Jules Dassin

Jules Dassin

1911-12-18 Middletown, Connecticut, USA 37 Credits

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." ...

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Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin

Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin

2023

as Himself

Acting

In 1968, filmmaker Jules Dassin collaborated with Ruby Dee and civil rights activist Julian Mayfield on Uptight, a "politically radical" film noir abo...

Urok Francuzskogo

2008

as Himself

Acting

A documentary about a relationships between USSR and France.

Filmmakers in Action

Filmmakers in Action

2006

as Self

6.8
Acting

What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in...

Buzz

2005

Acting

A journey to places, where the overlooked Hollywood screenwriter Albert Isaac "Buzz" Bezzerides lived and worked, revealing the operation of Hollywood...

The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides

The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides

2005

as Narrator (voice)

3.0
Acting

Filled with humor and defining experiences in both his own life and in the lives of some of his closest friends, William Faulkner and Robert Aldrich, ...

Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos

Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos

1993

as Himself

Acting

Theo Angelopoulos recalls the defining moment in 1964 that led to him to live his entire life in Greece, and explores the concept of borders in his wo...

Circle of Two

Circle of Two

1981

Director

4.9
Directing

A 60-year-old artist shares a secret, platonic romance with a 16-year-old girl.

A Dream of Passion

A Dream of Passion

1978

Producer, Director, Screenplay

5.5
Producing Directing Writing

Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clue...

The Rehearsal

The Rehearsal

1974

Director, Writer

4.8
Directing Writing

An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Ath...

Promise at Dawn

Promise at Dawn

1970

as Ivan Mosjukine

5.3
Acting

A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never...

Promise at Dawn

Promise at Dawn

1970

Director, Producer, Writer

5.3
Directing Producing Writing

A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never...

Uptight

Uptight

1968

Director, Writer, Producer

6.5
Directing Writing Producing

Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.

Survival 1967

1968

Director

3.0
Directing

This film documentary uses the 1967 Six-Day War and its immediate aftermath as its basis. The material primarily presents Israeli sources and perspect...

10:30 P.M. Summer

10:30 P.M. Summer

1966

Director, Producer, Screenplay

5.3
Directing Producing Writing

A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.

Topkapi

Topkapi

1964

Producer, Director

6.5
Producing Directing

Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal...

Phaedra

Phaedra

1962

as Christos (uncredited)

5.8
Acting

A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson ...

Phaedra

Phaedra

1962

Director, Writer, Producer

5.8
Directing Writing Producing

A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson ...

Never on Sunday

Never on Sunday

1960

as Homer Thrace

6.8
Acting

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

Never on Sunday

Never on Sunday

1960

Writer, Director, Producer

6.8
Writing Directing Producing

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

The Law

The Law

1959

Director, Screenplay

5.9
Directing Writing

A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.

He Who Must Die

He Who Must Die

1957

Director, Writer

6.1
Directing Writing

Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that...

Rififi

Rififi

1955

as Cesar le Milanais

7.8
Acting

Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend ...

Rififi

Rififi

1955

Director, Adaptation

7.8
Directing

Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend ...

Night and the City

Night and the City

1950

Director

7.5
Directing

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed...

Thieves' Highway

Thieves' Highway

1949

as Man in Freight Elevator (uncredited)

7.3
Acting

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his fa...

Thieves' Highway

Thieves' Highway

1949

Director

7.3
Directing

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his fa...

The Naked City

The Naked City

1948

Director

7.2
Directing

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

Brute Force

Brute Force

1947

Director

7.3
Directing

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of e...

Two Smart People

Two Smart People

1946

Director

6.4
Directing

Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge.

A Letter for Evie

A Letter for Evie

1946

Director

6.7
Directing

Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-hal...

The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost

1944

Director

6.7
Directing

The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.

Young Ideas

Young Ideas

1943

Director

4.6
Directing

A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.

Reunion in France

Reunion in France

1942

Director

6.4
Directing

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get hi...

The Affairs of Martha

The Affairs of Martha

1942

Director

6.2
Directing

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

Nazi Agent

Nazi Agent

1942

Director

6.6
Directing

Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and...

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart

1941

Director

6.5
Directing

In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.

Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film

N/A

Acting

Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film