Biography
Seymour Joseph Cassel (January 22, 1935 – April 7, 2019) 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 Minni...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet
2020
as Cancelled
The episodes "A Piece of the Action" and "Batman's Satisfaction" have been edited together, along with other scenes and period TV promos of the 1966 t...

Every Night's a Saturday Night
2018
as Self
The Life & Times of Bobby Keys ... decades-long Sax player with The Rolling Stones, best friend to Keith Richards, and session player with John Lennon...

Lucky Dog
2014
as The Real Spencer
Travis is a divorced architect and devoted father of two who has a hard time handling his unruly dog, Lucky, especially when he goes on dates, which L...

The Dependables
2014
as Dominic Ackers
Five retired ex-military men attempt the unthinkable and dust off their old uniforms for one last explosive mission. The team quickly discovers that t...

Fort McCoy
2014
as Father Mivkovek
Unable to serve in World War II because of a heart condition, a barber moves his family adjacent to a Wisconsin army base and prisoner-of-war camp to ...

At The Maple Grove
2014
as Boyle
Driven by a desire to live forever through cinema, aspiring filmmaker Nathaniel Heaton sets out to fuse his life into the narrative of a movie in this...

The Secret Lives of Dorks
2013
as Principal
In The Secret Lives of Dorks, Payton (Gaelan Connell) is a pathetic dork, a comic book geek whose high school career is one hopeless faux pas after an...

Booster
2012
as Harold
When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted. Caugh...

Broken Kingdom
2012
as Clayton
Four separate narratives weave their way together in this impactful drama, from the harrowing slums of Bogotá to the hills of Hollywood. A 14-year-old...

Lost Angeles
2012
as Film Critic
A homeless convict is released from jail and comes to Los Angeles where he passes himself off as a legitimate photographer and becomes embroiled in a ...

Kingdom Come
2012
as Self
The documentary, Kingdom Come follows a first-time director (Daniel Gillies) as he tries to raise a million dollars to finance his first film, Broken ...
Pass the Salt, Please
2012
as Man
Dinner. A glass of wine. Stimulating conversation. What better way to wind down the day? A couples dinner repartee quickly morphs into a scene ripped ...

Silver Case
2012
as Dealer
In TInseltown, the world of scheming and dreaming reaches a particularly nasty low when a powerful producer known as the 'Senator' hatches a plan to u...

Faces
2011
as Chet (archive footage)
James Benning’s "remake" of John Cassavetes’s Faces (1968) is an unexpected venture into the world of found footage filmmaking. As Benning explains, h...

Freerunner
2011
as Grampa
With a ticking bomb locked to his neck, a young freerunner races against the clock and all types of baddies to get from one end of the city to the oth...

L!fe Happens
2011
as Pop Pop
A comedy centered on two best friends, Kim and Deena, who fight to maintain normalcy in their lives after Kim gets pregnant and has a baby.

Without Borders
2010
as Detective McKenneth
Thanasis, a cotton candy vendor from Athens, has been caring for little Melissa since she was a baby when her mother, an immigrant prostitute, thought...

Pete Smalls Is Dead
2010
as Saco
Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead.
Back Nine
2010
as Mondo
A past-his-prime professional golfer plays small time tourneys to re-qualify for the PGA.

The Aristofrogs
2010
A short promotional film for the 2010 Oldenburg Film Festival consisting of various actors and film personalities telling a joke about an exceptionall...

Chasing 3000
2010
as Poppy
As the 1972 baseball season draws to a close and star player Roberto Clemente prepares to knock hit number 3,000 out of the park, two brothers -- one ...

Staten Island
2009
as Jasper Sabiano
Sully is desperate to give his unborn son the chance he never had. Jasper wants to escape the mobsters that have infiltrated his life and business. Pa...
Not Dead Yet
2009
as Francis
A poignant comedy about three midlife women who join forces to revive their acting careers, "Not Dead Yet" brings a dramatic new perspective to a rang...

To Love and Die
2008
as Grandfather
Hildy Young, a fun-loving 30-something with abandonment issues, becomes convinced that her dating problems will be resolved if she can only track down...

Reach for Me
2008
as Alvin
Old and bitter, Alvin just wants some peace and quiet in his last days. His wish, however, is not granted when a young, vibrant and ironically full of...

