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Nickname:	John Cassavetes / Nick Colasanto /
Known for:	Rosemary's Baby, Opening Night, The Dirty Dozen
Birth name:	John Nicholas Cassavetes
Birthday:	9 December 1929, New York, New York, USA
Height:	5' 7" (1.70 m)

Father of Nick Cassavetes, Alexandra Cassavetes and Zoe R. Cassavetes. Son of Katherine Cassavetes. Friend/actor Peter Falk said: "Cassavetes was the most fervent man I ever met, and he didn't have a copy-cat bone in his body." A photograph of Cassavetes, taken during the production of his film Husbands, appears on one stamp of a sheet of 10 USA 37¢ commemorative postage stamps, issued 25 February 2003, celebrating American Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes. The stamp honors directing. Educated at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 189-194. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988. Friend/actor Peter Falk said: "Every Cassavetes film is always about the same thing. Somebody said 'Man is God in ruins,' and John saw the ruins with a clarity that you and I could not tolerate." In Ray Carney's "Cassavetes on Cassavetes" book, Cassavetes confessed to his parents that he wanted to be an actor. His father wasn't initially thrilled at the idea of his son being an actor, but told him that he had to work hard because he would be portraying human emotions truthfully. He was fully Greek in heritage. Auditioned for The Actors Studio when he was starting out as an actor, but was rejected. Despite many claiming that his films are improvised, it's actually a completed script that comes from improvised work by the actors. Another trademark of his films is that they're shot documentary-style. He and Gena Rowlands made 10 movies together: A Child Is Waiting, Faces , Gloria, Love Streams, Minnie and Moskowitz, Opening Night, A Woman Under the Influence, Machine Gun McCain, Two-Minute Warning and Tempest Directed 3 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Seymour Cassel, Lynn Carlin and Gena Rowlands, ' He and his good friend Ben Gazzara made 5 movies together: Husbands, Capone, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, Opening Night and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie He and his good friend Peter Falk made 6 movies together: Husbands, Machine Gun McCain, Mikey and Nicky, Opening Night, Big Trouble, A Woman Under the Influence and one movie made for TV: Columbo: Étude in Black Born to Nicholas John Cassavetes and Katherine Demetri.

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