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- Birth name: Julius Dassin
- Birth date: December 18, 1911
- Birthplace: Middletown, Connecticut
- Died: March 31, 2008
- Age at death: 96
- Spouse: Melina Mercouri
- Awards: Won "Best Director" Award at Cannes Film Festival, 1 Oscar nomination
- Debut film: The Tell-Tale Heart (1941)
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Career
Despite being a consistently busy director through the early 1940s, Jules Dassin was blacklisted by Hollywood after being identified as a Communist.Allmovie: Jules Dassin OverviewIn the 1950s, he moved to France, where he directed one of his most acclaimed films, Rififi (1955). The film has been credited by critic Roger Ebert as the first modern heist movie.RogerEbert.com: Rififi (September 1, 2002)
Dassin won the "Best Director" award for the film at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, and picked up a "Critics Award" from the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics the following year.
In 1961, Dassin received "Best Director" and "Best Writing" Oscar nominations for his work on Never on Sunday (1960). He died in 2008 at the age of 96.
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Jules Dassin on Amazon
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Naked City - Criterion Collection - $39.95
"There are eight million stories in the Naked City," as the narrator immortally states at the close of this breathtakingly vivid film—and this is one of them. Master noir craftsman...Amazon
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Brute Force (Criterion Collection) - $39.95
As hard-hitting as its title, Brute Force was the first of Jules Dassin’s forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama that takes a critical look at American society as well. Bu...Amazon
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Thieves' Highway - Criterion Collection - $39.95
Thieves’ Highway is set in the world of "long-haul boys" who drive by night to bring their goods to the markets of America’s cities. Ex-G.I. Nick Garcos (Richard Conte) is a...Amazon
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Biography - Dassin, Jules (1911-): An article from: Contemporary Authors - $9.95
This digital document, covering the life and work of Jules Dassin, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the en...Amazon
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Brute Force (1947) [VHS] - $19.95
Jules Dassin's brooding, brutal drama about a prison wound to the breaking point by a sadistic captain of the guards is a classic film noir as well as one of the greatest prison ...Amazon
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two new Warner Archive titles arrived today. One was directed by Jules Dassin, and I've never seen it.
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Got some quiet time. Thinking of giving Jules Dassin some screen time: From 1949 "Thieves' HIghway" with the great Lee J. Cobb.
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@udsnoexisten más bien como la película de Jules Dassin "Never On Sunday"!
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