Seymour Cassel
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1935-01-22
Day of Death
2019-04-07 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Seymour Cassel
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
Acting
(2020)
Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet
as Cancelled
(2018)
(2014)
Lucky Dog
as The Real Spencer
(2014)
The Dependables
as Dominic Ackers
(2014)
Fort McCoy
as Father Mivkovek
(2014)
At The Maple Grove
as Boyle
(2013)
The Secret Lives of Dorks
as Principal
(2012)
Silver Case
as Dealer
(2012)
Kingdom Come
as Self
(2012)
Lost Angeles
as Film Critic
(2012)
Broken Kingdom
as Clayton
(2012)
Booster
as Harold
(2012)
Pass the Salt, Please
as Man
(2011)
L!fe Happens
as Pop Pop
(2011)
Freerunner
as Grampa
(2011)
Faces
as Chet (archive footage)
(2010)
Pete Smalls Is Dead
as Saco
(2010)
Chasing 3000
as Poppy
(2010)
Without Borders
as Detective McKenneth
(2010)
(2010)
Back Nine
as Mondo
(2009)
Staten Island
as Jasper Sabiano
(2009)
Not Dead Yet
as Francis
(2008)
Reach for Me
as Alvin
(2008)
Beau Jest
as Abe Goldman
(2008)
To Love and Die
as Grandfather
(2008)
Big city Heart
as Larry
(2007)
Postal
as Paul
(2007)
Cosmic Radio
as Malcolm Stone
(2007)
Hollywood Dreams
as Rupert
(2006)
Beer League
as Dirt
(2006)
The Tenants
as Levenspiel
(2006)
Edge of Outside
as Self
(2006)
Bye Bye Benjamin
as Mr. Ruby
(2006)
(2006)
(2005)
Lonesome Jim
as Don
(2005)
The Wendell Baker Story
as Boyd Fullbright
(2005)
Before It Had a Name
as Jeff
(2005)
This Is an Adventure
as Self
(2005)
Bittersweet Place
as Jack 'Pappy' Schaffer
(2005)
Circadian Rhythm
as Hoover
(2004)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
as Esteban du Plantier
(2004)
Making 'Faces'
as Self
(2003)
Stuck on You
as Morty O'Reilly
(2003)
Passionada
as Daniel Vargas
(2003)
A Good Night to Die
as Guy
(2002)
Stealing Harvard
as Uncle Jack
(2002)
Sonny
as Albert
(2002)
Manna from Heaven
as Stanley
(2002)
The Burial Society
as Sam Goldberg
(2002)
The Biz
as Eugene Hinkle
(2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums
as Dusty
(2001)
The Man Who Wasn't There
as Spectator at Execution (uncredited)
(2001)
61*
as Sam Simon
(2001)
Bartleby
as Frank Waxman
(2001)
Women of the Night
as Sally
(2001)
The Sleepy Time Gal
as Bob
(2001)
The Cure for Boredom
as Eddie
(2000)
Animal Factory
as Lt. Seeman
(2000)
The Crew
as Tony 'Mouth' Donato
(2000)
A Constant Forge
as Self
(2000)
Just One Night
as Arthur Imperial
(2000)
The Making of 'Rushmore'
as Self
(1999)
Me and Will
as Roy
(1999)
Black & White
as Sal
(1999)
Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
as Self
(1999)
Ballad of the Nightingale
as Jimmy
(1999)
Kubanisch rauchen
as Dragan
(1998)
Rushmore
as Bert Fischer
(1998)
Hoods
as Pop Martinelli (uncredited)
(1998)
Relax... It's Just Sex
as Emile Pillsbury
(1998)
Johnny 316
as Store Keeper
(1998)
Emma's Wish
as Harry Bridges (old)
(1998)
The Treat
as Chip O'Herlihee
(1998)
Stingers
as Dino
(1998)
Snapped
as Bob
(1997)
Cannes Man
as Sy Lerner
(1997)
Obsession
as Jacob Frischmuth
(1997)
This World, Then the Fireworks
as Detective Harris
(1997)
Motel Blue
as Capistrano Minister
