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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 22, 1935
Died
April 7, 2019
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Seymour Cassel
0.8 Popularity
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
8.0
Self
Every Night's a Saturday Night
2018
3.5
The Real Spencer
Lucky Dog
2014
3.1
Dominic Ackers
The Dependables
2014
5.6
Father Mivkovek
Fort McCoy
2014
0.0
Boyle
At The Maple Grove
2014
4.9
Principal
The Secret Lives of Dorks
2013
4.7
Harold
Booster
2012
6.3
Clayton
Broken Kingdom
2012
1.0
Film Critic
Lost Angeles
2012
6.2
Self
Kingdom Come
2012
Credits
Every Night's a Saturday Night
as Self
2018
8.0
Lucky Dog
as The Real Spencer
2014
3.5
The Dependables
as Dominic Ackers
2014
3.1
Fort McCoy
as Father Mivkovek
2014
5.6
At The Maple Grove
as Boyle
2014
0.0
The Secret Lives of Dorks
as Principal
2013
4.9
Booster
as Harold
2012
4.7
Broken Kingdom
as Clayton
2012
6.3
Lost Angeles
as Film Critic
2012
1.0
Kingdom Come
as Self
2012
6.2
🎬
Pass the Salt, Please
as Man
2012
0.0
Magic City
2012
6.9
Silver Case
as Dealer
2012
4.8
Faces
as Chet (archive footage)
2011
0.0
Freerunner
as Grampa
2011
4.5
L!fe Happens
as Pop Pop
2011
5.4
Without Borders
as Detective McKenneth
2010
4.0
Pete Smalls Is Dead
as Saco
2010
4.6
🎬
Back Nine
as Mondo
2010
5.0
Regular Show
as Tony (voice)
2010
8.6
The Aristofrogs
2010
0.0
Chasing 3000
as Poppy
2010
6.0
Staten Island
as Jasper Sabiano
2009
6.0
🎬
Not Dead Yet
as Francis
2009
0.0
🎬
To Love and Die
2008
0.0
To Love and Die
as Grandfather
2008
5.7
Reach for Me
as Alvin
2008
2.8
Beau Jest
as Abe Goldman
2008
2.0
🎬
Big Heart City
as Larry
2008
0.0
Cosmic Radio
as Malcolm Stone
2007
1.5
Postal
as Paul
2007
4.6
Flight of the Conchords
as Johnny Boy
2007
7.9
Hollywood Dreams
as Rupert
2007
2.4
Sea of Dreams
2006
5.3
Beer League
as Dirt
2006
5.1
Ray of Sunshine
2006
0.0
Edge of Outside
as Self
2006
5.8
Heist
2006
6.8
The Tenants
as Levenspiel
2006
4.7
Bye Bye Benjamin
as Mr. Ruby
2006
0.0
Lonesome Jim
as Don
2005
6.0
Circadian Rhythm
as Hoover
2005
2.7
Before It Had a Name
as Jeff
2005
3.3
The Wendell Baker Story
as Boyd Fullbright
2005
5.0
This Is an Adventure
as Self
2005
6.5
Bittersweet Place
as Jack 'Pappy' Schaffer
2005
7.0
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
as Esteban du Plantier
2004
7.1
Justice League Unlimited
as Chuck Sirianni (voice)
2004
8.3
Making 'Faces'
as Self
2004
0.0
Stuck on You
as Morty O'Reilly
2003
5.3
Passionada
as Daniel Vargas
2003
7.0
A Good Night to Die
as Guy
2003
2.4
Lucky
2003
0.0
Sonny
as Albert
2002
5.0
The Burial Society
as Sam Goldberg
2002
5.3
Manna from Heaven
as Stanley
2002
0.0
Stealing Harvard
as Uncle Jack
2002
4.8
The Biz
as Eugene Hinkle
2002
0.0
The Man Who Wasn't There
as Spectator at Execution (uncredited)
2001
7.5
The Royal Tenenbaums
as Dusty
2001
7.5
The Cure for Boredom
as Eddie
2001
10.0
61*
as Sam Simon
2001
7.0
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
as Dazy Perrit
2001
7.8
