CINEFILER

John Cassavetes

Born
December 9, 1929
Died
February 3, 1989
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
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
Faces
(1968)
Director
Opening Night
(1977)
Director
Big Trouble
(1986)
Director
Shadows
(1960)
Director
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
(1976)
Director
Love Streams
(1984)
Director
A Child Is Waiting
(1963)
Director
A Woman Under the Influence
(1974)
Director
Gloria
(1980)
Director
Minnie and Moskowitz
(1971)
Director
Husbands
(1970)
Director
Full Filmography
Directing
Acting
Fourteen Hours
(1951)
Reporter (uncredited)
Taxi
(1953)
Man (uncredited)
The Night Holds Terror
(1955)
Robert Batsford
Crime in the Streets
(1956)
Frankie Dane
No Right to Kill
(1956)
McCloud
Edge of the City
(1957)
Axel Nordmann
Affair in Havana
(1957)
Nick Douglas
Saddle the Wind
(1958)
Tony Sinclair
Virgin Island
(1959)
Evan
Shadows
(1960)
Pedestrian (uncredited)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
(1960)
Self
The Webster Boy
(1962)
Vance Miller
The Killers
(1964)
Johnny North
The Dirty Dozen
(1967)
Victor Franko
Devil's Angels
(1967)
Cody
Rosemary's Baby
(1968)
Guy Woodhouse
Alexander The Great
(1968)
Karonos
Bandits in Rome
(1968)
Mario Corda
Machine Gun McCain
(1969)
Hank McCain
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
(1969)
Steve
Husbands
(1970)
Gus Demetri
Minnie and Moskowitz
(1971)
Jim (uncredited)
The Making of 'Husbands'
(1971)
Self
Nightside
(1973)
Carmine Kelly
Capone
(1975)
Frankie Yale
Two-Minute Warning
(1976)
Sgt. Chris Button
Mikey and Nicky
(1976)
Nicky
Opening Night
(1977)
Maurice Aarons
Heroes
(1977)
VA Doctor (uncredited)
The Fury
(1978)
Ben Childress
Brass Target
(1978)
Maj. Joe De Lucca
Movies Are My Life
(1978)
Self
Flesh & Blood
(1979)
Gus Caputo
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
(1981)
Dr. Michael Emerson
Tempest
(1982)
Phillip
Incubus
(1982)
Dr. Sam Cordell
The Haircut
(1982)
Music Industry Executive
Love Streams
(1984)
Robert Harmon
Fräulein Berlin
(1984)
himself
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes - The Man and His Work
(1984)
Self
Terror in the Aisles
(1984)
Guy Woodhouse (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marvin & Tige
(1985)
Marvin
Nederland C
(1985)
Self - Portrait of the actor / cinematographer
Arena - John Cassavetes
(1989)
Self
Anything for John
(1993)
Self (archive footage)
Out of the Shadows: The Films of John Cassavetes
(1993)
Self
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
(1995)
Self
A Constant Forge
(2000)
Self (archive footage)
The Kid Stays in the Picture
(2002)
Self (archive footage)
Operation Dirty Dozen
(2006)
Self
Edge of Outside
(2006)
Self (archive footage)
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
(2008)
Guy Woodhouse (archive footage)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
(2014)
Robert Harmon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
(2019)
Self (archive footage)
150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement
(2021)
Man Talking
Writing
Editing
Production
Crew
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