A very serious and respected actor leaves behind a stellar body of work. Ben Gazzara worked with John Cassavetes five times and appeared in Road House and The Big Lebowski. I especially liked his take on Al Capone in the Corman-produced Capone in 1975 and his murderous stripclub owner Cosmo Vitelli in Cassavetes’s edgy thriller The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie in 1976. He had pancreatic cancer.
From The New York Times:
Ben Gazzara, an intense actor whose long career included playing Brick in the original Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Broadway, roles in influential films by John Cassavetes and work with several generations of top Hollywood directors, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 81. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his lawyer, Jay Julien, said. Mr. Gazzara lived in Manhattan.
Mr. Gazzara studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in Manhattan, where the careers of stars like Marlon Brando...
From The New York Times:
Ben Gazzara, an intense actor whose long career included playing Brick in the original Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Broadway, roles in influential films by John Cassavetes and work with several generations of top Hollywood directors, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 81. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his lawyer, Jay Julien, said. Mr. Gazzara lived in Manhattan.
Mr. Gazzara studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in Manhattan, where the careers of stars like Marlon Brando...
- 2/5/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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