John Cassavetes

After studying English and taking drama lessons, it was as an actor that John Cassavetes, son of Greek immigrants, began his film career. He played his first role in Fourteen hours (1951) but was not credited in the credits. In the fifties, he appeared in a large number of cinema productions, notably Face au crime by Don Siegel, and on television. In 1959, he was Johnny Staccato in the American series of the same name.

In 1956, John Cassavetes founded a theatrical workshop in New York, the Variety Art Studio. He made his students work on improvisations which would serve as the basis for his first film as a director. Shadows (1961) features black teenagers in a New York filmed in an almost documentary fashion to music by jazzman Charles Mingus. Shot with a handheld camera and in 16 millimeters, this film exudes a freedom and an intensity that earned Cassavetes the Critics' Prize at the Venice Film Festival, and above all made him a pioneer of independent American cinema, alongside Shirley Clarke. or Jonas Mekas.

This new talent is therefore coveted by Hollywood. He shoots for Paramount his second film, La Ballade des sans-espoirs, a commercial failure, then for United artists A child is waiting (A child is waiting), but this painful experience (Cassavetes must abandon the final cut of the film to its producer Stanley Kramer) will keep him away from the studios for a long time. It will be remembered from A Child Waits that this is the first film in which Gena Rowlands, his wife since 1954, appears. She will later be the heroine of her greatest films, in which she will play rich roles and complexes: a mother on the verge of madness in A Woman Under the Influence, or an actress in crisis in Opening Night.

To finance his films, Cassavetes continues his acting career. His role in Rosemary's Baby, by Roman Polanski, enabled him to direct Faces in 1965, which he shot for six months in his own house. With its long sequence shots, it is a return to the style of Shadows. At the same time, Cassavetes is one of the Twelve Salopards, in the film by Robert Aldrich.

Around the couple John Cassavetes - Gena Rowlands is gradually forming a family of actors, in particular Peter Falk, Seymour Cassel and Ben Gazzara. Cassavetes enjoys filming individuals on the fringes of a conformist and alienating American society. The trips to smoky bars and nightclubs, the scenes of households where Torrents of Love circulate - the title of a film which in 1984 won the Golden Bear in Berlin) - are recurrent in the universe. of the filmmaker. His taste for adrift characters is noticeable even in his forays into the thriller: Murder of a Chinese bookmaker, or Gloria, one of his rare commercial successes.

In 1986, John Cassavetes made his last film, Big trouble, from a screenplay written by Andrew Bergman, when he was already ill. Since his death in 1989, his singular work has never ceased to be rediscovered, especially in France where, in 1992, a retrospective of five of his films was very successful. In 1997, Nick Cassavetes, son of John and Gena Rowlands, directed She's so lovely, from a screenplay written by his father ten years earlier.

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John Cassavetes Net Worth 2022

John Cassavetes 's revenue is $1.4M in 2022. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is John Cassavetes and could vary in the range between $877.4K - $1.1M.

John Cassavetes Net Worth 2021

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John Cassavetes Net Worth 2020

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John Cassavetes Net Worth 2019

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John Cassavetes Net Worth 2018

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John Cassavetes Net Worth 2017

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John Cassavetes Net Worth 2016

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