# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/seymour-cassel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:56:50.334Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/seymour-cassel"
name: "Seymour Cassel"
slug: "seymour-cassel"
description: "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)."
tagline: "American actor (1935–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Seymour_Cassel2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1935-01-22"
deathDate: "2019-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.02352
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0001025"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump