Jules Dassin

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1911-12-18 (97 years old)

Deathday

2008-03-31

Place of Birth

Middletown, Connecticut, USA

Jules Dassin

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 (196...

Acting

1955

Rififi

as Cesar le Milanais

1960

Never on Sunday

as Homer Thrace

1962

Phaedra

as Christos (uncredited)

2005

2008

1949

Thieves' Highway

as Man in Freight Elevator (uncredited)

2005

1970

Promise at Dawn

as Ivan Mosjukine

Production

1955

Rififi

as Director

1966

1966

1949

Thieves' Highway

as Director

1948

The Naked City

as Director

1964

Topkapi

as Director

1964

Topkapi

as Producer

1978

1942

1947

Brute Force

as Director

1960

Never on Sunday

as Director

1960

1978

1978

A Dream of Passion

as Screenplay

1942

Nazi Agent

as Director

1962

Phaedra

as Director

1950

1959

The Law

as Director

1944

1946

Two Smart People

as Director

1981

Circle of Two

as Director

1968

Uptight

as Director

1968

Uptight

as Writer

1941

1957

He Who Must Die

as Director

1943

Young Ideas

as Director

1957

1946

1955

Rififi

as Adaptation

1942

1970

Promise at Dawn

as Director

1970

Promise at Dawn

as Producer

1974

The Rehearsal

as Director

1974

The Rehearsal

as Writer

1962

Phaedra

as Writer

1960

Never on Sunday

as Producer

1959

The Law

as Screenplay

1970

1962

Phaedra

as Producer

1968

Survival 1967

as Director

1968

Uptight

as Producer

1966

10:30 P.M. Summer

as Screenplay

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