Seymour Cassel
152 movies · 35 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 22, 1935
- Died
- Apr 7, 2019 (age 84)
- Place of birth
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Also known as
- Seymour Joseph 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).
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 7.5 The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 · Film
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★ 7.1 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004 · Film
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★ 7.4 Rushmore
1998 · Film
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★ 8.6 Regular Show
2010 · TV
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★ 8.4 Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987 · TV
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★ 7.5 The Man Who Wasn't There
2001 · Film
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★ 6.4 Indecent Proposal
1993 · Film
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★ 6.2 Dick Tracy
1990 · Film
Seymour Cassel: movies and TV shows
Acting (187)
- 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 Booster
as Harold
- 2012 Broken Kingdom
as Clayton
- 2012 Lost Angeles
as Film Critic
- 2012 Pass the Salt, Please
as Man
- 2012 Magic City · TV
- 2012 Silver Case
as Dealer
- 2011 Faces
as Chet (archive footage)
- 2011 Freerunner
as Grampa
- 2011 L!fe Happens
as Pop Pop
- 2010 Without Borders
as Detective McKenneth
- 2010 Pete Smalls Is Dead
as Saco
- 2010 Back Nine
as Mondo
- 2010
- 2010 Chasing 3000
as Poppy
- 2009 Staten Island
as Jasper Sabiano
- 2009 Not Dead Yet
as Francis
- 2008 To Love and Die
as Grandfather
- 2008
- 2008 Reach for Me
as Alvin
- 2008 Beau Jest
as Abe Goldman
- 2008 Big Heart City
as Larry
- 2007 Cosmic Radio
as Malcolm Stone
- 2007 Postal
as Paul
- 2007
- 2007 Hollywood Dreams
as Rupert
- 2006 Sea of Dreams
as Tomaso
- 2006 Beer League
as Dirt
- 2006
- 2006
- 2006 The Tenants
as Levenspiel
- 2006 Bye Bye Benjamin
as Mr. Ruby
- 2005 Lonesome Jim
as Don
- 2005 Circadian Rhythm
as Hoover
- 2005 Before It Had a Name
as Jeff
- 2005 The Wendell Baker Story
as Boyd Fullbright
- 2005 Bittersweet Place
as Jack 'Pappy' Schaffer
- 2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
as Esteban du Plantier
- 2004
- 2003 Stuck on You
as Morty O'Reilly
- 2003 Passionada
as Daniel Vargas
- 2003 A Good Night to Die
as Guy
- 2003
- 2002 Sonny
as Albert
- 2002 The Burial Society
as Sam Goldberg
- 2002 Manna from Heaven
as Stanley
- 2002 Stealing Harvard
as Uncle Jack
- 2002 The Biz
as Eugene Hinkle
- 2001 The Man Who Wasn't There
as Spectator at Execution (uncredited)
- 2001 The Royal Tenenbaums
as Dusty
- 2001 The Cure for Boredom
as Eddie
- 2001 61*
as Sam Simon
- 2001
- 2001 Bartleby
as Frank Waxman
- 2001 The Sleepy Time Gal
as Bob
- 2001 Women of the Night
as Sally
- 2000
- 2000 Animal Factory
as Lt. Seeman
- 2000 Just One Night
as Arthur Imperial
- 2000 The Crew
as Tony 'Mouth' Donato
- 1999 Black & White
as Sal
- 1999 Kubanisch rauchen
as Dragan
- 1999 Me and Will
as Roy
- 1999 Ballad of the Nightingale
as Jimmy
- 1998 Rushmore
as Bert Fischer
- 1998 Stingers
as Dino
- 1998 Emma's Wish
as Harry Bridges (old)
- 1998 Snapped
as Bob
- 1998 The Treat
as Chip O'Herlihee
- 1998 Hoods
as Pop Martinelli (uncredited)
- 1998 Relax... It's Just Sex
