John Cassavetes

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1929-12-09

Deathday 1989-02-03 (59 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As John Nicholas Cassavetes, 존 카사베츠, 约翰·卡萨维蒂

John Cassavetes

Biography

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). Description from the Wikipedia article John Cassavetes, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known For

Director

1986
Big Trouble

as Director

1984
Love Streams

as Director

1980
Gloria

as Director

1977
Opening Night

as Director

1971
1970
Husbands

as Director

1968
Faces

as Director

1963
A Child Is Waiting

as Director

1962
1961
Too Late Blues

as Director

1960
Shadows

as Director

1959
Johnny Staccato

as Director

Actor

2019
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

as Self (archive footage)

2015
Iconic Couples

as Self (archive footage)

2014
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

as Robert Harmon (archive footage) (uncredited)

2008
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

as Guy Woodhouse (archive footage)

2006
Edge of Outside

as Self (archive footage)

2002
The Kid Stays in the Picture

as Self (archive footage)

2000
A Constant Forge

as Self (archive footage)

1993
Anything for John

as Self (archive footage)

1985
Marvin & Tige

as Marvin

1985
Nederland C

as Self - Portrait of the actor / cinematographer

1984
Love Streams

as Robert Harmon

1984
Fräulein Berlin

as himself

1982
The Haircut

as Music Industry Executive

1982
Tempest

as Phillip

1982
Incubus

as Dr. Sam Cordell

1981
Whose Life Is It Anyway?

as Dr. Michael Emerson

1979
Flesh & Blood

as Gus Caputo

1978
Brass Target

as Maj. Joe De Lucca

1978
1978
The Fury

as Ben Childress

1977
Opening Night

as Maurice Aarons

1977
Heroes

as VA Doctor (uncredited)

1976
1976
Two-Minute Warning

as Sgt. Chris Button

1975
Capone

as Frankie Yale

1973
Nightside

as Carmine Kelly

1971
Columbo

as Alex Benedict

1970
Husbands

as Gus Demetri

1969
Machine Gun McCain

as Hank McCain

1968
Bandits in Rome

as Mario Corda

1968
Rosemary's Baby

as Guy Woodhouse

1968
1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

1967
The Dirty Dozen

as Victor Franko

1967
1965
The Legend of Jesse James

as Blackie Dolan

1964
The Killers

as Johnny North

1964
1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Peter Chandler

1963
Burke's Law

as Eddie Dineen

1963
Burke's Law

as Alfred Algernon

1963
Burke's Law

as Stephen Collins

1963
Burke's Law

as Carlos de Vega

1963
Channing

as Lloyd Sullivan

1962
The Webster Boy

as Vance Miller

1962
Combat!

as Kalb

1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Rusty Connors

1962
1962
The Virginian

as Jonah MacIntosh

1961
Dr. Kildare

as Makin Saund

1960
Shadows

as Pedestrian (uncredited)

1959
1959
Johnny Staccato

as Johnny Staccato

1959
Rawhide

as Cal Fletcher

1958
Saddle the Wind

as Tony Sinclair

1957
Affair in Havana

as Nick Douglas

1957
Edge of the City

as Axel Nordmann

1956
No Right to Kill

as McCloud

1956
Crime in the Streets

as Frankie Dane

1955
The Night Holds Terror

as Robert Batsford

1955
1954
Climax!

as Malcolm McCloud

1954
Climax!

as Abel Winter

1953
Taxi

as Man (uncredited)

1951
Fourteen Hours

as Reporter (uncredited)

1948
Studio One

as Paul Greco

1948
The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self - Guest

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

Writer

2024
Watching a Cassavetes Movie

as Original Film Writer

1999
Gloria

as Original Film Writer

1997
She's So Lovely

as Writer

1984
Love Streams

as Writer

1982
Incubus

as Screenplay

1980
Gloria

as Writer

1977
Opening Night

as Writer

1971
1970
Husbands

as Writer

1968
Faces

as Writer

1961
Too Late Blues

as Writer

1960
Shadows

as Writer

Editor

1970
Husbands

as Editor

1968
Faces

as Editor

1960
Shadows

as Editor

Producer

1968
Faces

as Producer

1961
Too Late Blues

as Producer

Crew

2014
Castanha

as Thanks