Seymour Cassel

Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Birthday: January 22, 1935

A blond, often mustachioed, and scruffy character player best known as an integral member of John Cassavetes' informal clan of actors, Seymour Cassel received an early introduction to show business, traveling with a troupe of touring burlesque performers that included his mother. After living for several years in Panama, where his family owned a nightclub, he moved to NYC to pursue an acting career, studying with the American Theatre Wing and with Lee Strasberg's famed Actors Studio. Cassel met Cassavetes at the future director's 46…more

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Actor

Me & Will
Roy
Hoods
Chief
Face of a Stranger
Ralph
Under Suspicion
Captain Mickey Schwartz
John Cassavetes

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Career Milestones

2007
Co-starred with brothers Luke and Owen Wilson in "The Wendell Baker Story," a film co-directed by Luke and Andrew Wilson
2006
Co-starred in Steve Buscemi's "Lonesome Jim"
2003
Cast in the Farrelly Brothers' comedy "Stuck on You"
2003
Starred with John Corbett in the FX drama "Lucky" a dark comedy dealing with the lives and addictions of compulsive gamblers in Las Vegas
2002
Played Uncle Jack in the comedy "Stealing Harvard"