as Emile
- 1998 Johnny 316
as Store Keeper
- 1997 Motel Blue
as Capistrano Minister
- 1997 Obsession
as Jacob Frischmuth
- 1997 This World, Then the Fireworks
as Detective Harris
- 1997
- 1996 Chameleon
as Francis
- 1996 Dead Girl
as Ira Golub
- 1996 Turnpike
as Older man
- 1996 The Last Home Run
as Older Jonathan
- 1996 Slaughter of the Cock
as Ahilleas
- 1996
- 1996 Cannes Man
as Sy Lerner
- 1996 Trees Lounge
as Uncle Al
- 1996 Things I Never Told You
as Frank
- 1996 Dream for an Insomniac
as Uncle Leo
- 1996
- 1996
- 1996 Seed
as First Client
- 1995 Dead Presidents
as Saul
- 1994 Tollbooth
as Leon / Larry
- 1994
- 1994 Imaginary Crimes
as Eddie
- 1994 Hand Gun
as Jack McCallister
- 1994
- 1994
- 1994 There Goes My Baby
as Pop
- 1994 Dark Side of Genius
as Samuel Rourke
- 1994 It Could Happen to You
as Jack Gross
- 1994 Chasers
as Master Chief Bogg
- 1993 Partners
as Janitor
- 1993 When Pigs Fly
as Frank
- 1993 Boiling Point
as Virgil Leach
- 1993 Indecent Proposal
as Mr. Shackleford
- 1993 Trouble Bound
as Santino
- 1992 Adventures in Spying
as Ray Rucker
- 1992 In the Soup
as Joe
- 1992 Honeymoon in Vegas
as Tony Cataracts
- 1992 Chain of Desire
as Mel
- 1992 Love Is Like That
as Uncle Bud
- 1992 Cold Heaven
as Tom Farrelly
- 1992 What Happened to Pete
as Bartender
- 1991 Face of a Stranger
as Ralph
- 1991 Dead in the Water
as Lt. Frank Vaness
- 1991 Diary of a Hitman
as Koenig
- 1991 Mobsters
as Father Bonotto
- 1991 White Fang
as Skunker
- 1990 Cold Dog Soup
as Jojo
- 1990 Dick Tracy
as Sam Catchem
- 1989 Sweet Bird of Youth
as Hatcher
- 1989 Wicked Stepmother
as Feldshine
- 1988 Track 29
as Dr. Bernard Fairmont
- 1988 Colors
as Sullivan
- 1988 Plain Clothes
as Ed Malmburg
- 1988 Johnny Be Good
as Wallace Gibson
- 1987 Survival Game
as Dave Forrest
- 1987
- 1987 Best Seller
as Carter
- 1987 Tin Men
as Cheese
- 1986 Eye of the Tiger
as Sheriff
- 1986 Beverly Hills Madam
as Tony
- 1986
- 1984
- 1984 Young Lust: A Soap Opera
as Dr. Klapper
- 1984 Love Streams
as Jack Lawson
- 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 Jazz Singer
as Unnamed
- 1980 The Mountain Men
as La Bont
- 1980 Angel on My Shoulder
as Smiley Mitchell
- 1979 Sunburn
as Dobbs
- 1979 Ravagers
as Blind Lawyer
- 1979 California Dreaming
as Duke Slusarski
- 1978 Convoy
as Governor Haskins
- 1977 Valentino
as George Ullman
- 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
- 1972
- 1971 Minnie and Moskowitz
as Seymour Moskowitz
- 1970 The Revolutionary
as Leonard II
- 1968 Faces
as Chet
- 1968 Coogan's Bluff
as Young Hood
- 1967
- 1967
- 1966
- 1965
- 1965
- 1964 The Hanged Man
as Bellboy
- 1964 12 O'Clock High · TV
as Capt. Johnson / B-17 Pilot / Captain Johnson / Left Waist Gunner / Mechanic · 5 episodes
- 1964
- 1964 The Killers
as Postal Clerk
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963 The Nutty Professor
as Bored Man
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962 The Webster Boy
as Vic
- 1961 Too Late Blues
as Red
- 1961
- 1960 Shadows
as Al (uncredited)
- 1960
- 1960 Murder, Inc.
as Teenager
- 1960 Juke Box Racket
as Seymour
- 1960
- 1959
- 1958
- 1957
Behind the camera (1)
- 1960 Shadows
Associate Producer
Talk shows and appearances (15)
- 2018
- 2012
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- 1984
- 1977
- 1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
2 episodes