David S. Cass Sr.(1942-2020)
- Actor
- Stunts
- Director
Cass began his career in the motion picture industry as an extra - but
soon he was alternating between acting parts and stunt work. The stunt
work eventually prevailed and Cass went on to become one of Hollywood's
top stunt co-ordinators and Second Unit Directors. This led to his
producing several films which, in turn, led to first-unit directing.
Dave has co-produced Miramax Films' Texas Rangers: La revanche des justiciers (2001); a trio of Burt Reynolds' TV movies titled Hard time - Coup dur (1998), for the TNT network - writing one episode, and directing another, Sans compromis (1999). He has also co-written several other films including Au service de Satan (1972) and Hard Ground (2003). Dave was the director of The Hallmark Channel's mini-series, Johnson County War (2002), another take on the infamous Wyoming cattle wars, this one an adaptation by Larry McMurtry. Cass has directed two Gentle Ben TV movies, plus Night of the Wolf (2002), starring Anne Archer and Robert Urich, for Animal Planet.
And from Hallmark, again, David directed a city girl/country boy love story, Amour des villes, amour des champs (2003), which garnered the highest ratings ever for a Hallmark Channel TV Movie.
Dave has co-produced Miramax Films' Texas Rangers: La revanche des justiciers (2001); a trio of Burt Reynolds' TV movies titled Hard time - Coup dur (1998), for the TNT network - writing one episode, and directing another, Sans compromis (1999). He has also co-written several other films including Au service de Satan (1972) and Hard Ground (2003). Dave was the director of The Hallmark Channel's mini-series, Johnson County War (2002), another take on the infamous Wyoming cattle wars, this one an adaptation by Larry McMurtry. Cass has directed two Gentle Ben TV movies, plus Night of the Wolf (2002), starring Anne Archer and Robert Urich, for Animal Planet.
And from Hallmark, again, David directed a city girl/country boy love story, Amour des villes, amour des champs (2003), which garnered the highest ratings ever for a Hallmark Channel TV Movie.
