Jules Dassin

Directing · Born 1911-12-18 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA

Biography

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' Highway (1949), which helped him to become "one of the leading American filmmakers of the postwar era." Dassin's most influential film was Rififi (1955), an early work in the "heist film" genre. It inspired later heist films, such as Ocean's Eleven (1960). Another piece it inspired was Dassin's own heist film Topkapi, filmed in France and Istanbul, Turkey with Melina Mercouri and Oscar winner Peter…

Filmography

• Rififi as Cesar le Milanais
• Never on Sunday as Homer Thrace
• Phaedra as Christos (uncredited)
• Thieves' Highway as Man in Freight Elevator (uncredited)
• Filmmakers in Action as Self
• The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides as Narrator (voice)
• Promise at Dawn as Ivan Mosjukine
• Topkapi as Turkish Cop (uncredited)