John Cassavetes Movies

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John Cassavetes (1929-1989) was an Oscar®-nominated American actor, film director, and screenwriter.   Cassavetes was a pioneer of American independent cinema, writing and directing movies financed in part with income from his acting work.  He starred in notable Hollywood films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, including Edge of the City (1957), The Dirty Dozen (1967), and Rosemary’s Baby (1968). His IMDb page shows 110 acting, writing, and directing credits from 1951 to 1986.   This page will rank John Cassavetes movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, uncredited roles, and movies that were not released in North American were not included in the rankings.

1967’s The Dirty Dozen

John Cassavetes Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.

1968’s Rosemary’s Baby

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John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands were a couple on and off the screen.

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15 thoughts on “John Cassavetes Movies”

  1. i saw 4 including top 2. 10 and favorite the dirty dozen. 9 rosemary’s baby. hidden gem edge of the city. i love poitier. the racial tension was palpable, very timely, warden did very well. i liked the effort in a woman under the influence(directorial). the acting was inspired but too dark for my taste or to recommend.

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  2. Much later in 1972 I also thoroughly enjoyed John’s guest villain turn in an episode of the TV series Columbo called Etude in Black. Recently Flora reminded Columbo buffs such as Phil and I that Myrna Loy played Al Leach’s – sorry Cassavetes’ – mother-in-law in that one.

    Cassavetes was passionate about a wide range of music from jazz to classical to rock. “I like all music. It makes you feel like living. Silence is death,” he said. For the soundtrack of Shadows Cassavetes worked with jazz composer and musician Charles Mingus and Shafi Hadi to provide the score. Mingus’s friend Diane Dorr-Dorynek described Cassavetes’s approach to film-making in jazz terms:

    “The script formed the skeleton around which the actors might change or ad lib lines according to their response to the situation at the moment, so that each performance was slightly different. A jazz musician works in this way, using a given musical skeleton and creating out of it, building a musical whole related to a particular moment by listening to and interacting with his fellow musicians. Jazz musicians working with actors could conceivably provide audiences with some of the most moving and alive theatre they have ever experienced.”

    Estimates of John’s net worth at time of death vary from $1-5 million; and IMDB credits him with 12 artistic awards /23 noms of one kind or another. As most -around 60% -were earned back in the pre-Stallone days when formal accolades were harder to come by than they are today that’s a respectable haul especially for a largely supporting actor/independent filmmaker.

    Anyway for my money John had such integrity in movies as both an actor and a technician that I would place him at the TOP of the list of those moviemakers outside the acknowledged Legends who most deserve a Cogerson page
    so this new page is HIGHLY “Voted Up!”

    As said ReaGAN BOWED OUT WITH tHE kILLERS AND DURING ITS SHOOTING jfk WAS ASSASSINATED.

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    1. Hey Bob….Cassavetes directed that episode of Columbo as well. Good information on his other interests, his awards and his net worth. I remember watching him in The Tempest as a pre-teen….I did not understand the movie at all….but his performance was impressive. Glad you liked this selection….his wife is coming soon….as we get to the end of the Joel project. Good stuff as always.

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