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John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. First known as an actor on television and in film, Cassavetes also became a pioneer of American independent cinema, writing and directing movies financed in part with income from his acting work. AllMovie called him "an iconoclastic maverick," while The New Yorker suggested that he "may be the most influential American director of the last half century."
As an actor, Cassavetes starred in notable Hollywood films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, including Edge of the City (1957), The Dirty Dozen (1967), and Rosemary's Baby (1968). He began his directing career with the 1959 i…
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John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. First known as an actor on television and in film, Cassavetes also became a pioneer of American independent cinema, writing and directing movies financed in part with income from his acting work. AllMovie called him "an iconoclastic maverick," while The New Yorker suggested that he "may be the most influential American director of the last half century." As an actor, Cassavetes starred in notable Hollywood films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, including Edge of the City (1957), The Dirty Dozen (1967), and Rosemary's Baby (1968). He began his directing career with the 1959 independent feature Shadows and followed with independent productions such as Faces (1968), Husbands (1970), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Opening Night (1977), and Love Streams (1984), in addition to intermittent studio work. Cassavetes' films employed an actor-centered approach which privileged character examination over traditional Hollywood storytelling or stylized production values. His films became associated with an improvisational, cinéma vérité aesthetic. He collaborated frequently with a rotating group of friends, crew members, and actors, including his wife Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, and Seymour Cassel. For his role in The Dirty Dozen, Cassavetes received a Best Supporting Actor nomination. As a filmmaker, he was nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Faces (1968) and Best Director for A Woman Under the Influence (1974).
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John Cassavetes's Filmography
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150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement
as Man Talking
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
as Self (archive footage)
Peter Falk versus Columbo
as Self (archive footage)
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
as Guy Woodhouse (archive footage)
Operation Dirty Dozen
as Self
A Constant Forge
as Self (archive footage)
Out of the Shadows: The Films of John Cassavetes
as Self
Anything for John
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Arena - John Cassavetes
as Self
Movies Are My Life
as Self
Marvin & Tige
as Marvin
No Poster
Nederland C
as Self - Portrait of the actor / cinematographer
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
as Self
Love Streams
as Robert Harmon
Fräulein Berlin
as himself
The Haircut
as Music Industry Executive
Tempest
as Phillip
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
as Dr. Michael Emerson
Incubus
as Dr. Sam Cordell
Flesh & Blood
as Gus Caputo
Brass Target
as Maj. Joe De Lucca
The Fury
as Ben Childress
Opening Night
as Maurice Aarons
Heroes
as VA Doctor (uncredited)
Mikey and Nicky
as Nicky
Two-Minute Warning
as Sgt. Chris Button
Capone
as Frankie Yale
Nightside
as Carmine Kelly
Minnie and Moskowitz
as Jim
The Making of 'Husbands'
as Self
Husbands
as Gus Demetri
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
as Steve
Machine Gun McCain
as Hank McCain
Bandits in Rome
as Mario Corda
Rosemary's Baby
as Guy Woodhouse
Alexander The Great
as Karonos
The Dirty Dozen
as Victor Franko
Devil's Angels
as Cody
The Killers
as Johnny North
The Webster Boy
as Vance Miller
Shadows
as Pedestrian (uncredited)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
as Self
Virgin Island
as Evan
Saddle the Wind
as Tony Sinclair
Affair in Havana
as Nick Douglas
Edge of the City
as Axel Nordmann
No Right to Kill
as McCloud
Crime in the Streets
as Frankie Dane
The Night Holds Terror
as Robert Batsford
Taxi
as Man (uncredited)
Fourteen Hours
as Reporter (uncredited)