Cassavetes' Life and Work -- A Brief Overview of Cassavetes' Acting and Directing Career

The material on this site is provided by Ray Carney, the world's expert on John Cassavetes' life and work. He has written more than ten books (in seven languages) about John Cassavetes.

I am grateful to Paul Harrill and Alex Cruikshank for providing some of the material for this section, but would note that some of the information is incorrect or out-of-date. For up-to-date information, see my Cassavetes on Cassavetes and Shadows books and those sections of the site.

• Gateway
• His life
• His films
  • Shadows (1959)
  • Too Late Blues (1962)
  • A Child is Waiting (1963)
  • Faces (1968)
  • Husbands (1970)
  • Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
  • A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
  • The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
  • Opening Night (1978)
  • Gloria (1980)
  • Love Streams (1984)
• His words
• A list of events in the first forty years of Cassavetes' early career
  • Beginnings: 1929-1956
  • Shadows and Johnny Staccato: 1957-1959
  • Too Late Blues and A Child is Waiting: 1960-1962
  • Faces: 1963-1968
• A chronology covering the final ten years of Cassavetes' life and the nineteen years following his death
  • 1979-1990
  • 1990-1995
  • 1996-2000
  • 2001-2005
  • 2006-2007
• Ray Carney talks about Cassavetes as an actor
• Cassavetes' work acting and directing for television
• Ray Carney talks about the use of photographs in film books
• A John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands scrapbook—A photographic record of clippings from fan magazines
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• A Cassavetes bibliography
• To buy books and essays that discuss Cassavetes life and work

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