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Jules Dassin
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Middletown, Connecticut, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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'…
Known for
- The Hollywood Blacklist: The Survivors Tell Their Stories — self2026
- Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin — Himself2023
- Urok Francuzskogo — Himself2008
- Filmmakers in Action — Self2006
- Buzz2005
- The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides — Narrator (voice)2005
- Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos — Himself1993
- Champs-Elysées — Self1982
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self1975
- Le Grand Échiquier — Self1972
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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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jules
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Greece
- Place of birth
- Middletown
- Place of death
- Athens
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- Modern Greek
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Genre
- film noir
- Image
- Jules Dassin 1970b .jpg
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- place of burial
- First Cemetery of Athens
- date of birth
- 1911-12-18
- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of death
- 2008-03-31
- Commons category
- Jules Dassin
- birth name
- Julius Dassin
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
- cause of death
- influenza
- name in native language
- Jules Dassin
- start of work period
- 1934-00-00
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Jules Dassin
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- writing language
- English language
- end of work period
- 1980-00-00
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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).
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