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Love Streams

as Robert Harmon

1984
Tempest

as Phillip

1982
Incubus

as Dr. Sam Cordell

1982
Whose Life Is It Anyway?

as Dr. Michael Emerson

1981
Flesh & Blood

as Gus Caputo

1979
The Fury

as Ben Childress

1978
Opening Night

as Maurice Aarons

1977
Heroes

as

1977
Two-Minute Warning

as Sgt. Chris Button

1976
Mikey and Nicky

as Nicky

1976
Capone

as Frankie Yale

1975
Husbands

as Gus Demetri

1970
Machine Gun McCain

as Hank McCain

1970
Rosemary's Baby

as Guy Woodhouse

1968
Bandits in Rome

as Mario Corda

1968
Alexander The Great

as Karonos

1968
The Dirty Dozen

as Victor Franko

1967
Devil's Angels

as Cody

1967
The Killers

as Johnny North

1964
Johnny Staccato

as Johnny Staccato

1959
Saddle the Wind

as Tony Sinclair

1958
Edge of the City

as Axel Nordmann

1957
Affair in Havana

as Nick Douglas

1957
Crime in the Streets

as Frankie Dane

1956
John Cassavetes John Cassavetes

Birthday

1929-12-09

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

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.
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