Jules Dassin

Jules Dassin

Directing 1911-12-18 Middletown, Connecticut, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Julius "Jules" Dassin (December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008) was an American film director, producer, writer and actor. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France, where he revived his career. Dassin quickly became better known for his noir films Brute Force (1947), The Naked City (1948), and Thieves' Highway (1949), which helped him to become "one of the leading American filmmakers of the postwar era." Dassin's most influential film was Rififi (1955), an early work in the "heist film" genre. It inspired later heist films, such as Ocean's Eleven (1960). Another piece it inspired was Dassin's own heist film Topkapi, filmed in France and Istanbul, Turkey with Melina Mercouri and Oscar winner Peter Ustinov. Dassin said Darryl F. Zanuck in 1948 called him into his office to inform him he would be blacklisted, but he still had enough time to make a movie for Fox. Dassin was blacklisted in Hollywood during the production of Night and the City (1950). He was not allowed on the studio property to edit or oversee the musical score for the film. He also had trouble finding work abroad, as U.S. distribution companies blacklisted the U.S. distribution of any European film associated with artists blacklisted in Hollywood. In 1952, after Dassin had been out of work for two years, actress Bette Davis hired him to direct her in the Broadway revue Two's Company. The show closed early, however, and Dassin left for Europe. Dassin did not work as a film director again until Rififi in 1954 (a French production). Most of Dassin's films in the decades following the blacklist are European productions. His prolific later career in Europe and the affiliation with Greece through his second wife, combined with a common pronunciation of his surname as "Da-SAN" in Europe, as opposed to "DASS-in" in the United States leads to a common misconception that he was a European director.

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1978 Screenplay
1974 Director
1974 Writer
1972 Self
1970 Ivan Mosjukine
1970 Director
1970 Producer
1970 Writer
1968 Director
1968 Writer
1968 Director
1968 Producer
1966 Director
1966 Producer
1966 Screenplay
1964 Turkish Cop (uncredited)
1964 Producer
1964 Director
1962 Christos (uncredited)
1962 Director
1962 Writer
1962 Producer
1960 Homer Thrace
1960 Writer
1960 Director
1960 Producer
1960 Writer
1959 Self
1959 Director
1959 Screenplay
1957 Director
1957 Writer
1956 Self
1955 Cesar le Milanais
1955 Director
1955 Adaptation
1950 Director
1949 Man in Freight Elevator (uncredited)
1949 Director
1948 Director
1947 Director
1946 Director
1946 Director
1944 Director
1943 Director
1942 Director
1942 Director
1942 Director
1941 Director