Celebrity Biographies
Val Avery
Val Avery had been playing the most diverse characters for more than 50 years. He was one of those excellent regular actors in the John Cassavetes movies, and has an extensive career consisting of television series and feature films. The actor passed away on Saturday, December 12 at the age of 85. The death was confirmed by Margot Avery, his daughter.
Sebouth Der Abrahamian was born on July 14, 1924 in Philadelphia. He started working in a company of young actors before enlisting in the army during World War II, when he served as a flight instructor. In 1953 he married fellow actress Margot Stevenson, who has survived him.
He started out on the small screen, and made his film debut with a small role in The Harder I Will Fall , Humphrey Bogart ‘s latest film . From that moment he did not stop playing small roles in well-known movies, such as The Magnificent Seven , where he was a street vendor. He shared the screen with Paul Newman in One Man and Hud, The Wildest Among a Thousand .
There was no mythical television series in which he did not intervene, in small roles: Bonanza , The Untouchables , In the limits of reality , The Monster family , Whip and The fugitive (1963) .
Together with John Cassavetes , he played the Martin Ritt film Where the City Ends , Las Vegas, 1970 by Giuliano Montaldo and Heroes , by Jeremy Kagan . In addition, Cassavetes directed him in many of his films: Faces , Gloria , Thus Speaks in Love , The Killing of a Chinese Bookie , and Too Late Blues .
Avery was active even at an advanced age. He played a dealer in Donnie Brasco and a judge in Blueberry .