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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.
Jules Dassin Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jules Dassin |
| Also Know | Julius Dassin, Perlo Vita, 줄스 ë‹¤ì‹ , 쥴스 ë‹¤ì‹ |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Middletown, Connecticut, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1911-12-18 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 96 |
| Deathday | 2008-03-31 |
Jules Dassin Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Urok Francuzskogo | Himself | 2008-06-06 | A documentary about a relationships between USSR and France…. |
| Never on Sunday | Homer Thrace | 1960-05-24 | An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated…. |
| Buzz | 2005-04-05 | A journey to places, where the overseen Hollywood screenwriter Albert Isaac “Buzz” Bezzerides lived and worked, revealing the operation of Hollywood’s… | |
| The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides | Narrator | 2005-01-01 | Filled with humor and defining experiences in both his own life and in the lives of some of his closest friends, William Faulkner and Robert Aldrich, … |
| Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos | Himself | 1993-05-15 | Theo Angelopoulos recalls the defining moment in 1964 that led to him to live his entire life in Greece, and explores the concept of borders in his wo… |
| Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film | Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film… | ||
| Rififi | Cesar le Milanais | 1955-04-13 | Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend … |
| Promise at Dawn | Ivan Mosjukine (as Perlo Vita) | 1970-11-25 | Nina is a former silent-film star from Russia who abandons her career to care for her son. She is a single mother — the boy’s father is a famous acto… |
| Phaedra | Christos (uncredited) | 1962-01-01 | A retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. In modern Greece, Alexis’s father, an extremely wealthy shipping magnate, marries the younger, fiery Phaedra… |
| Filmmakers in Action | Self | 2006-09-15 | What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors’ copyright? What is their legal status in… |
Jules Dassin Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Rififi | Director | 1955-04-13 | Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend … |
| 10:30 P.M. Summer | Director | 1966-10-24 | A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife…. |
| Thieves’ Highway | Director | 1949-09-20 | Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his fa… |
| The Naked City | Director | 1948-03-04 | The Naked City portrays the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets a… |
| Topkapi | Director | 1964-09-02 | Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal… |
| Brute Force | Director | 1947-07-10 | Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins’ dreams of e… |
| Reunion in France | Director | 1942-12-25 | Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get hi… |
| Never on Sunday | Director | 1960-05-24 | An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated…. |
| A Dream of Passion | Director | 1978-05-21 | Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clue… |
| Nazi Agent | Director | 1942-03-01 | Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and… |
| Phaedra | Director | 1962-01-01 | A retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. In modern Greece, Alexis’s father, an extremely wealthy shipping magnate, marries the younger, fiery Phaedra… |
| Night and the City | Director | 1950-06-15 | Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry’s schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed… |
| The Law | Director | 1959-01-25 | A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game…. |
| The Canterville Ghost | Director | 1944-07-20 | The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress…. |
| Two Smart People | Director | 1946-06-04 | Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge…. |
| Circle of Two | Director | 1981-05-07 | A 60-year-old artist shares a secret, platonic romance with a 16-year-old girl…. |
| Uptight | Director | 1968-12-28 | Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own…. |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | Director | 1941-10-25 | In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim’s beating heart torments the murderer’s mind…. |
| He Who Must Die | Director | 1957-05-03 | Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that… |
| Young Ideas | Director | 1943-08-02 | A widow’s grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor…. |
| The Affairs of Martha | Director | 1942-06-21 | Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé…. |
| A Letter for Evie | Director | 1946-01-28 | Evie’s co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée’s inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-ha… |
| Promise at Dawn | Director | 1970-11-25 | Nina is a former silent-film star from Russia who abandons her career to care for her son. She is a single mother — the boy’s father is a famous acto… |
| The Rehearsal | Director | 1974-01-01 | An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students’ uprising in the A… |
| Survival 1967 | Director | 1968-06-11 | This film documentary uses the 1967 Six-Day War and its immediate aftermath as its basis. The material primarily presents Israeli sources and perspect… |
Jules Dassin Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| 10:30 P.M. Summer | Producer | 1966-10-24 | A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife…. |
| Topkapi | Producer | 1964-09-02 | Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal… |
| Promise at Dawn | Producer | 1970-11-25 | Nina is a former silent-film star from Russia who abandons her career to care for her son. She is a single mother — the boy’s father is a famous acto… |
| Phaedra | Producer | 1962-01-01 | A retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. In modern Greece, Alexis’s father, an extremely wealthy shipping magnate, marries the younger, fiery Phaedra… |
| Uptight | Producer | 1968-12-28 | Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own…. |
| A Dream of Passion | Producer | 1978-05-21 | Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clue… |
| Never on Sunday | Producer | 1960-05-24 | An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Never on Sunday | Writer | 1960-05-24 | An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated…. |
| A Dream of Passion | Screenplay | 1978-05-21 | Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clue… |
| The Law | Writer | 1959-01-25 | A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game…. |
| Uptight | Writer | 1968-12-28 | Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own…. |
| Rififi | Adaptation | 1955-04-13 | Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend … |
| The Rehearsal | Writer | 1974-01-01 | An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students’ uprising in the A… |
| Phaedra | Writer | 1962-01-01 | A retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. In modern Greece, Alexis’s father, an extremely wealthy shipping magnate, marries the younger, fiery Phaedra… |
| Promise at Dawn | Writer | 1970-11-25 | Nina is a former silent-film star from Russia who abandons her career to care for her son. She is a single mother — the boy’s father is a famous acto… |
| 10:30 P.M. Summer | Screenplay | 1966-10-24 | A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife…. |
| He Who Must Die | Writer | 1957-05-03 | Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that… |
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