Jules Dassin

Julius "Jules" Dassin (18 de Diciembre de 1911 – March 31, 2008), lo que es en American película, director, productor, escritor and actor. He was a subject of the Hollywood en la lista negra en the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France, where he revivió his career. Dassin quickly became better known for his noir película Brute Force (1947), The Naked City (1948), and Thieves' Highway (1949), which ayudado him to become "one of the leading American filmmakers of the postwar era." Dassin's most influential película lo Rififi (1955), en early work in the heist film de género. It inspired later heist film, such as Ocean's Eleven (1960). Another piece ti inspired lo Dassin's own heist película de Topkapi, filmed in France and Istanbul, Turkey with Melina Mercouri and Oscar winner Peter Ustinov. Dassin dijo Darryl F. Zanuck en 1948 called him into his office to inform him he would be en la lista negra, but he still had enough time to make a movie for Fox. Dassin lo que en la lista negra de 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 encontrar trabajo en el extranjero, as U. S. distribución de empresas en la lista negra the U. S. distribution of any European film associated with artistas en la lista negra de Hollywood. En 1952, después de Dassin had been out of work for two years, actriz Bette Davis hired him to direct in the Broadway revista Two's Company. The show cerrado early, however, and Dassin, left for Europe. Dassin did not work as a película, director again until Rififi en 1954 (a French production). Most of Dassin's película de the decades following the blacklist are European productions. His prolífico later career in Europe and the afiliación with Greece through his second wife, combined with a common pronunciation of his surname as "Da-SAN" en europa, as opposed to "QUE en" in the United States leads to a common misconception that he was a European director.