, and David Paymer....
     (2002)
  • Passionada
    Passionada

    Passionada is a 2002 romantic comedy film. It is directed by Dan Ireland and stars Jason Isaacs, Sofia Milos and Emmy Rossum, co-starring Seymour Cassel and Theresa Russell....
     (2002)
  • Stealing Harvard
    Stealing Harvard

    Stealing Harvard is a 2002 in film crime film-comedy film, directed by Bruce McCulloch, about a man who resorts to crime to pay for his niece's Harvard University tuition....
     (2002)
  • Stuck on You
    Stuck on you

    "stuck on you" is Yuna Ito's fourth single since her debut. This is her first single since her largely successful May 2006 single "Precious" and her first single in which the main track is not a ballad....
     (2003)
  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

    The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is Wes Anderson's fourth feature length film, released in the United States on December 25 2004. It was written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach and was filmed in and around Naples, Ponza and the Italian Riviera....
     (2004)
  • Thanksgiving
    Thanksgiving (2004 film)

    Thanksgiving is an American Short film released in 2004. It was directed by Tom Donahue and starred Yolonda Ross, William Mahoney and James Urbaniak....
     (2004)
  • The Wendell Baker Story
    The Wendell Baker Story

    The Wendell Baker Story is the first movie film director by actor Luke Wilson and his eldest brother Andrew Wilson , which premiered at the 2005 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas in March, 2005 in film....
     (2005)
  • Artie Lange's Beer League
    Beer League

    Artie Lange's Beer League is a 2006 in film movie written, produced, and starring Artie Lange. It was released in selected theaters on September 15, 2006 in the New Jersey, New York, Cleveland, and Philadelphia areas....
     (2006)
  • Postal
    Postal (film)

    Postal is a 2007 in film satire comedy film/action film co-written and directed by Uwe Boll.Like the majority of Boll's previous films, Postal is a film adaptation of a video game, this time Running With Scissors, Inc....
     (2007)
  • Reach for Me (2008)
  • Chasing 3000
    Chasing 3000

    Chasing 3000 is a 2008 in film film chronicling the cross-country travel of two boys to see the 3,000th base hit of Major League Baseball legend Roberto Clemente....
     (2008)
  • Irene in Time
    Irene in Time

    Irene in Time is an upcoming United States independent film directed by Henry Jaglom, scheduled for a 2009 release . It will mark the second collaboration between director Jaglom and his prot?g?, actress Tanna Frederick, whom also starred in Hollywood Dreams, Jaglom's 2006 film....
     (2008)


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