Alan Cassell
Biography
Alan Cassell was an English Australian stage, film, and television actor. Born in Manchester, England, and raised in Birmingham, he began acting after joining classes at the Patch Theatre Company in Western Australia. His first part was a doctor with two words, but he soon played leads and helped establish a Perth theater called The Hole in the Wall. His performance in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg earned him a Best Actor of the Year award. He also worked with the Sydney Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company, and in 1986 he portrayed Boss Finlay opposite Lauren Bacall in Sweet Bird of Youth. He appeared in the original staging of Away, which traveled to New York in 1988. His films included Money Movers (1978), Breaker Morant (1980), Puberty Blues (1981), and Strange Bedfellows (2004). On television he appeared in Taurus Rising, Special Squad, and Neighbours, and he won a 1979 Sammy Award for Cathy's Child.
85years old at death
- Born Manchester
- Died Kyneton
- Star sign: AquariusThe sign runs January 20 to February 18
- Also credited as Alan Louis Cassell
Movie Career
- Films
- 5
- Career span
- 26 years1978 to 2004
Every film, newest first
- 2004Strange BedfellowsIMDb rating 6.2
- 1981Puberty BluesIMDb rating 5.9
- 1980Breaker MorantIMDb rating 7.8
- 1980HarlequinIMDb rating 6.1
- 1978Money MoversIMDb rating 6.5
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A change of course
Before acting, Cassell worked as a motor trimmer at an Austin Motor Company car factory in Birmingham in the 1950s, and he did national service.
Behind the camera
In Perth, Cassell threw himself into promoting theater and was one of the people who set up a venue known as The Hole in the Wall.
Big break
Cassell moved to the eastern states to audition for Bruce Beresford and Hector Crawford, and became one of the actors in Beresford's early Australian films.
Alan Cassell movies on Netflix
Most often with
Bruce Beresford directed three of these films. Charles 'Bud' Tingwell appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Charles 'Bud' Tingwell's page
Bryan Brown's page
Frank Wilson's page
Terence Donovan's page
All films by Bruce Beresford
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.