Beau Jest
2008
as Abe Goldman
BEAU JEST is the hilarious, heartwarming story about Sarah Goldman, a beautiful young school teacher from Chicago who is involved with Chris, a great ...
Big city Heart
2008
as Larry
A recidivist horse better in search of his missing girlfriend discovers that though circumstances seem to indicate that something horrible has occurre...

Cosmic Radio
2007
as Malcolm Stone
A 38-year-old California trust fund kid tries to save his independent radio station, KZMC Cosmic Radio, from financial ruin when his wealthy father pu...

Postal
2007
as Paul
The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a violent rampage when he teams up with cult leader Uncle...

Hollywood Dreams
2007
as Rupert
The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising young actor, though their relationship threatens to ...

Sea of Dreams
2006
On an island across the sea lies a village full of romance, wonder and mystery; a timeless place where people carry strong beliefs that can fulfill th...

Beer League
2006
as Dirt
An unemployed slacker inspires his softball teammates to improve their game to avoid getting kicked out of the local league.

Ray of Sunshine
2006
Rachael, an aspiring pianist with a troubled past, disguises herself as a boy and searches for her father, a free-wheeling musician who abandoned her ...

Edge of Outside
2006
as Self
An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and ...

The Tenants
2006
as Levenspiel
The story of a Jewish novelist, Harry Lesser, struggling to complete his latest work, and his antagonistic relationship with a black writer who moves ...

Bye Bye Benjamin
2006
as Mr. Ruby
Benjamin Osgood, a savvy ten-year-old business executive, meets a coworker's daughter, and must decide how grown up he wants to be.

Lonesome Jim
2005
as Don
After failing to find success as a writer in New York City, Jim slinks back to his family's home in the Midwest to lick his wounds. But his visit is q...

Circadian Rhythm
2005
as Hoover
Attractive 24 year old Sarah Caul finds herself in a bare white room with no idea who she is or how she got there. Quickly she becomes caught up in a ...

Before It Had a Name
2005
as Jeff
A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York country side, and goes to see it for the first time. ...

The Wendell Baker Story
2005
as Boyd Fullbright
Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends the...

This Is an Adventure
2005
as Self
During production on the film "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", documentary filmmakers followed the cast and crew of a film which depicts other do...

Bittersweet Place
2005
as Jack 'Pappy' Schaffer
The story of the Schaffer family, made up of terminally ill father Jack and his two daughters, bipolar Pappy, and Susannah, who tries to keep the fami...

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004
as Esteban du Plantier
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is...

Making 'Faces'
2004
as Self
A documentary featuring interviews with actors Lynn Carlin, Gena Rowlands, and Seymour Cassel, and cinematographer Al Ruban, in which they recall how ...

Stuck on You
2003
as Morty O'Reilly
In Martha's Vineyard, Mass., conjoined twins Walt and Bob Tenor make the best of their handicap by being the fastest grill cooks in town. While outgoi...

Passionada
2003
as Daniel Vargas
The film is a romantic comedy about the Portuguese widow of a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter, who wants to be a professional ...

A Good Night to Die
2003
as Guy
One day in the life of a hit man, Ronnie, who spends it trying to save the life of fellow hit man, August, who he had brought into the business three ...

Sonny
2002
as Albert
New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home. The only life he's known is as a gigolo, working for his mother, but h...

The Burial Society
2002
as Sam Goldberg
In The Burial Society, Sheldon Kasner, an unlikely criminal who works as a bank loan manager, infiltrates the mysterious world of the Chevrah Kadisha ...

Manna from Heaven
2002
as Stanley
Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was ...

Stealing Harvard
2002
as Uncle Jack
John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John finds...

The Biz
2002
as Eugene Hinkle
Have you ever wondered what the day-to-day trials and tribulations of a working actress are in America's dream factory, Hollywood? What does it take t...

The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
as Spectator at Execution (uncredited)
A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but hi...

The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
as Dusty
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all...

The Cure for Boredom
2001
as Eddie
Sex, love and murder abound when two guys, two waitresses and a group of mobsters meet.

61*
2001
as Sam Simon
In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally ha...

Bartleby
2001
as Frank Waxman
An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office.