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
as James Arthur Ferris
2001
7.8
Bartleby
as Frank Waxman
2001
5.8
The Sleepy Time Gal
as Bob
2001
5.1
Women of the Night
as Sally
2001
3.8
Boston Public
as Bernie Willis
2000
7.6
Animal Factory
as Lt. Seeman
2000
6.3
A Constant Forge
as Self
2000
6.6
Just One Night
as Arthur Imperial
2000
5.0
The Crew
as Tony 'Mouth' Donato
2000
5.2
The Making of 'Rushmore'
as Self
2000
6.0
Black & White
as Sal
1999
5.2
Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
as Self
1999
7.0
Kubanisch rauchen
as Dragan
1999
4.0
Me and Will
as Roy
1999
5.2
Ballad of the Nightingale
as Jimmy
1999
3.3
Rushmore
as Bert Fischer
1998
7.4
Stingers
as Dino
1998
0.0
Emma's Wish
as Harry Bridges (old)
1998
3.8
Snapped
as Bob
1998
4.7
The Treat
as Chip O'Herlihee
1998
2.8
Hoods
as Pop Martinelli (uncredited)
1998
6.6
Relax... It's Just Sex
as Emile Pillsbury
1998
5.6
Johnny 316
as Store Keeper
1998
5.5
Motel Blue
as Capistrano Minister
1997
3.3
Obsession
as Jacob Frischmuth
1997
3.8
This World, Then the Fireworks
as Detective Harris
1997
5.0
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
as Self
1997
6.6
The Last Don
as Alfred Gronevelt
1997
7.1
Chameleon
as Francis
1996
4.7
Dead Girl
as Ira Golub
1996
4.4
🎬
Turnpike
as Older man
1996
0.0
The Last Home Run
as Older Jonathan
1996
3.0
🎬
Slaughter of the Cock
as Ahilleas
1996
1.7
Cannes Man
as Sy Lerner
1996
5.2
Trees Lounge
as Uncle Al
1996
6.9
Things I Never Told You
as Frank
1996
5.3
Dream for an Insomniac
as Uncle Leo
1996
5.0
🎬
Good Company
1996
0.0
🎬
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
as Self
1996
0.0
Tracey Takes On...
as Candy Casino
1996
8.5
Seed
as First Client
1996
0.0
Dead Presidents
as Saul
1995
6.7
🎬
Tollbooth
as Leon / Larry
1994
4.7
🎬
Ouf!
1994
0.0
Imaginary Crimes
as Eddie
1994
6.3
Hand Gun
as Jack McCallister
1994
4.7
Chicago Hope
as Norman Cambridge
1994
7.2
Under Suspicion
as Lt. Mickey Schwartz
1994
7.5
There Goes My Baby
as Pop
1994
6.1
Dark Side of Genius
as Samuel Rourke
1994
4.6
It Could Happen to You
as Jack Gross
1994
6.7
Chasers
as Master Chief Bogg
1994
5.4
🎬
Partners
as Janitor
1993
4.4
When Pigs Fly
as Frank
1993
5.1
Anything for John
as Self
1993
6.0
Boiling Point
as Virgil Leach
1993
4.9
Indecent Proposal
as Mr. Shackleford
1993
6.4
Trouble Bound
as Santino
1993
5.9
Adventures in Spying
as Ray Rucker
1992
2.0
In the Soup
as Joe
1992
6.5
Honeymoon in Vegas
as Tony Cataracts
1992
5.6
Love Is Like That
as Uncle Bud
1992
4.6
Cold Heaven
as Tom Farrelly
1992
4.3
Chain of Desire
as Mel
1992
4.0
What Happened to Pete
as Bartender
1992
0.0
Face of a Stranger
as Ralph
1991
10.0
Dead in the Water
as Lt. Frank Vaness
1991
5.2
Diary of a Hitman
as Koenig
1991
5.1
Mobsters
as Father Bonotto
1991
6.2
White Fang
as Skunker
1991
6.7
Cold Dog Soup
as Jojo
1990
4.9
Dick Tracy
as Sam Catchem
1990
6.1
Sweet Bird of Youth
as Hatcher
1989
5.4
🎬
Arena - John Cassavetes
as Self
1989
0.0
Wicked Stepmother
as Feldshine
1989
4.5
Track 29
as Dr. Bernard Fairmont
1988
5.4
Colors
