John Cassavetes
Birthday: December 9, 1929
Birth Place: New York, New York, USA
Height: 5' 7"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for John Cassavetes. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

Biography

Movie Credits

King Kongs Faust	(1985)
Love Streams	(1984)
[ Seymour Cassel ][ Raphael De Niro ]
Fräulein Berlin	(1983)
Marvin & Tige	(1983)
[ Billy Dee Williams ]
Tempest	(1982)
[ Raul Julia ]
The Haircut	(1982)
Whose Life Is It Anyway?	(1981)
[ Richard Dreyfuss ][ Jeffrey Combs ][ Bob Balaban ]
The Incubus	(1981)
Flesh & Blood	(1979)
[ Denzel Washington ][ Tom Berenger ]
Brass Target	(1978)
[ Max von Sydow ][ Robert Vaughn ][ Bruce Davison ][ Patrick McGoohan ][ George Kennedy ]
The Fury	(1978)
[ Kirk Douglas ][ Brian De Palma ][ John Williams ][ Charles Durning ][ Dennis Franz ]
Opening Night	(1977)
[ Peter Bogdanovich ][ Ben Gazzara ][ Seymour Cassel ]
A Very Special Place	(1977)
[ Seymour Cassel ]
Mikey and Nicky	(1976)
[ Ned Beatty ][ M. Emmet Walsh ]
Two-Minute Warning	(1976)
[ Charlton Heston ][ Beau Bridges ][ Lloyd Bridges ][ Jack Klugman ][ Martin Balsam ]
Capone	(1975)
[ Sylvester Stallone ][ Ben Gazzara ][ Martin Kove ]
Nightside	(1973)
[ F. Murray Abraham ][ Richard Jordan ][ Seymour Cassel ]
Columbo: Étude in Black	(1972)
[ Pat Morita ][ George Gaynes ]
Minnie and Moskowitz	(1971)
[ Seymour Cassel ]
Husbands	(1970)
[ Nick Cassavetes ][ Ben Gazzara ]
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium	(1969)
[ Robert Vaughn ][ Ian McShane ][ Ben Gazzara ][ Norman Fell ]
Intoccabili, Gli	(1968)
Roma come Chicago	(1968)
Rosemary's Baby	(1968)
[ Tony Curtis ][ Charles Grodin ][ Ralph Bellamy ]
Alexander the Great	(1968)
[ William Shatner ][ Adam West ][ Joseph Cotten ]
The Dirty Dozen	(1967)
[ Donald Sutherland ][ Charles Bronson ][ Ernest Borgnine ][ Lee Marvin ][ Telly Savalas ]
Devil's Angels	(1967)
Wind Fever	(1966)
The Fliers	(1965)
Who Killed Hamlet?	(1965)
Who Killed Annie Foran?	(1964)
Murder Case	(1964)
The Killers	(1964)
[ Lee Marvin ][ John Williams ][ Ronald Reagan ][ Seymour Cassel ][ Norman Fell ]
Who Killed Don Pablo?	(1964)
[ Cesar Romero ]
A Child Is Waiting	(1963)
[ Burt Lancaster ][ Bill Mumy ][ Lawrence Tierney ]
The Webster Boy	(1962)
[ Seymour Cassel ]
Too Late Blues	(1961)
[ Seymour Cassel ][ Bobby Darin ][ Vince Edwards ]
Shadows	(1959)
[ Seymour Cassel ]
Saddle the Wind	(1958)
[ Robert Taylor ]
Virgin Island	(1958)
[ Sidney Poitier ]
Affair in Havana	(1957)
[ Raymond Burr ]
Edge of the City	(1957)
[ Sidney Poitier ][ Jack Warden ]
No Right to Kill	(1956)
Crime in the Streets	(1956)
[ James Whitmore ][ Sal Mineo ]
Crime in the Streets	(1955)
No Passport for Death	(1955)
The Night Holds Terror	(1955)
[ Vince Edwards ]
Buckskin	(1955)
Ladders of Lies	(1955)
Lonesome Road	(1954)
Taxi	(1953)
[ DeForest Kelley ]
Fourteen Hours	(1951)
[ Ossie Davis ][ Brian Keith ][ Jeffrey Hunter ]

Trivia

• Father of Nick Cassavetes, Alexandra Cassavetes and Zoe R. Cassavetes. Son of Katherine Cassavetes.
• Friend/actor Peter Falk said: "Cassavetes was the most fervent man I ever met, and he didn't have a copy-cat bone in his body."
• A photograph of Cassavetes, taken during the production of his film Husbands (1970), appears on one stamp of a sheet of 10 USA 37¢ commemorative postage stamps, issued 25 February 2003, celebrating American Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes. The stamp honors directing.
• Educated at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.
• Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 189-194. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
• Friend/actor Peter Falk said: "Every Cassavetes film is always about the same thing. Somebody said 'Man is God in ruins,' and John saw the ruins with a clarity that you and I could not tolerate."
• In Ray Carney's "Cassavetes on Cassavetes" book, Cassavetes confessed to his parents that he wanted to be an actor. His father wasn't initially thrilled at the idea of his son being an actor, but told him that he had to work hard because he would be portraying human emotions truthfully.
• He was fully Greek in heritage.
• Auditioned for The Actors Studio when he was starting out as an actor, but was rejected.
• Despite many claiming that his films are improvised, it's actually a completed script that comes from improvised work by the actors. Another trademark of his films is that they're shot documentary-style.
• He and Gena Rowlands made 10 movies together: A Child Is Waiting (1963), Faces (1968/I) , Gloria (1980), Love Streams (1984), Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), Opening Night (1977), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Intoccabili, Gli (1968), Two-Minute Warning (1976) and Tempest (1982)
• Directed 3 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Seymour Cassel, Lynn Carlin and Gena Rowlands, '
• He and his good friend Ben Gazzara made 5 movies together: Husbands (1970), Capone (1975), If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), Opening Night (1977) and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
• He and his good friend Peter Falk made 6 movies together: Husbands (1970), Intoccabili, Gli (1968), Mikey and Nicky (1976), Opening Night (1977), Big Trouble (1986), A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and one movie made for TV: Columbo: Étude in Black (1972) (TV)
• Born to Nicholas John Cassavetes and Katherine Demetri.

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