
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).

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

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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

ローズマリーの赤ちゃん

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

原子力潜水艦シービュー号

コンバット!

特攻大作戦

Opening Night

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Fourteen Hours

Rawhide

ラヴ・ストリームス

Gena Rowlands — Unabhängig im Kino und im Leben

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

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Edge of the City

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Channing

アメリカの影

Mikey and Nicky

殺人者たち

The Dick Cavett Show

エド・サリヴァン・ショー

ハズバンズ

Minnie and Moskowitz

A Constant Forge

Saddle the Wind

Taxi

General Electric Theater

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フューリー

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

The Philco Television Playhouse

パニック・イン・スタジアム

The United States Steel Hour

Heroes

Crime in the Streets

明日よさらば

Anything for John

Operation Dirty Dozen

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

Movies Are My Life

Burke's Law

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Omnibus

Tempest

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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Robert Montgomery Presents

Incubus

The Night Holds Terror

Flesh & Blood

Dr. Kildare

The Dick Clark Show

Brass Target

The Mike Douglas Show

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Devil's Angels

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Affair in Havana

Virgin Island

Alexander The Great

Roma come Chicago

Studio One

Johnny Staccato

Marvin & Tige

The Legend of Jesse James

Climax!

Out of the Shadows: The Films of John Cassavetes

The Making of 'Husbands'

Fräulein Berlin

The Webster Boy

No Right to Kill

150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement

Nightside

John Cassavetes par Thierry Jousse

"Cinéastes de notre temps": John Cassavetes

8 Husbands

Couples mythiques du cinéma