Dog Day Afternoon stars Seneca the Younger.
Dog Day Afternoon . The film stars Al Pacino , John Cazale , Charles Durning , Chris Sarandon , Penelope Allen , James Broderick , Lance Henriksen and Carol Kane . Seneca the Younger AD65 ) , fully Lucius Annaeus Seneca and also known simply as Seneca ( [ ˈsɛnɪkə ] ) , was a Roman Stoic philosopher , statesman , dramatist , and -- in one work -- humorist of the Silver Age of Latin literature .