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  2. Apr 17, 2024 · He began his acting career in earnest with a small role in the motion picture Taxi (1953) and an appearance on television the next year in an episode of Omnibus. By the end of 1955, he had acted in many live television shows.

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  3. Sep 26, 2004 · Even when he played the Hollywood game, Cassavetes took it on the chin. One of the greats of American cinema and a genius of his own filmmaking system, Cassavetes died Feb. 3, 1989, at 59 of ...

  4. Feb 22, 2024 · John Cassavetes was an actor and director who pioneered independent cinema in America and made several masterpieces. Most people will recognize John Cassavetes from his performance as Guy in the 1968 horror classic Rosemary’s Baby or as Victor in the 1967 The Dirty Dozen, but his triumphs as a film director are the reason why he will forever ...

  5. In the late 1980s, Cassavetes suffered from health problems and his career was in decline. He died in 1989 from cirrhosis of the liver caused by many years of heavy drinking. He was only 59 years old.

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  6. May 21, 2018 · Begun as an improvisational exercise in the method-acting workshop that actor John Cassavetes was teaching, and partly financed by his earnings from the Johnny Staccato television series, Shadows was a loosely plotted, heavily improvised work of cinema verité immediacy that explored human relationships and racial identity against the ...

  7. Dec 23, 2012 · Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara and John Cassavetes: Husbands. Tell us more about the experience of doing Husbands. Well, John and I became dear, dear friends. We did a couple films together after that and we would’ve done more.

  8. On February 3, 1989, John Cassavetes died. Son Nick continued in his father's footsteps, working as an actor as well as the director of the films Unhook the Stars (1996) and She's So Lovely (1997), the latter an adaptation of one of his father's unfilmed screenplays.

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