Willem Dafoe hallucination. The cameo was suggested by Dafoe, comparing it to the ghost of Hamlet's father visiting his son to ask him to avenge his death. Dafoe was next seen in the comedy-drama "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004), his first of three films with director Wes Anderson. He played the "hilariously doltish" German first mate of a research vessel owned by the eponymous lead character, who is played by Bill Murray. Dafoe then had a small role as a tabloid magazine editor in Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator" (2004), a biographical film about Howard Hughes starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Also in
Steve Zissou (jurist) litigation." Zissou represented Denver Broncos player Travis Henry in the 2007 matter of NFL re-testing of Henry's urine. In 2010, he was an attorney for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa, and made the motion, on the third day of jury deliberations, for declaring a hung jury. Steve Zissou (jurist) Steve Zissou (born 1955) is an American attorney, with a practice in Federal criminal law in the Bayside, Queens district of New York City. He was admitted to legal practice in New York State in 1983. Buena Vista Pictures contacted Zissou in the