The Sleepy Time Gal
2001
as Bob
A young woman learns of her adoption and eventually quits her law firm job and goes on a journey to find her birth mother.

Women of the Night
2001
as Sally
Three entwined stories of love, lust, danger and revenge.

Animal Factory
2000
as Lt. Seeman
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug deale...

Just One Night
2000
as Arthur Imperial
A man (Timothy Hutton) spends the night before his wedding searching for his lost shoe with the help of an unhappily married woman (Maria Grazia Cucin...

The Crew
2000
as Tony 'Mouth' Donato
Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.

The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
as Self
An exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary by Eric Chase Anderson.

A Constant Forge
2000
as Self
One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of American independent movies. The actor-turned-filmma...

Black & White
1999
as Sal
Chris O'Brien, devote Catholic and rookie cop with LAPD, is assigned to partner with the hard-edged, street-smart Nora Hugosian. A serial killer is lo...

Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
1999
as Self
Documentary about the making and history of the film "Easy Rider."

Kubanisch rauchen
1999
as Dragan
Paul and Bernd take over a small upscale antique store together. On one nightly excursion, Bernd introduces Paul and Lisa with each other. What was in...

Me and Will
1999
as Roy
Two women with a passion for motorcycles meet while going through rehab. When they discover they've both longed to ride Captain America's red, white, ...

Ballad of the Nightingale
1999
as Jimmy
A down-on-her luck prostitute embarks on a wild adventure that puts her in contact with the Mafia.

Rushmore
1998
as Bert Fischer
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls i...

Stingers
1998
as Dino
Two down-and-out barflies wind up in over their heads when they steal a briefcase filled with valuable coins.

Emma's Wish
1998
as Harry Bridges (old)
A lonely retirement home resident obtains a magical ring on her 75th birthday which grants her wish to again be young. Awakening the next morning she ...

Snapped
1998
as Bob
Snapped examines the lives of a colorful group of young people as they try to connect with each other and stay amused in a sleepy Long Island town. Ta...

The Treat
1998
as Chip O'Herlihee
The lives of four strange prostitutes will change forever when they go to the Mayor's birthday party.

Hoods
1998
as Pop Martinelli (uncredited)
A 50-year-old mobster struggles to carry out his father's order to execute a rival's 9-year-old child.

Relax... It's Just Sex
1998
as Emile Pillsbury
A tight-knit group of thirty-somethings -- gay, lesbian and straight -- struggle to live, love and stay friends in modern-day Los Angeles as circumsta...

Johnny 316
1998
as Store Keeper
A preacher without resources spends his days reciting Bible verses. One day he meets a young jobless girl who wanders on Hollywood Boulevard. An impos...

Motel Blue
1997
as Capistrano Minister
Kyle Rivers has joined the Dpt of Defense as an investigator. Her first assignment is to do a background check on Lana Hawking, scientist for a top se...

Obsession
1997
as Jacob Frischmuth
Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about...

This World, Then the Fireworks
1997
as Detective Harris
In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through seduction and murder...

Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
as Self
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "wor...

Cannes Man
1997
as Sy Lerner
Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab d...

Chameleon
1996
as Francis
After fatally shooting a stalker, Parisian bar-maid Lea must live the life of the title reptile. At the time of the killing she was living with Franci...

Dead Girl
1996
as Ira Golub
Ari Rose is a failing actor who cannot distinguish between reality and fantasy. He first dreams about and then meets in real life a mysterious woman n...
Turnpike
1996
as Older man
Two men take a journey through crowded Parisian streets, interacting and disrupting everyday life.

The Last Home Run
1996
as Older Jonathan
Dying doctor Jonathan Lyle's last wish is granted, to be young again and play baseball, but only for five days.
Slaughter of the Cock
1996
as Ahilleas
Longing for a better life, Evagoras and Onisilios decide to emigrate to the Persian Gulf to earn enough money to start their own business. When they r...

Trees Lounge
1996
as Uncle Al
Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other r...

Things I Never Told You
1996
as Frank
Don is a real estate salesman who volunteers at a "hotline for hope". Ann, who works in a photo store, has been told by her boyfriend that he doesn't ...

