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Seymour Cassel
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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…
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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).
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2018
Every Night's a Saturday Night
Movie Self
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2014
Lucky Dog
Movie The Real Spencer
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2014
The Dependables
Movie Dominic Ackers
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2014
Fort McCoy
Movie Father Mivkovek
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2014
At The Maple Grove
Movie Boyle
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2013
The Secret Lives of Dorks
Movie Principal
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2012
Booster
Movie Harold
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2012
Broken Kingdom
Movie Clayton
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2012
Lost Angeles
Movie Film Critic
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2012
Kingdom Come
Movie Self
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2012
Pass the Salt, Please
Movie Man
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2012
Magic City
TV show
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2012
Silver Case
Movie Dealer
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2011
Faces
Movie Chet (archive footage)
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2011
Freerunner
Movie Grampa
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2011
L!fe Happens
Movie Pop Pop
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2010
Without Borders
Movie Detective McKenneth
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2010
Pete Smalls Is Dead
Movie Saco
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2010
Back Nine
Movie Mondo
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2010
Regular Show
TV show Tony (voice)
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2010
Chasing 3000
Movie Poppy
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2009
Staten Island
Movie Jasper Sabiano
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2009
Not Dead Yet
Movie Francis
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2008
To Love and Die
Movie Grandfather
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2008
To Love and Die
TV show
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2008
Reach for Me
Movie Alvin
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2008
Beau Jest
Movie Abe Goldman
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2008
Big Heart City
Movie Larry
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2007
Cosmic Radio
Movie Malcolm Stone
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2007
Postal
Movie Paul
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2007
Flight of the Conchords
TV show Johnny Boy
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2007
Hollywood Dreams
Movie Rupert
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2006
Sea of Dreams
Movie Tomaso
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2006
Beer League
Movie Dirt
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2006
Ray of Sunshine
Movie
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2006
Edge of Outside
Movie Self
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2006
Heist
TV show Pops
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2006
The Tenants
Movie Levenspiel
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2006
Bye Bye Benjamin
Movie Mr. Ruby
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2005
Lonesome Jim
Movie Don
