Seymour Cassel
Born: 1935-01-22 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Died: 2019-04-07
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2018
- Every Night's a Saturday Night as Self
2014
- The Dependables as Dominic Ackers
- Lucky Dog as The Real Spencer
- At The Maple Grove as Boyle
- Fort McCoy as Father Mivkovek
2013
- The Secret Lives of Dorks as Principal
2012
- Magic City
- Silver Case as Dealer
- Broken Kingdom as Clayton
- Booster as Harold
- Lost Angeles as Film Critic
- Kingdom Come as Self
- Pass the Salt, Please as Man
2011
- L!fe Happens as Pop Pop
- Freerunner as Grampa
- Faces as Chet (archive footage)
2010
- Regular Show as Tony (voice)
- Pete Smalls Is Dead as Saco
- Chasing 3000 as Poppy
- Without Borders as Detective McKenneth
- Back Nine as Mondo
2009
- Staten Island as Jasper Sabiano
- Not Dead Yet as Francis
2008
- To Love and Die
- To Love and Die as Grandfather
- Reach for Me as Alvin
- Beau Jest as Abe Goldman
- Big Heart City as Larry
2007
- Flight of the Conchords as Johnny Boy
- Postal as Paul
- Cosmic Radio as Malcolm Stone
- Hollywood Dreams as Rupert
2006
- Heist as Pops
- Beer League as Dirt
- Bye Bye Benjamin as Mr. Ruby
- The Tenants as Levenspiel
- Edge of Outside as Self
- Sea of Dreams as Tomaso
- Ray of Sunshine
2005
- The Wendell Baker Story as Boyd Fullbright
- This Is an Adventure as Self
- Lonesome Jim as Don
- Before It Had a Name as Jeff
- Circadian Rhythm as Hoover
- Bittersweet Place as Jack 'Pappy' Schaffer
2004
- Justice League Unlimited as Chuck Sirianni (voice)
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as Esteban du Plantier
- Making 'Faces' as Self
2003
- Stuck on You as Morty O'Reilly
- Lucky
- A Good Night to Die as Guy
- Passionada as Daniel Vargas
2002
- Stealing Harvard as Uncle Jack
- Sonny as Albert
- Manna from Heaven as Stanley
- The Burial Society as Sam Goldberg
- The Biz as Eugene Hinkle
2001
- A Nero Wolfe Mystery as Dazy Perrit
- The Royal Tenenbaums as Dusty
- The Man Who Wasn't There as Spectator at Execution (uncredited)
- 61* as Sam Simon
- Women of the Night as Sally
- Bartleby as Frank Waxman
- The Sleepy Time Gal as Bob
- The Cure for Boredom as Eddie
2000
- Boston Public as Bernie Willis
- Animal Factory as Lt. Seeman
- The Crew as Tony 'Mouth' Donato
- The Making of 'Rushmore' as Self
- A Constant Forge as Self
- Just One Night as Arthur Imperial
1999
- Me and Will as Roy
- Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage as Self
- Black & White as Sal
- Ballad of the Nightingale as Jimmy
- Kubanisch rauchen as Dragan
1998
- Rushmore as Bert Fischer
- Relax... It's Just Sex as Emile
- The Treat as Chip O'Herlihee
- Snapped as Bob
- Hoods as Pop Martinelli (uncredited)
- Stingers as Dino
- Johnny 316 as Store Keeper
- Emma's Wish as Harry Bridges (old)
1997
- The Last Don as Alfred Gronevelt
- Who Is Henry Jaglom? as Self
- This World, Then the Fireworks as Detective Harris
- Motel Blue as Capistrano Minister
- Obsession as Jacob Frischmuth
1996
- Arli$$ as Artie
- Tracey Takes On... as Candy Casino
- Things I Never Told You as Frank
- Trees Lounge as Uncle Al
- Good Company
- Cannes Man as Sy Lerner
- Dream for an Insomniac as Uncle Leo
- The Last Home Run as Older Jonathan
- Dead Girl as Ira Golub
- John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All as Self
- Seed as First Client
- Slaughter of the Cock as Ahilleas
- Turnpike as Older man
- Chameleon as Francis
1995
- Dead Presidents as Saul
1994
- Chicago Hope as Norman Cambridge
- It Could Happen to You as Jack Gross
- Under Suspicion as Lt. Mickey Schwartz
- Chasers as Master Chief Bogg
- There Goes My Baby as Pop
- Imaginary Crimes as Eddie
- Hand Gun as Jack McCallister
- Dark Side of Genius as Samuel Rourke
- Ouf!
