Jules Dassin

Director, Actor, Productor, Escritor

18 de diciembre de 1911 — 31 de marzo de 2008 (96 años)
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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 Ustinov.

Dassin said Darryl F. Zanuck in 1948 called him into his office to inform him he would be blacklisted, but he still had enough time to make a movie for Fox. Dassin was blacklisted in Hollywood during the production of Night and the City (1950). He was not allowed on the studio property to edit or oversee the musical score for the film. He also had trouble finding work abroad, as U.S. distribution companies blacklisted the U.S. distribution of any European film associated with artists blacklisted in Hollywood. In 1952, after Dassin had been out of work for two years, actress Bette Davis hired him to direct her in 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 in 1954 (a French production). Most of Dassin's films 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 "Da-SAN" in Europe, as opposed to "DASS-in" in the United States leads to a common misconception that he was a European director.

Películas y series en Plex

  • La ciudad desnuda
    La ciudad desnuda1948
  • Fuerza bruta
    Fuerza bruta1947
  • Círculo de dos
    Círculo de dos1981

Conocido por

  • Rififi
    Rififi1955
  • La ciudad desnuda
    La ciudad desnuda1948
  • Noche en la ciudad
    Noche en la ciudad1950
  • Fuerza bruta
    Fuerza bruta1947
  • Topkapi
    Topkapi1964
  • Nunca en domingo
    Nunca en domingo1960
  • Mercado de ladrones
    Mercado de ladrones1949
  • El fantasma de Canterville
    El fantasma de Canterville1944
  • Fedra
    Fedra1962
  • Reunión en Francia
    Reunión en Francia1942
  • El que debe morir
    El que debe morir1957
  • Uptight
    Uptight1968
  • La ley
    La ley1959
  • Nazi Agent
    Nazi Agent1942
  • Círculo de dos
    Círculo de dos1981
  • Two Smart People
    Two Smart People1946
  • The Affairs of Martha
    The Affairs of Martha1942
  • Una Carta Para Eva
    Una Carta Para Eva1946
  • Gritos de pasión
    Gritos de pasión1978
  • Young Ideas
    Young Ideas1943

Filmography