FrameThrower · Actors · Seymour Cassel
Seymour Cassel
6 films · 368 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1968–2001
Born 22 January 1935 · Detroit, Michigan, USA · died 7 April 2019
Seymour Joseph Cassel was an American actor who appeared in over 200 films and television shows, with a career spanning over 50 years. He first came to prominence in the 1960s in the pioneering independent films of writer/director John Cassavetes. The first of these was Too Late Blues (1961), followed by Faces (1968), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and won a National Society of Film Critics Award. Cassel went on to appear in Cassavetes's Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), Opening Night (1977), and Love Streams (1984).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 368 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Seymour takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 58% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Seymour takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
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