as Sullivan
1988
6.5
Plain Clothes
as Ed Malmburg
1988
5.8
Johnny Be Good
as Wallace Gibson
1988
4.5
Survival Game
as Dave Forrest
1987
4.0
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Lt. Cmdr. Hester Dealt
1987
8.4
Best Seller
as Carter
1987
5.9
Tin Men
as Cheese
1987
6.3
Eye of the Tiger
as Sheriff
1986
6.0
Beverly Hills Madam
as Tony
1986
4.1
Matlock
as Dick Silvers
1986
7.1
Matlock
as Honest Earl Edwards
1986
7.1
Tales from the Darkside
as Howard
1984
7.2
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
as Self
1984
8.4
Young Lust: A Soap Opera
as Dr. Klapper
1984
1.0
Love Streams
as Jack Lawson
1984
7.2
I Want to Live
as John Santo
1983
3.0
Double Exposure
as Dr. Frank Curtis
1982
4.2
King of the Mountain
as Barry Tanner
1981
5.5
The Jazz Singer
as Unnamed
1980
5.9
The Mountain Men
as La Bont
1980
5.9
Angel on My Shoulder
as Smiley Mitchell
1980
6.0
Sunburn
as Dobbs
1979
4.9
Ravagers
as Blind Lawyer
1979
4.3
California Dreaming
as Duke Slusarski
1979
4.4
Convoy
as Governor Haskins
1978
6.3
Opening Night
as Self (uncredited)
1977
7.6
Valentino
as George Ullman
1977
5.7
Death Game
as George Manning
1977
5.7
Black Oak Conspiracy
as Homer Metcalf
1977
5.0
Scott Joplin
as Dr. Jaelki
1977
6.1
The Last Tycoon
as Seal Trainer
1976
6.3
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
as Mort Weil
1976
7.0
Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
as Wise Guy
1975
4.0
Nightside
as Ralph
1973
0.0
Emergency!
as Bluebell Hunter
1972
7.8
Minnie and Moskowitz
as Seymour Moskowitz
1971
6.6
The Revolutionary
as Leonard II
1970
5.0
Faces
as Chet
1968
7.1
Coogan's Bluff
as Young Hood
1968
6.3
Cimarron Strip
1967
5.5
The Invaders
as Driver
1967
6.8
Batman
as Cancelled
1966
7.3
The F.B.I.
as Irwin
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as P.O.W. Vanndo
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Attendant
1965
5.4
Laredo
1965
6.3
The Hanged Man
as Bellboy
1964
4.6
12 O'Clock High
as Capt. Johnson
1964
7.2
12 O'Clock High
as B-17 Pilot
1964
7.2
12 O'Clock High
as Captain Johnson
1964
7.2
12 O'Clock High
as Left Waist Gunner
1964
7.2
12 O'Clock High
as Mechanic
1964
7.2
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Jensen
1964
7.7
The Killers
as Postal Clerk
1964
6.9
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Police Sgt.
1963
5.7
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Somebody
1963
5.7
Burke's Law
as Attendant
1963
6.0
The Fugitive
as Cabbie
1963
7.2
The Nutty Professor
as Bored Man
1963
6.5
Combat!
as Doctor
1962
7.7
The Lloyd Bridges Show
as Lawyer #2
1962
5.0
The Lloyd Bridges Show
as Richard
1962
5.0
The Webster Boy
as Vic
1962
0.0
Too Late Blues
as Red
1961
6.4
Alcoa Premiere
as The Wounded Man
1961
5.0
Shadows
as Al (uncredited)
1960
6.9
My Three Sons
as Coach Gregson
1960
6.5
Murder, Inc.
as Teenager
1960
6.4
Juke Box Racket
as Seymour
1960
6.0
Man on a String
1960
6.0
The Twilight Zone
as Jerry (uncredited)
1959
8.5
Naked City
as Student (uncredited)
1958
5.5
Wagon Train
as Ed
1957
6.6