Nick Cassavetes

AKA:
Nicholas Cassavetes
Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
05/21/1959
Birthplace:
New York, New York
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biography
This tall (6'4"), handsome supporting player of feature films and TV gradually began playing leading roles in B-movies and the occasional supporting turn in big studio films, but then shifted career tracks to became a very capable director. Scion of maverick independent filmmaker and actor John Cassavetes and actor Gena Rowlands, Cassavetes decided to take acting seriously after injuring himself while on a sports scholarship at Syracuse University. He had previously played a youth in his father's acclaimed "A Woman Under the Influence" (1974) but made his first film as an adult in a small part Continued
Credits
Writer
2008
Director
2007
Screenplay
2007
Director
2004
Director
2002
screenplay
2001
Alex Streck
1999
Sargeant Dillard
1999
Director
1997
Dietrich Hassler
1997
Screenplay
1996
Director
1996
screenplay
1996
Mikey Acosta
Lyle Pike
Actor
Packard Walsh
Valence
Jack Nietzsche
Major Charles Stewart
John Madler
Johnny Verona
Dr Jonathon Brooks
milestones
Year
Milestone
1974 
Feature film debut, "A Woman Under the Influence", directed by John Cassavetes and starring Gena Rowlands
1980 
TV-movie acting debut, "Reunion"
1985 
Made first film as an adult, "Mask"
1990 
Made episodic TV debut in a guest spot, "The Marshall Chronicles"
1996 
Feature film directing debut, "Unhook the Stars", starring his mother Gena Rowlands
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