Wally Cassell
Wally Cassell (* 3. March 1912 in Agrigento , Sicily as Oswaldo Silvestri Trippilini Rolando Vincenza Castellano ; † 2. April 2015 in Palm Desert , California ) was an American actor of Italian origin.
life and career
Wally Cassell was born in Sicily in 1912, but his family emigrated with him to the United States when he was a toddler. After initially being a dancer, Cassell took on minor roles in Hollywood from 1942, especially as a soldier or sailor in war films. Mickey Rooney helped him get a studio contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . He first attracted attention in 1945 as a soldier of Italian descent who explored his homeland during the war, in a storm of battle on Monte Cassino at the side of Robert Mitchum . In many of his other roles he played the war comrade of the leading actor, for example from John Wayne in You Were Our Comrade from 1949. Cassell also took on supporting roles - often small, but sometimes larger - in film noirs , westerns and gangster strips. He had one of his most famous roles as a member of James Cagey's gang in the classic film Leap to Death (1949) by Raoul Walsh .
From the 1950s, Cassell also took on guest roles in numerous US television series. He quit acting in the early 1960s after over 90 film and television productions. He subsequently became a businessman in business.
Wally Cassell was married to actress Marcy McGuire from 1947 until his death . He had two children; his daughter Cindy appeared as a pony hat in the Erich Kästner film adaptation of Emil and the Detectives (1964). Wally Cassell was in good health until shortly before his death and died at his Palm Desert home in April 2015 at the age of 103.
Filmography (selection)
- 1942: Shadows on the Window (Fingers At The Window)
- 1943: And Life Goes On (The Human Comedy)
- 1943: Night of a Thousand Stars ( Thousands Cheer )
- 1944: Little Girl, Big Heart (National Velvet)
- 1944: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo)
- 1945: Battle storm on Monte Cassino (Story of GI Joe)
- 1945: Vacation in Hollywood (Anchors Aweigh)
- 1945: Son of Lassie
- 1945: Vacation for Love (The Clock)
- 1945: The Thin Man Goes Home (The Thin Man Goes Home)
- 1946: The Postman Always Rings Twice (The Postman Always Rings Twice)
- 1947: The Farm of the Haunted (Ramrod)
- 1948: Johanna von Orleans (Joan of Arc)
- 1948: Love nights in Seville (The Loves of Carmen)
- 1948: We were alien to us (We Were Strangers)
- 1949: Leap to Death (White Heat)
- 1949: You were our comrade (Sands of Iwo Jima)
- 1950: Quicksand
- 1950: The Panther (Highway 301)
- 1951: Apache battle on the black mountains (Oh Susanna!)
- 1951: Hell Riders of the Night (The Wild Blue Yonder)
- 1952: Korea (One Minute to Zero)
- 1953: The Last Signal (Island in the Sky)
- 1953: The Hand on the Colt (Law and Order)
- 1956: On the Beach of Sin (The Come On)
- 1957: Land Without Men (Until They Sail)
- 1959: Al Capone Returns (The Scarface Mob)
- 1960: Two in One Room (The Rat Race)
- 1960: A Thousand Miles of Dust ( Rawhide ; TV series, 1 episode)
- 1963: The Beverly Hillbillies (TV series, 1 episode)
Web links
- Wally Cassell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clipped From The Kingston Spy . In: The Kingston Spy . Kingston, Wisconsin 1945, p. 3 ( newspapers.com [accessed February 20, 2018]).
- ^ Wally Cassell | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved February 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Wally Cassell, Gangster in 'White Heat,' Dies at 103 . In: The Hollywood Reporter . ( hollywoodreporter.com [accessed February 19, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cassell, Wally |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Castellano, Oswaldo Silvestri Trippilini Rolando Vincenza |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Agrigento , Sicily |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd April 2015 |
| Place of death | Palm Desert , California |