Seymour Cassel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Seymour Cassel

American actor

Date of Birth: 22-Jan-1935

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 07-Apr-2019

Profession: actor, university teacher, film producer, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Seymour Joseph Cassel (January 22, 1935 – April 7, 2019) was an American actor who appeared in over 200 movies and television shows, and had a career that spanned over 50 years.Cassel 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' Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), Opening Night (1977), and Love Streams (1984). He also appeared in a number of independent and Hollywood film productions.
Notable films he was featured in include 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), 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).