Dream for an Insomniac
1996
as Uncle Leo
A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks ...
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
1996
as Self

Seed
1996
as First Client
In the course of a single night, Miriam realizes that her life is worth more than the $65 price tag she puts on it.

Dead Presidents
1995
as Saul
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself ...
Tollbooth
1994
as Leon / Larry
A young woman’s dreams of love are trapped in an empty life of broken promises and futile hopes, as she desperately awaits the return of her long-miss...
Ouf!
1994
Slapstick - a tribute to 100 years of cinema: authorities, in their efforts to create order, often create disorder, not noticing this.

Imaginary Crimes
1994
as Eddie
A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1960s Portland, Oregon.

Hand Gun
1994
as Jack McCallister
Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack manages to hide the $500,000 from the robbery before ...

There Goes My Baby
1994
as Pop
It's the summer of 1965, and the members of the graduating class of upscale Westwood High are eager to reinvent themselves. Valedictorian Mary Beth wa...

Dark Side of Genius
1994
as Samuel Rourke
Julian Jons is a talented but troubled young artist. He has just been released from an asylum, where he has spent the last seven years for the murder ...

It Could Happen to You
1994
as Jack Gross
Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winni...

Chasers
1994
as Master Chief Bogg
Military men Rock Reilly and Eddie Devane are tasked with taking a prisoner, blonde bombshell Toni Johnson, on what becomes an unforgettable road trip...
Partners
1993
as Janitor
A junior partner in a law firm, finds out that the wife of a very important client is a former college sweetheart.

When Pigs Fly
1993
as Frank
The ghosts of a middle-aged woman and a precocious little girl help an unwed jazz musician and a bar dancer reverse their bad fortune.

Anything for John
1993
as Self
An intimate portrait of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to his genius for studying and depicting the human character. In-de...

Boiling Point
1993
as Virgil Leach
Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Th...

Indecent Proposal
1993
as Mr. Shackleford
John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife.

Trouble Bound
1993
as Santino
Upon getting out of prison, a man who took the rap for some thief buddies gets together with them again, and tells them he's not interested in doing t...

Adventures in Spying
1992
as Ray Rucker
Two teens spot a notorious criminal who is supposed to be dead.

In the Soup
1992
as Joe
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.

Honeymoon in Vegas
1992
as Tony Cataracts
On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. T...

Love Is Like That
1992
as Uncle Bud
A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary....

Cold Heaven
1992
as Tom Farrelly
An adulterous woman's faith in God is tested when her husband dies and miraculously comes back to life.

Chain of Desire
1992
as Mel
A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire.

What Happened to Pete
1992
as Bartender
Pete, a customer in a quiet bar somewhere in dull small-town America. Pete needs money and he tries to sell the barman his collection of forties and f...

Face of a Stranger
1991
as Ralph
After the death of her husband, Pat learns that he gambled away all of their savings and that she's now destitute. She may even have to leave their ap...

Dead in the Water
1991
as Lt. Frank Vaness
Charlie Deegan has almost everything he has ever wanted. He has an important law practice, a beautiful secretary as his lover, and the chance to be ap...

Diary of a Hitman
1991
as Koenig
A veteran hitman, Dekker is ready to call it quits and leave the profession. His final job, however, proves to be trickier than expected when a sadist...

Mobsters
1991
as Father Bonotto
The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime.....

White Fang
1991
as Skunker
Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a...

Cold Dog Soup
1990
as Jojo
A taxi driver (Quaid) pounds Zen parables (if time money, is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of the...

Dick Tracy
1990
as Sam Catchem
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Ca...

Sweet Bird of Youth
1989
as Hatcher
Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes...
Arena - John Cassavetes
1989
as Self
Tribute to actor and director John Cassavetes who died in February 1989. Friends, associates and fellow directors remember the man and his work.

Wicked Stepmother
1989
as Feldshine
A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family's home and cause havoc, one at a time since they share one body & the other must live in ...

Track 29
1988
as Dr. Bernard Fairmont
Years after a desperate teenage Linda gives up her baby for adoption, she finds herself face-to-face with Martin, a young man claiming to be her long-...

Colors
1988
as Sullivan
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enfor...

Plain Clothes
1988
as Ed Malmburg
To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with crushes, bullies, humiliations, popularity swings...

