Yeah and the cheap beers too. I don't go there that often though.
Very very good one.
Cazale was born in Revere, Massachusetts, to an Irish-American mother, Cecilia Holland, and an Italian-American father, John Cazale.
High school at the Buxton School in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he joined the drama club. He studied drama at Oberlin College in Ohio, transferring to Boston University, where he studied under Peter Kass.
Kass taught at Boston University in the 1950s, then at New York University in the 1960s and 1970s before becoming a private instructor. Students included Olympia Dukakis, Faye Dunaway, Maureen Stapleton and Val Kilmer.
Upon graduation, Cazale worked as a cab driver, as he started his theatrical career at the Charles Playhouse, appearing in Hotel Paradiso and Our Town in 1959. Reviewing his performance as George Gibbs in Our Town, critic Jean Pierre Frankenhuis said "(Cazale's) portrayal is absolutely stupendous, hilarious, touching, thrilling. We found ourselves wishing that there were more scenes with him, such is the enjoyable performance he gives: a comedian of the first order!
In the early 60's Cazale moved to New York City and supported himself as a photographer. Eventually he got a job as a messenger at Standard Oil where he happened to work with another Actor who would become a very good friend of his, the two of them even getting cast in plays around NYC together and renting rooms in the same Actor House where actors and others involved in the NYC Theatrical scene in the 1960's could rent cheap rooms while they lived the lives of the starving artists.
The Actor that Cazale happened to meet by sheer chance of working at Standard Oil went on to become very very famous.
And its a name all of you know well.
Answer to who that actor was (and still is) can be found at the link at the very bottom of this post.
Drama.
But not "Johnny Drama."
But not "Johnny Drama."
...but, yeah: this guy would have gone on to do much more great work. Great mention here.
'That guy a lot of guys recognize but never knew'.
Such is the life of the "Character Actor".
No doubt whatsoever that John Cazale was among the greatest of these to ever choose that occupation.
Cazale introduced that now famous but back then totally unknown Actor I mentioned above to a new girlfriend whom he raved about. The Actor thought his friend was simply infatuated, “She seemed alright. A bit shy.”
