Jules Dassin
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OverviewAI-generated
Jules Dassin was a French male artist active from 1934 to 1980. His musical output is categorized under genres including american, chanson, chanson française, french, and french pop. He is associated with the country of France.
Among his recorded works is *Night and the city*. Open Library lists one work for him, while Crossref records five. The artist has 58 listeners and a total playcount of 141 on Last.fm.
Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1911
- Died
- 2008
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Night and the city
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1938-11-05
- Active to
- 1980-08-20
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 58
- Total plays
- 141
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jules+Dassin">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People
· 2010 · cited 9,388x
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,334x
- The Dorsoventral Regulatory Gene Cassette spätzle/Toll/cactus Controls the Potent Antifungal Response in Drosophila Adults
· 1996 · cited 3,054x
- The Host Defense of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
· 2007 · cited 3,030x
- Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes
· 2020 · cited 2,826x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Julius Dassin , ( 1911-12-18 ) December 18, 1911, Middletown, Connecticut , U.S.
- Died
- March 31, 2008 (2008-03-31) (aged 96), Athens , Greece
- Resting place
- First Cemetery of Athens
- Other name
- Perlo Vita
- Occupations
- Director producer writer actor
- Spouses
- Beatrice Launer ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1933 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1962 ) Melina Mercouri ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1966 ; died 1994 )
- Children
- 3, including Joe Dassin
- Awards
- See below
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Julius "Jules" Dassin (/ˈdæsɪn, dæˈsɪn/ DASS-in, dass-IN; December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008) was an American film and theatre director, producer, writer and actor. A subject of the Hollywood blacklist, he subsequently moved to France, and later Greece, where he continued his career. He was best-known for his noir and crime films, though he also worked in other genres. He won the Best Director Award at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival for his pioneering heist film Rififi, and received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Never on Sunday (1960).
He adapted Never on Sunday into the stage musical Illya Darling, earning Tony nominations for Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical. Dassin's other notable films included Brute Force (1947), The Naked City (1948), Thieves' Highway (1949), Night and the City (1950), Topkapi (1964), and Uptight (1968).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jules Dassin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.