Seymour Cassel
Born January 22, 1935 (Age: 91)
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Detroit, Michigan, USA
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).
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).
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Filmography
L!fe Happens
2011
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as Pop Pop
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Age: 76
Postal
2007
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as Paul
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Age: 72
Beer League
2006
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as Dirt
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Age: 71
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004
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as Esteban du Plantier
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Age: 69
Stuck on You
2003
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as Morty O'Reilly
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Age: 68
Sonny
2002
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as Albert
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Age: 67
Manna from Heaven
2002
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as Stanley
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Age: 67
Stealing Harvard
2002
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as Uncle Jack
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Age: 67
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
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as Spectator at Execution (uncredited)
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Age: 66
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
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as Dusty
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Age: 66
Animal Factory
2000
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as Lt. Seeman
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Age: 65
A Constant Forge
2000
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as Self
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Age: 65
Just One Night
2000
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as Arthur Imperial
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Age: 65
The Crew
2000
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as Tony 'Mouth' Donato
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Age: 65
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
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as Self
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Age: 65
Rushmore
1998
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as Bert Fischer
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Age: 63
This World, Then the Fireworks
1997
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as Detective Harris
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Age: 62
Chameleon
1996
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as Francis
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Age: 61
No Image
Turnpike
1996
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as Older man
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Age: 61
Seed
1996
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as First Client
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Age: 60
Dead Presidents
1995
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as Saul
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Age: 60
Imaginary Crimes
1994
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as Eddie
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Age: 59
There Goes My Baby
1994
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as Pop
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Age: 59
It Could Happen to You
1994
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as Jack Gross
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Age: 59
Chasers
1994
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as Master Chief Bogg
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Age: 59
Boiling Point
1993
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as Virgil Leach
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Age: 58
Indecent Proposal
1993
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as Mr. Shackleford
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Age: 58
In the Soup
1992
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as Joe
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Age: 57
Honeymoon in Vegas
1992
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as Tony Cataracts
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Age: 57
Diary of a Hitman
1991
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as Koenig
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Age: 56
Mobsters
1991
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as Father Bonotto
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Age: 56
White Fang
1991
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as Skunker
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Age: 55
Dick Tracy
1990
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as Sam Catchem
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Age: 55
Track 29
1988
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as Dr. Bernard Fairmont
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Age: 53
Plain Clothes
1988
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as Ed Malmburg
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Age: 53
Colors
1988
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as Sullivan
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Age: 53
Johnny Be Good
1988
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as Wallace Gibson
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Age: 53
Best Seller
1987
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as Carter
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Age: 52
King of the Mountain
1981
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as Barry Tanner
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Age: 46
The Jazz Singer
1980
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as Unnamed
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Age: 45
Convoy
1978
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as Governor Haskins
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Age: 43
Coogan's Bluff
1968
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as Young Hood
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Age: 33
The Webster Boy
1962
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as Vic
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Age: 27
Too Late Blues
1961
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as Red
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Age: 26
Juke Box Racket
1960
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as Seymour
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Age: 25