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Encyclopedia > Joseph Losey

Joseph Losey (January 14, 1909 - June 22, 1984) was an American theater and film director. January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...


He was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood. La Crosse is a city in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. ... Bertolt Brecht (February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956) was an influential German dramatist, stage director, and poet of the 20th century. ... ...


During the McCarthy Era, he was investigated for his supposed ties with the Communist Party and was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses. His career in shambles, he moved to London, where he continued working as a director. Named for the US Senator Joseph McCarthy, a Republican of Wisconsin, McCarthyism was a period of intense anti-communism in the United States primarily from 1950 to 1954, when the U.S. government was actively engaged in countering American Communist Party subversion, its leadership, and others suspected of being Communists... In modern usage, a Communist party is a political party which promotes communism, a sociopolitical philosophy based on the particular interpretation of Marxism put forth by Vladimir Lenin. ... Playwright Arthur Miller testifies before HUAC The Hollywood blacklist was a group of mainly film actors, directors, and screenwriters in the late 1940s and early 1950s who were unable to work openly after having been targeted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities for alleged communist activities. ... ... A movie studio is a company which develops, equips and maintains a controlled environment for the making of a film. ... The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...


His film The Go-Between won the Golden Palm Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. Even in the UK, however, he experienced problems: his first British film, The Sleeping Tiger,a 1954 film noir crime thriller, did not bear his name originally in the credits as director, as the stars of the film, Alexis Smith and Alexander Knox, feared being blacklisted in Hollywood due to working on a film he directed. He was originally slated to direct the 1956 Hammer Films production X the Unknown, after a few days work on the project star Dean Jagger refused to work with a supposed Communist sympathiser and Losey was moved off the project. The Go-Between is a novel by L.P. Hartley (1895 – 1972), published in London in 1953. ... The Palme dOr (Golden Palm) is the name of the highest prize given to a film at the Cannes Film Festival. ... The Palais des Festivals in which the festival takes place. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ... Alexis Smith Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993) was an actress. ... Alexander Knox (January 16, 1907 _ April 25, 1995) was a Canadian actor. ... ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hammer horror refers to horror films produced in the late 1950s through the 1970s by the British film studio Hammer Films. ... X the Unknown is a British science-fiction / horror film made by the famous Hammer Films company and released in 1956. ... Dean Jagger (November 17, 1903 in film – February 5, 1991) was an American film actor. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ...


Losey died in London in 1984.


External Links

  • Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database

Filmography as director includes

Film Year
Pete Roleum and His Cousins 1939
Youth Gets a Break 1941
A Child Went Forth 1941
A Gun in His Hand 1945
Leben des Galilei 1947
The Boy with Green Hair 1948
The Lawless 1950
The Prowler 1951
M 1951
The Big Night 1951
Imbarco a mezzanotte 1951
The Sleeping Tiger 1954
A Man on the Beach 1955
The Intimate Stranger 1956
Time Without Pity 1957
The Gypsy and the Gentleman 1958
Blind Date 1958
First on the Road 1959
The Criminal 1960
Eva 1962
The Damned 1963
The Servant 1963
King & Country 1964
Modesty Blaise 1966
Accident 1967
Secret Ceremony 1968
Figures in a Landscape 1970
The Go-Between 1970
The Assassination of Trotsky 1972
A Doll's House 1973
The Romantic Englishwoman 1975
Galileo 1975
Monsieur Klein 1976
Les Routes du sud 1978
Don Giovanni 1979
La Truite 1982
Steaming 1985

  Results from FactBites:
 
Joseph Losey (4635 words)
Losey moved to New York early on and was heavily involved in the radical theater of the 1930s, directing many agit-prop plays.
Losey was forced to leave America after refusing to inform on his friends to the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a sign of his ultimate integrity.
Losey seems to be trying to mask his indifference to the subject by retreating into a numb loftiness.
Joseph Losey - Films as Director: (1744 words)
Losey's domain is interior action and his depiction of the physical world centers on those events which are an outgrowth or reflection of his characters' inner lives.
In Losey's later films, the scope of the "intruder" theme is often narrowed to explore the effect of a newcomer on the relationship of a husband and wife.
Losey's consistent use of film as a means of social criticism has its roots in his theatrical work of the 1930s and his association with Bertolt Brecht.
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