- Tollbooth as Leon / Larry
1993
- Indecent Proposal as Mr. Shackleford
- Boiling Point as Virgil Leach
- Partners as Janitor
- Trouble Bound as Santino
- When Pigs Fly as Frank
- Anything for John as Self
1992
- Honeymoon in Vegas as Tony Cataracts
- Cold Heaven as Tom Farrelly
- Love Is Like That as Uncle Bud
- In the Soup as Joe
- What Happened to Pete as Bartender
- Chain of Desire as Mel
- Adventures in Spying as Ray Rucker
1991
- White Fang as Skunker
- Diary of a Hitman as Koenig
- Mobsters as Father Bonotto
- Dead in the Water as Lt. Frank Vaness
- Face of a Stranger as Ralph
1990
- Dick Tracy as Sam Catchem
- Cold Dog Soup as Jojo
1989
- Sweet Bird of Youth as Hatcher
- Wicked Stepmother as Feldshine
- Arena - John Cassavetes as Self
1988
- Colors as Sullivan
- Johnny Be Good as Wallace Gibson
- Plain Clothes as Ed Malmburg
- Track 29 as Dr. Bernard Fairmont
1987
- Star Trek: The Next Generation as Lt. Cmdr. Hester Dealt
- Tin Men as Cheese
- Best Seller as Carter
- Survival Game as Dave Forrest
1986
- Matlock as Dick Silvers
- Eye of the Tiger as Sheriff
- Beverly Hills Madam as Tony
1984
- Tales from the Darkside as Howard
- Love Streams as Jack Lawson
- Young Lust: A Soap Opera as Dr. Klapper
- I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work as Self
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
- The Jazz Singer as Unnamed
- Angel on My Shoulder as Smiley Mitchell
1979
- Sunburn as Dobbs
- California Dreaming as Duke Slusarski
- Ravagers as Blind Lawyer
1978
- Convoy as Governor Haskins
1977
- Opening Night as Self (uncredited)
- Valentino as George Ullman
- Death Game as George Manning
- Scott Joplin as Dr. Jaelki
- Black Oak Conspiracy as Homer Metcalf
1976
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie as Mort Weil
- The Last Tycoon as Seal Trainer
1975
- Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight as Wise Guy
1973
- Nightside as Ralph
1972
- Emergency! as Bluebell Hunter
1971
- Minnie and Moskowitz as Seymour Moskowitz
1970
- The Revolutionary as Leonard II
1968
- Coogan's Bluff as Young Hood
- Faces as Chet
1967
- The Invaders as Driver
- Cimarron Strip
1966
- Batman as Cancelled
1965
- The F.B.I. as Irwin
- Laredo
1964
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Jensen
- 12 O'Clock High as Capt. Johnson
- The Killers as Postal Clerk
- The Hanged Man as Bellboy
1963
- The Fugitive as Cabbie
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Police Sgt.
- Burke's Law as Attendant
- The Nutty Professor as Bored Man
1962
- Combat! as Doctor
- The Lloyd Bridges Show as Lawyer #2
- The Webster Boy as Vic
1961
- Alcoa Premiere as The Wounded Man
- Too Late Blues as Red
1960
- My Three Sons as Coach Gregson
- Shadows as Al (uncredited)
- Man on a String
- Murder, Inc. as Teenager
- Juke Box Racket as Seymour
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Jerry (uncredited)
1958
- Naked City as Student (uncredited)
1957
- Wagon Train as Ed