John Cassavetes
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
93
Gender
Male
Birthday
1929-12-09
Day of death
1989-02-03 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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).
Known For
Columbo
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Combat!
The Virginian
Robert Montgomery Presents
The Dick Cavett Show
Dr. Kildare
The Philco Television Playhouse
Rawhide
Studio One
Burke's Law
Burke's Law
Burke's Law
Burke's Law
Climax!
Climax!
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Omnibus
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
The Ed Sullivan Show
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Nederland C
Rosemary's Baby
The United States Steel Hour
The Dick Clark Show
Shadows
The Dirty Dozen
The Fury
Husbands
The Killers
Brass Target
Opening Night
Heroes
Incubus
Johnny Staccato
Channing
Profiles in Courage
Capone
The Haircut
Virgin Island
Tempest
The Legend of Jesse James
Love Streams
Machine Gun McCain
A Constant Forge
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
Minnie and Moskowitz
Edge of the City
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
No Right to Kill
Two-Minute Warning
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Flesh & Blood
Saddle the Wind
Mikey and Nicky
Bandits in Rome
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Devil's Angels
Crime in the Streets
The Night Holds Terror
Alexander The Great
Arena - John Cassavetes
General Electric Theater
Fourteen Hours
Fräulein Berlin
The Webster Boy
Iconic Couples of Hollywood
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
8 Husbands
Movies Are My Life
Affair in Havana
Operation Dirty Dozen
Taxi
Out of the Shadows: The Films of John Cassavetes
Anything for John
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
Nightside
Black Baby
Marvin & Tige
The Making of 'Husbands'
"Cinéastes de notre temps": John Cassavetes
150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement
John Cassavetes par Thierry Jousse
