In The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, John Cassavetes, 1976.
My Gazzara pantheon: The Strange One, 1957; Anatomy of a Murder, 1959; A Rage To Live, 1965; The Bridge at Remagen, 1969; Husbands, 1970; The Killing of a Chinese Bookie,1976; Opening Night, 1977; Saint Jack, 1979; They All Laughed, 1981; Tales of Ordinary Madness, 1982; Road House, 1989; The Spanish Prisoner, 1997; Buffalo '66, 1998; Happiness, 1998; The Big Lebowski, 1998; Illuminata, 1998; Summer of Sam, 1999; Dogville, 2003; Paris, je t'aime ("Quartier Latin" episode), 2006.
Jackie Treehorn drew a lot of water in this town. :-(
Posted by: Oliver_C | February 04, 2012 at 01:00 PM
THEY ALL LAUGHED is such a beautiful, funny film, and he's perfect in it.
Posted by: Brian | February 04, 2012 at 03:34 PM
I'm glad to see some love for THE STRANGE ONE in so many of the tributes I've read.
Posted by: Tony Dayoub | February 04, 2012 at 03:40 PM
Remembering Ben Gazzara in Run for your Life is to know that good TV did not begin with the Sopranos.
Posted by: bosque | February 04, 2012 at 05:10 PM
Marco Ferreri's "Tales of Ordinary Madness" is a favorite Gazzara performance of mine along with "The Killing of A Chinese Bookie."
Peter Bogdanovich's "Saint Jack" is also lovely.
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | February 04, 2012 at 07:32 PM
Few actors could touch Gazzara in expressing a character who when smiling was in deep deep shit.
Posted by: haice | February 04, 2012 at 11:35 PM
Top comment.
Posted by: Hauser Tann | February 05, 2012 at 01:37 PM