Joe Dassin

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-11-05 (42 years old)

Deathday

1980-08-20

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Joe Dassin

Biography

Joseph Ira Dassin (5 November 1938 – 20 August 1980) was an American–French singer-songwriter and actor. He was the son of film director Jules Dassin. Dassin was born in New York City to American film director Jules Dassin (1911–2008) and Béatrice Launer (1913–1994), a New York-born violinist, who after graduating from a Hebrew High School in the Bronx studied with the British violinist Harold Berkely at the Juilliard School of Music. His father was of Ukrainian-Jewish and Polish-Jewish extraction, his maternal grandfather was an Austrian-Jewish immigrant, who arrived in New York with his family at age 11. Dassin lived in New York City and ...

Production

1964

Topkapi

as Second Assistant Director

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