Seymour Cassel
Biography
Seymour Cassel was an American actor whose career spanned more than 50 years and over 200 films and television shows. Born in Detroit, he made his film debut in John Cassavetes's first directed feature, Shadows, and also worked as associate producer on it; he followed with Too Late Blues in 1961 opposite Cassavetes. His supporting turn as Chet in Faces brought an Academy Award nomination and a National Society of Film Critics Award. He stayed with Cassavetes for Minnie and Moskowitz, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Love Streams. Wes Anderson cast him in Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), and he appeared in Coogan's Bluff, Convoy, Dick Tracy, Honeymoon in Vegas, Indecent Proposal and Beer League, plus four seasons of Tracey Takes On.... He died in 2019.
84years old at death
- Born Detroit
- Died Los Angeles
- Star sign: AquariusThe sign runs January 20 to February 18
Movie Career
- Films
- 64
- Career span
- 53 years1960 to 2013
Genres
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First role
Seymour Cassel made his film debut in Shadows, the first film John Cassavetes directed, and also worked on it as associate producer.
Early training
After building props for a Detroit theater company and taking small acting roles, Cassel bought a bus ticket to New York, where he bombed at an Actors Studio audition.
A first
In 2012, an actors' prize called the Seymour Cassel Award was introduced by the Oldenburg Film Festival, which takes place in Germany.
Seymour Cassel movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
John Cassavetes directed six of these films, Wes Anderson three and Andrew Bergman two. Two actors appear in five of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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John Cassavetes's page
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Bill Murray's page
All films by Wes Anderson
All films by Andrew Bergman
Also three films together10 more actors
- Luke WilsonThe Wendell Baker Story (2005), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and Rushmore (1998)
- Carol KaneA Constant Forge (2000), In the Soup (1992) and Valentino (1977)
- Owen WilsonThe Wendell Baker Story (2005), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
- Anjelica HustonThe Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Last Tycoon (1976)
- Jennifer TillyThe Secret Lives of Dorks (2013), The Crew (2000) and Johnny Be Good (1988)
- Debi MazarThings I Never Told You (1996), In the Soup (1992) and Love Is Like That (1992)
- Richard EdsonThis World, Then the Fireworks (1997), Things I Never Told You (1996) and Love Is Like That (1992)
- Chris PennStealing Harvard (2002), Imaginary Crimes (1994) and Mobsters (1991)
- Steven RandazzoLittle New York (2009), Animal Factory (2000) and In the Soup (1992)
- Al RubanA Constant Forge (2000), Love Streams (1984) and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Seymour Cassel's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$786 million
28 of the 64 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 64 films: 28 worldwide figure; 11 us gross only; 2 never in cinemas; 23 figure not found.
- 28Worldwide figure
- 11US gross only
- 2Never in cinemas
- 23Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 84% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$267M33.9% of the total
- 2$104M13.2% of the total
- 3$71M9.1% of the total
- 4$66M8.4% of the total
- 5$45M5.7% of the total
- 6$38M4.8% of the total
- 7$35M4.5% of the total
- 8$35M4.4% of the total
$125 millionfrom the other 20 films with a worldwide figure, 16% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.