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Jules Dassin

Jules Dassin

Director

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.

Born: December 18, 1911 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA

Died: March 31, 2008 (Age 96)

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Jules Dassin  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
8.2
ActorCesar le Milanais1955
Movie
7.5
ActorHomer Thrace1960
Movie
6.6
ActorChristos (uncredited)1962
Movie
6.2
ActorIvan Mosjukine (as Perlo Vita)1970
Movie
6.8
ActorSelf2006
Movie
7
Actor2005
Movie
7.4
ActorNarrator2005
Movie
7.6
ActorMan in Freight Elevator (uncredited)1949
TV Show
7.6
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1972
TV Show
6.7
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1982-2013
TV Show
6.1
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1975-1980
TV Show
8.1
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1957-1975
TV Show
7.4
ActorSelf
2 Episodes
1956-1966
TV Show
8.3
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1962-1992
Movie
6.2
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Producer1966
Movie
6.6
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Producer1978
Movie
6.8
DirectingDirector1946
Movie
7.7
DirectingDirector1947
Movie
5.5
DirectingDirector1981
Movie
7.3
DirectingDirector, Writer1957
Movie
6.6
DirectingDirector1942
Movie
7.5
DirectingDirector, Writer, Producer1960
Movie
7.8
DirectingDirector1950
Movie
6.6
DirectingDirector, Writer, Producer1962
Movie
6.2
DirectingDirector, Producer, Writer1970
Movie
6.1
DirectingDirector1942
Movie
8.2
DirectingDirector, Adaptation1955
Movie
6.3
DirectingDirector1942
Movie
7
DirectingDirector1944
Movie
6.5
DirectingDirector, Screenplay1959
Movie
7.4
DirectingDirector1948
Movie
6.7
DirectingDirector, Writer1974
Movie
7.6
DirectingDirector1949
Movie
6.7
DirectingDirector, Producer1964
Movie
6.2
DirectingDirector1946
Movie
7.1
DirectingDirector, Producer, Writer1968
Movie
5.4
DirectingDirector1943
Movie
5.7
DirectingDirector1968
Short Film
6.5
DirectingDirector1941
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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