He was a frequent collaborator of directors John Cassavetes and Wes Anderson.
By Harrison Smith Harrison Smith Obituary writer Email Bio Follow April 9 at 6:28 PM Seymour Cassel, an Oscar-nominated character actor who played raconteurs, street toughs and cha-cha-dancing hoodlums, frequently collaborating with independent filmmakers John Cassavetes and Wes Anderson, died April 7 at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 84.Mr.
Mr. Cassel in 2006. He served as an associate producer on “Shadows” and went on to appear in a half-dozen Cassavetes films, including “Faces” , a study of loneliness for which he received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. He played a hippie, Chet, who spends the night with a lonely middle-aged married woman, revives her after she tries to overdose on sleeping pills, then leaps out her bedroom window and skitters down the roof after her husband comes home.
“In the Soup” , in which Mr. Cassel played a wisecracking gangster to Buscemi’s straight-man, aspiring screenwriter, helped revive Mr. Cassel’s career. In 2012, the Oldenburg International Film Festival, often described as the German equivalent of Sundance, named an acting award in his honor.
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