John Cassavetes [11147]
Gender: Male
Popularity: 1.3597
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: 1929-12-09
Deathday: 1989-02-03
Age: 59 years
Movies: 55
Links: Homepage, IMDB
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.

John Cassavetes
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150 Miles of Rot
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Gena Rowlands: A
2019-06-05
Electric Boogalo
2014-10-06
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2008-01-18
Edge of Outside
2006-06-11
Operation Dirty
2006-01-01
The Kid Stays in
2002-08-16
A Constant Forge
2000-01-01
Out of the Shado
1993-10-02
Anything for Joh
1993-09-06
Arena - John Cas
1989-02-24
Marvin & Tige
1985-03-08
Nederland C
1985-01-16
I'm Almost Not C
1984-07-01
Love Streams
1984-03-22
Fräulein Berlin
1984-01-01
The Haircut
1982-09-12
Tempest
1982-08-13
Incubus
1982-02-24
Whose Life Is It
1981-12-02
Flesh & Blood
1979-10-14
Brass Target
1978-12-22
Movies Are My Li
1988-04-17
The Fury
1978-03-10
Opening Night
1977-12-22
Heroes
1977-11-04
Mikey and Nicky
1976-12-21
Two-Minute Warni
1976-11-12
Capone
1975-04-16
Nightside
1973-04-05
Minnie and Mosko
1971-12-22
The Making of 'H
1971-03-28
Husbands
1970-12-08
If It's Tuesday,
1969-04-24
Machine Gun McCa
1969-04-01
"Cinéastes de n
1969-03-17
Bandits in Rome
1968-11-20
Rosemary's Baby
1968-06-12
Alexander The Gr
1968-01-26
The Dirty Dozen
1967-06-15
Devil's Angels
1967-04-14
The Killers
1964-07-07
The Webster Boy
1962-06-01
Hedda Hopper's H
1960-01-10
Virgin Island
1959-08-07
Shadows
1960-10-14
Saddle the Wind
1958-03-20
Affair in Havana
1957-10-01
Edge of the City
1957-01-04
No Right to Kill
1956-08-09
Crime in the Str
1956-06-10
The Night Holds
1955-07-13
Taxi
1953-01-21
Fourteen Hours
1951-04-01