(1997)
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
as Self
(1996)
Trees Lounge
as Uncle Al
(1996)
Dream for an Insomniac
as Uncle Leo
(1996)
Things I Never Told You
as Frank
(1996)
Dead Girl
as Ira Golub
(1996)
The Last Home Run
as Older Jonathan
(1996)
(1996)
Seed
as First Client
(1996)
Chameleon
as Francis
(1996)
Slaughter of the Cock
as Ahilleas
(1996)
Turnpike
as Older man
(1995)
Dead Presidents
as Saul
(1994)
It Could Happen to You
as Jack Gross
(1994)
Chasers
as Master Chief Bogg
(1994)
Imaginary Crimes
as Eddie
(1994)
There Goes My Baby
as Pop
(1994)
Tollbooth
as Leon / Larry
(1994)
Hand Gun
as Jack McCallister
(1994)
Dark Side of Genius
as Samuel Rourke
(1994)
(1993)
Indecent Proposal
as Mr. Shackleford
(1993)
Boiling Point
as Virgil Leach
(1993)
Trouble Bound
as Santino
(1993)
Partners
as Janitor
(1993)
When Pigs Fly
as Frank
(1993)
Anything for John
as Self
(1992)
Honeymoon in Vegas
as Tony Cataracts
(1992)
In the Soup
as Joe
(1992)
Chain of Desire
as Mel
(1992)
Cold Heaven
as Tom Farrelly
(1992)
Love Is Like That
as Uncle Bud
(1992)
Adventures in Spying
as Ray Rucker
(1992)
What Happened to Pete
as Bartender
(1991)
White Fang
as Skunker
(1991)
Mobsters
as Father Bonotto
(1991)
Diary of a Hitman
as Koenig
(1991)
Dead in the Water
as Lt. Frank Vaness
(1991)
Face of a Stranger
as Ralph
(1990)
Dick Tracy
as Sam Catchem
(1990)
Cold Dog Soup
as Jojo
(1989)
Wicked Stepmother
as Feldshine
(1989)
Sweet Bird of Youth
as Hatcher
(1989)
Arena - John Cassavetes
as Self
(1988)
Track 29
as Dr. Bernard Fairmont
(1988)
Colors
as Sullivan
(1988)
Johnny Be Good
as Wallace Gibson
(1988)
Plain Clothes
as Ed Malmburg
(1987)
Best Seller
as Carter
(1987)
Tin Men
as Cheese
(1987)
Survival Game
as Dave Forrest
(1986)
Eye of the Tiger
as Sheriff
(1986)
Beverly Hills Madam
as Tony
(1984)
Young Lust: A Soap Opera
as Dr. Klapper
(1984)
Love Streams
as Jack Lawson
(1984)
(1983)
I Want to Live
as John Santo
(1982)
Double Exposure
as Dr. Frank Curtis
(1981)
King of the Mountain
as Barry Tanner
(1980)
The Mountain Men
as La Bont
(1980)
The Jazz Singer
as Unnamed
(1980)
Angel on My Shoulder
as Smiley Mitchell
(1979)
Sunburn
as Dobbs
(1979)
California Dreaming
as Duke Slusarski
(1979)
Ravagers
as Blind Lawyer
(1978)
Convoy
as Governor Haskins
(1977)
Valentino
as George Ullman
(1977)
Opening Night
as Self (uncredited)
(1977)
Death Game
as George Manning
(1977)
Black Oak Conspiracy
as Homer Metcalf
(1977)
Scott Joplin
as Dr. Jaelki
(1976)
The Last Tycoon
as Seal Trainer
(1976)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
as Mort Weil
(1975)
Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
as Wise Guy
(1973)
Nightside
as Ralph
(1971)
Minnie and Moskowitz
as Seymour Moskowitz
(1970)
The Revolutionary
as Leonard II
(1968)
Coogan's Bluff
as Young Hood
(1968)
Faces
as Chet
(1964)
The Killers
as Postal Clerk
(1964)
The Hanged Man
as Bellboy
(1963)
The Nutty Professor
as Bored Man
(1962)
The Webster Boy
as Vic
(1961)
Too Late Blues
as Red
(1960)
Murder, Inc.
as Teenager
(1960)
Shadows
as Al (uncredited)
(1960)
(1960)
Juke Box Racket
as Seymour
Crew
(1960)
Shadows
Associate Producer