Wally Cassell (March 3, 1912 â€" April 2, 2015) was an Italian-born
American character actor and businessman.Wally Cassell was born as
Oswaldo Silvestri Trippilini Rolando Vincenza Castellano. (A 1951
newspaper article gives Cassell's real name as Osvaldo Tripolini
Ronaldo Vincennes Castelleno.) The son of Luigi and Luisa Castellano,
Castellano was born in Agrigento, Sicily, and moved with his family to
the United States when he was two years of age. (Another source says
that his parents brought him to Brooklyn, New York, "when I was a babe
in arms.") As a youngster, Cassell was a dancer, but he abandoned
dancing to concentrate on acting.Cassell began his film career in
1942, initially working in small, uncredited roles. Mickey Rooney,
with whom Cassell appears in the 1950 film noir Quicksand, is credited
with suggesting the change of name to Wally Cassell. Rooney is also
credited with helping Cassell gain a screen test and a contract with
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.His films include The Thin Man Goes Home (1945),
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945), The Clock (1945), The Postman Always
Rings Twice (1946), Guilty (1947), Loves of Carmen (1948), Saigon
(1948), Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), White Heat (1949),Quicksand (1950),
City That Never Sleeps (1953), Island in the Sky (1953), Law and Order
(1953), Princess of the Nile (1954), Until They Sail (1957), and I,
Madman (1989).
American character actor and businessman.Wally Cassell was born as
Oswaldo Silvestri Trippilini Rolando Vincenza Castellano. (A 1951
newspaper article gives Cassell's real name as Osvaldo Tripolini
Ronaldo Vincennes Castelleno.) The son of Luigi and Luisa Castellano,
Castellano was born in Agrigento, Sicily, and moved with his family to
the United States when he was two years of age. (Another source says
that his parents brought him to Brooklyn, New York, "when I was a babe
in arms.") As a youngster, Cassell was a dancer, but he abandoned
dancing to concentrate on acting.Cassell began his film career in
1942, initially working in small, uncredited roles. Mickey Rooney,
with whom Cassell appears in the 1950 film noir Quicksand, is credited
with suggesting the change of name to Wally Cassell. Rooney is also
credited with helping Cassell gain a screen test and a contract with
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.His films include The Thin Man Goes Home (1945),
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945), The Clock (1945), The Postman Always
Rings Twice (1946), Guilty (1947), Loves of Carmen (1948), Saigon
(1948), Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), White Heat (1949),Quicksand (1950),
City That Never Sleeps (1953), Island in the Sky (1953), Law and Order
(1953), Princess of the Nile (1954), Until They Sail (1957), and I,
Madman (1989).
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