Seymour Cassel
1935-2019
Known for Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Indecent Proposal.
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).
Movie Credits
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
Staten Island (2009)
White Fang (1991)
Eye of the Tiger (1986)
California Dreaming (1979)
Death Game (1977)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
The Tenants (2005)
Manna from Heaven (2002)
Rushmore (1998)
Dead Girl (1996)
Indecent Proposal (1993)
Animal Factory (2000)
Dream for an Insomniac (1996)
Boiling Point (1993)
The Mountain Men (1980)
Faces (1968)
Fort McCoy (2011)
The Burial Society (2002)
Double Exposure (1982)
Scott Joplin (1977)
Sonny (2002)
Emma's Wish (1998)
It Could Happen to You (1994)
Johnny Be Good (1988)
Convoy (1978)
The Secret Lives of Dorks (2013)
Beer League (2006)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Cold Heaven (1992)
Dick Tracy (1990)
Pete Smalls Is Dead (2010)
Stealing Harvard (2002)
Chasers (1994)
Wicked Stepmother (1989)
Kingdom Come (2012)
L!fe Happens (2011)
Stuck on You (2003)
Mobsters (1991)
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
61* (2001)
Sunburn (1979)
Best Seller (1987)
Coogan's Bluff (1968)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Black & White (1999)
Man on a String (1960)
The Killers (1964)
Colors (1988)
Shadows (1960)
Opening Night (1977)
