Jules Dassin

Julius "Jules Dassin (December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008), ce qui à l'American film director, producer, writer and actor. He was a subject of the Hollywood liste noire dans the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France, where he revived his career. Dassin quickly became better known for his noir film "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 que Rififi (1955), an early work in the "hold-up film de genre. It inspired later heist film, such as ocean's Eleven (1960). Another piece it inspired ce que Dassin s own heist film de Topkapi, filmed in France and Istanbul, Turkey with Melina Mercouri et Oscar winner Peter Ustinov. Dassin said Darryl F. Zanuck, en 1948, called him into his office to inform him he would be liste noire, but he still had enough time to make a movie for Fox. Dassin qui liste noire à Hollywood during the production of Night and the City (1950). He was not allowed on the studio property to edit or superviser the musical score for the film. He also had trouble finding work abroad, as U. S. distribution companies liste noire the U. S. distribution of any European film associated with artists liste noire à Hollywood. En 1952, after Dassin had been out of work for two years, actrice Bette Davis hired him to direct dans 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 à 1954 (a French production). Most of Dassin s film 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 "Car-SAN", dans Europe, as opposed to "QUE dans" in the United States leads to a common misconception that he was a European director.