L'Orient-Le Jour: DISPARITION - Le cinéaste américain est décédé lundi à Athènes à l’âge de 96 ans Jules Dassin, le maître du film noir, n’est plus
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Jules Dassin
Julius "Jules" Dassin 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…
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entertainment · American film and theatre director, screenwriter, producer, and actor (1911–2008) · film director · screenwriter · film producer · actor · theatre director · director · film actor · also Jules Dassin, Dassin
Born 18 December 1911 · Died 31 March 2008 · Q260969
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s next production, The Naked City (originally announced as Homicide) Dassin planned to push the realism and documentary-style filming technique of the police story flic further by shooting it entirely on location in New York City. The production received full cooperation from New York City
2008· 4 entries
The Washington Post: Jules Dassin, 96; Blacklisted Filmmaker
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Died 2008-03-31.
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The Hollywood Reporter: Director Jules Dassin dies at 96
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2007· 1 entry
The film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States National Film Preservation Board and was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry
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2000· 1 entry
Rialto Pictures restored and released Rififi theatrically
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1994· 1 entry
Died a few months before the opening ceremony of the New Acropolis Museum
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1982· 1 entry
Was a member of the jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival
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1974· 2 entries
And Mercouri made The Rehearsal about the junta
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Returned to Greece and lived out their lives there
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1970· 1 entry
Were accused of having financed an attempt to overthrow the dictatorship, but the charges were quickly dropped
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1956· 1 entry
Allied Artists Pictures Corporation manager of branch operations Roy M
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1955· 2 entries
Awarded Cannes Best Director Award for Rififi (1955).
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(a French production), his most influential film and an early work in the "heist film" genre
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1952· 1 entry
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
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1951· 3 entries
And film director Michael Gordon on September 17, 1951
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Frank Tuttle also gave cooperative testimony to the HUAC
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Film director Edward Dmytryk, one of the "Hollywood Ten" who had been blacklisted in 1947 for refusing to answer questions from the HUAC, had a change of heart and decided to cooperate with the Committee and "name names"
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1948· 4 entries
Returned to Hollywood to meet with executives from three different studios: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 20th Century-Fox Film and Columbia Pictures, each of which had offered him a contract
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When he saw a highly edited version of his film projected on the screen
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And opened on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on March 18, 1948
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And 1949, Dassin's name was connected with at least three Communist-front organizations
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1947· 3 entries
Months before the film was premiered and released to theatres by Universal-International Pictures
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While Dassin was still working on The Naked City, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) chief supervisor and executive producer James Kevin McGuinness testified before the HUAC
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“s next production, The Naked City (originally announced as Homicide) Dassin planned to push the realism and documentary-style filming technique of the police story flic further by shooting it entirely on location in New York City. The production received full cooperation from New York City”
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1945· 1 entry
Dassin pulled out of the project
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1944· 3 entries
Dassin's wife Beatrice gave birth to their third child, daughter Julie
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Peters was admitted into Santa Monica Hospital for abdominal pain and underwent major surgery
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With cinematographer Robert Planck, but was pushed back to early March 1944 due to production delays
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1942· 1 entry
And the press reported that he had been promoted to become an "A movie" director
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1941· 2 entries
The success of the picture led to his hasty promotion as a feature film director and the signing of an exclusive five-year contract in early November 1941
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Shortly after Dassin had joined the studio, when an attempt was made to halt the production of Tennessee Johnson, a biographical picture about the life of former U
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1938· 1 entry
Dassin's wife Beatrice gave birth to their first child, son Joseph
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1937· 2 entries
Appeared in Moyshe Kulbak's play The Outlaw, which had been adapted by Chaver Paver at The Artef Theatre He also appeared in Artef Players' Recruits and 200,000
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Serving as an actor, set designer, set builder, stage director and even ticket salesman
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1936· 1 entry
Dassin joined the Children's Theatre, a division of the Federal Theatre Project during the Great Depression
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1934· 1 entry
Julius spent three years studying dramatic technique in Europe
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1933· 2 entries
When he was 21 years old, Julius married Beatrice Launer, a concert violinist and a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music
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Julius' older brother Louis was arrested in Meriden, Connecticut when he confessed to the theft of $12,000 from the Puritan Bank and Trust Company, where he worked as a teller and treasurer
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1929· 1 entry
Newspaper columnist Mark Hellinger printed a story given to him by Dassin in the New York Daily News; nearly twenty years later, the two would work together in Hollywood
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1926· 1 entry
At the age of fourteen, with the Yiddish Art Theatre in New York City
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1915· 1 entry
When Julius was three years old, the Dassin family moved to Harlem, New York
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1911· 2 entries
To Bertha (née Vogel) and Samuel Dassin, a barber
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Born 1911-12-18.
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