John Cassavetes

Directing

Born Dec 09, 1929

From New York City, New York, USA

Died Feb 03, 1989

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).

John Cassavetes

Known For

The Dirty Dozen

Rosemary's Baby

Flesh & Blood

The Fury

Capone

Mikey and Nicky

Opening Night

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Heroes

Tempest

Filmography — Acting

The Dirty Dozen

Rosemary's Baby

Flesh & Blood

The Fury

Capone

Mikey and Nicky

Opening Night

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Heroes

Tempest

Shadows

The Killers

Two-Minute Warning

Fourteen Hours

Love Streams

Brass Target

Machine Gun McCain

Husbands

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Incubus

Edge of the City

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Saddle the Wind

Taxi

Movies Are My Life

Minnie and Moskowitz

Bandits in Rome

A Constant Forge

Virgin Island

Alexander The Great

Devil's Angels

The Night Holds Terror

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

Arena - John Cassavetes

Nightside

Marvin & Tige

Crime in the Streets

Operation Dirty Dozen

I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work

Affair in Havana

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

No Right to Kill

The Making of 'Husbands'

The Haircut

Out of the Shadows: The Films of John Cassavetes

Anything for John

150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement

The Webster Boy

"Cinéastes de notre temps": John Cassavetes

Nederland C

John Cassavetes par Thierry Jousse

Fräulein Berlin

Filmography — Crew

A Woman Under the Influence

Gloria

Opening Night

Faces

Shadows

She's So Lovely

Love Streams

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Husbands

Incubus

A Child Is Waiting

Too Late Blues

Big Trouble