John Cassavetes

John Cassavetes was born in New York in 1929, to Greek parents. A graduate in 1950 of a New York academy of dramatic art, he acted on television and in cinema, and financed his first film with donations from listeners of a radio programme on which he had made an appeal. He directed twelve films in twenty-seven years, often with his wife Gena Rowlands and his friends, acting for the studios in order to pay for his own. He died in Los Angeles in 1989, aged fifty-nine.

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• CinemaA Woman Under the InfluenceJohn Cassavetes · 1974Cinema