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 2024-10-18 150 Miles of Rot2021-03-03 Gena Rowlands: A2019-06-05 Electric Boogalo2014-10-06 Roman Polanski: 2008-01-18 Edge of Outside2006-06-11 Operation Dirty 2006-01-01 The Kid Stays in2002-08-16 A Constant Forge2000-01-01 Out of the Shado1993-10-02 Anything for Joh1993-09-06 Arena - John Cas1989-02-24 Marvin & Tige1985-03-08 Nederland C1985-01-16 I'm Almost Not C1984-07-01 Love Streams1984-03-22 Fräulein Berlin1984-01-01 The Haircut1982-09-12 Tempest1982-08-13 Incubus1982-02-24 Whose Life Is It1981-12-02 Flesh & Blood1979-10-14 Brass Target1978-12-22 Movies Are My Li1988-04-17 The Fury1978-03-10 Opening Night1977-12-22 Heroes1977-11-04 Mikey and Nicky1976-12-21 Two-Minute Warni1976-11-12 Capone1975-04-16 Nightside1973-04-05 Minnie and Mosko1971-12-22 The Making of 'H1971-03-28 Husbands1970-12-08 If It's Tuesday,1969-04-24 Machine Gun McCa1969-04-01 "Cinéastes de n1969-03-17 Bandits in Rome1968-11-20 Rosemary's Baby1968-06-12 Alexander The Gr1968-01-26 The Dirty Dozen1967-06-15 Devil's Angels1967-04-14 The Killers1964-07-07 The Webster Boy1962-06-01 Hedda Hopper's H1960-01-10 Virgin Island1959-08-07 Shadows1960-10-14 Saddle the Wind1958-03-20 Affair in Havana1957-10-01 Edge of the City1957-01-04 No Right to Kill1956-08-09 Crime in the Str1956-06-10 The Night Holds 1955-07-13 Taxi1953-01-21 Fourteen Hours1951-04-01