Johnny Be Good
1988
as Wallace Gibson
It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one ...

Survival Game
1987
as Dave Forrest
Double-crossed by both the gangsters and the police, Michael must use his martial-arts talent to rescue his girlfriend's dad.

Best Seller
1987
as Carter
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians ...

Tin Men
1987
as Cheese
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.

Eye of the Tiger
1986
as Sheriff
Buck is a Vietnam vet, recently released from prison. He returns home to discover the town being terrorized by a vicious motorcycle gang. When the bi...

Beverly Hills Madam
1986
as Tony
A bordello catering to rich and wealthy clients, run by Lil Hutton experiences a series of crises as one girl ends up pregnant, and another dead. As a...

I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
1984
as Self
Filmmaker Michael Ventura follows Cassavetes around as the actor/director labors on his final film, Love Streams.

Young Lust: A Soap Opera
1984
as Dr. Klapper
The reunion of Garytown High School’s class of ‘71 is a catalyst for a series of comic crises involving sex, drugs, murder and anatomical oddities.

Love Streams
1984
as Jack Lawson
Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.

I Want to Live
1983
as John Santo
The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her partici...

Double Exposure
1982
as Dr. Frank Curtis
A photographer for a men's magazine is haunted by disturbing dreams, in which he slaughters his models. When he learns that these models are dying in ...

King of the Mountain
1981
as Barry Tanner
A group of friends race their high-powered cars up and down a dangerous and deadly mountain road known as Mulholland Drive to see who can claim the ti...

The Jazz Singer
1980
as Unnamed
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

The Mountain Men
1980
as La Bont
The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Runn...

Angel on My Shoulder
1980
as Smiley Mitchell
A small-time Chicago hood, now deceased, gets a second chance at life by striking a bargain with the Devil to inhabit and attempt to corrupt a totally...

Sunburn
1979
as Dobbs
A model and a private eye help a New York insurance investigator on a deadly case in Acapulco.

Ravagers
1979
as Blind Lawyer
In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their w...

California Dreaming
1979
as Duke Slusarski
Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden...

Convoy
1978
as Governor Haskins
Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But connivin...

Opening Night
1977
as Self (uncredited)
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about agin...

Valentino
1977
as George Ullman
The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.

Death Game
1977
as George Manning
George Manning is a well-to-do businessman, husband, and father. While his family is away on his birthday, he invites a pair of rain-soaked young wome...

Black Oak Conspiracy
1977
as Homer Metcalf
An average Joe is pitted against a crooked sheriff and unscrupulous land grabbers in this tale of small town corruption and revenge.

Scott Joplin
1977
as Dr. Jaelki
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.

The Last Tycoon
1976
as Seal Trainer
Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
1976
as Mort Weil
Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff wh...

Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
1975
as Wise Guy
A film without a beginning or an end, Moment to Moment is a rush of curious sketches, scenes, and shots that takes on a rhythmic life of its own.

Nightside
1973
as Ralph
The story of three people - a press agent, a private detective and a nightclub owner - whose careers require them to spend most of the night awake and...

Minnie and Moskowitz
1971
as Seymour Moskowitz
Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore wonders if she'll ever find love. After shaggy-haired park...

The Revolutionary
1970
as Leonard II
"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radica...

Faces
1968
as Chet
Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a...

Coogan's Bluff
1968
as Young Hood
Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads int...

The Hanged Man
1964
as Bellboy
A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union leader responsible but finds he isn't the only one aft...

The Killers
1964
as Postal Clerk
A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.

The Nutty Professor
1963
as Bored Man
A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game wor...

The Webster Boy
1962
as Vic
A gambler comes out of prison, returns to his old-flame, and finds that she has a teenage son, who begins to believe that the ex-con is his father.

Too Late Blues
1961
as Red
Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His perip...

Shadows
1960
as Al (uncredited)
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz sing...

Shadows
1960
Associate Producer
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz sing...

Murder, Inc.
1960
as Teenager
Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusing on powerful boss Lepke and violent hit man Reles...

Man on a String
1960
U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy.

Juke Box Racket
1960
as Seymour
Mario, a gangster, takes the fifth amendment when being questioned by the Senate Sub Committee on his connection with racketeering within the juke box...