Jules Dassin

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Director

Birth Name: Julius Dassin

Birth Date: December 18, 1911

Death Date: March 31, 2008

Birth Place: Middletown, Connecticut

Spouses: Melina Mercouri

Gained experience in theater and radio in New York before going to work in Hollywood in 1940, first with RKO (as assistant director) and then with MGM. Dassin hit his stride in the late 1940s with such dynamic (and still well-regarded) film noir melodramas as "Brute Force" (1947) and "The Naked City" (1948).

After being blacklisted he moved to Europe, where he scored his greatest international successes with the French-produced "Rififi" (1955) and the then-scandalous "Never on Sunday" (1959), starring his second wife Melina Mercouri. For the most part, his later films--like "Up Tight" (1968), an ill-conceived black remake of John Ford's 1935 classic "The Informer"--have been disappointing and inconclusive.

Credits

Circle of Two

Director
Movie
1980

A Dream of Passion

Director
Movie
1978

A Dream of Passion

Producer
Movie
1978

A Dream of Passion

Writer
Movie
1978

The Rehearsal

Actor
Movie
1974

The Rehearsal

Director
Movie
1974

The Rehearsal

Screenwriter
Movie
1974

Promise at Dawn

Director
Movie
1971

Promise at Dawn

Producer
Movie
1971

Uptight

Director
Movie
1968

Uptight

Producer
Movie
1968

10:30 P.M. Summer

Director
Movie
1966

10:30 P.M. Summer

Producer
Movie
1966

10:30 P.M. Summer

Writer
Movie
1966

TopkapiStream

Director
Movie
1964
90%

TopkapiStream

Producer
Movie
1964
90%

Phaedra

Director
Movie
1962

Phaedra

Producer
Movie
1962

Jamais le dimanche

Actor
Homer
Movie
1960

Jamais le dimanche

Director
Movie
1960

Jamais le dimanche

Screenwriter
Movie
1960

Never on SundayStream

Actor
Homer Thrace
Movie
1960
67%

Never on SundayStream

Director
Movie
1960
67%

Where the Hot Wind Blows

Director
Movie
1959

La Loi

Director
Movie
1958

He Who Must Die

Director
Movie
1957

He Who Must Die

Writer
Movie
1957

Rififi

Actor
Cesar le Milanais
Movie
1955
93%

Rififi

Director
Movie
1955
93%

Rififi

Writer (Adaptation)
Movie
1955
93%

Night and the City

Director
Movie
1950
82%

Thieves' Highway

Director
Movie
1949

The Naked CityStream

Director
Movie
1948
86%

Brute Force

Director
Movie
1947

Two Smart People

Director
Movie
1946

A Letter for Evie

Director
Movie
1945

The Canterville GhostStream

Director
Movie
1944
86%

Young Ideas

Director
Movie
1943

The Affairs of Martha

Director
Movie
1943

Nazi Agent

Director
Movie
1942

Reunion in FranceStream

Director
Movie
1942

The Tell-Tale Heart

Director
Movie
1941