Jules Dassin (born Julius Dassin on December 18, 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut) is an American film director. He is most known for his films Night and the City (1950) and Du Rififi Chez les Hommes (American title: Rififi) (1955), and as a survivor of the Hollywood blacklist of that time. December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Middletown is a city located in Middlesex County, Connecticut, along the Connecticut River, in the south-central part of the state, 16 miles (26 km) south of Hartford. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Night and the City is a 1950 film based on the novel by Gerald Kersh, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney. ... Warning: Du rififi chez les hommes is a French 1955 black-and-white big caper movie (called Rififi in the films US release). ... Du Rififi chez les hommes is a French 1955 black-and-white big caper movie (called Rififi in the films US release. ... Playwright Arthur Miller testifies before HUAC The Hollywood blacklist was a group of primarily Jewish film actors, directors, and screenwriters in the late 1940s and early 1950s, including at least ten who were members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), who were investigated by the House Committee on Un-American...

One of eight children of a Russian-Jewish barber, Dassin started as a Yiddish actor with the ARTEF company in New York, but became well-known for his film noir films Brute Force, The Naked City and Thieves' Highway in the 1940s. Just as Dassin was about to be brought before the House Unamerican Activities Committee, producer Darryl F. Zanuck assigned him the screenplay for Night and the City, and sent him to London, to begin production on the film. This page is a list of Jews. ... A barber (from the Latin barba, beard) is someone whose occupation is to cut any type of hair, give shaves and cut beards. ... This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ... Brute Force is a 1947 brooding, brutal drama movie considered film noir. ... The Naked City is a 1948 black-and-white film noir directed by Jules Dassin. ... Thieves Highway film poster Thieves Highway is a 1949 film directed by Jules Dassin. ... The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was an investigating committee of the United States House of Representatives. ... Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902–December 22, 1979) was a producer, writer, actor and director who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as its longest survivor. ... Night and the City is a 1950 film based on the novel by Gerald Kersh, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney. ... For other uses, see London (disambiguation) and Defining London (below). ...

In an interview accompanying The Criterion Collection DVD release, Dassin recalls that Zanuck warned him that this would be his final film for Hollywood, advising him to shoot the most expensive scenes first, so that the studio would be "on the hook," and allow him to complete it. The Criterion Collection is a line of authoritative consumer versions of classic and important contemporary films on laserdisc and, later, DVD. It was established as a joint venture between Janus Films and The Voyager Company in the mid-1980s. ...

After the film's release, European producers were told that their films would not be allowed to be released in the United States if Dassin were involved in their production. After the release of Night and the City, it would be five years before another film directed by Dassin, now working in France, would be released. In 1955, the film noir classic Du rififi chez les hommes opened to rave reviews. Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one. ... Night and the City is a 1950 film based on the novel by Gerald Kersh, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney. ... Warning: Du rififi chez les hommes is a French 1955 black-and-white big caper movie (called Rififi in the films US release). ...

Dassin met and became romantically involved with Greek actress Melina Mercouri, whom he married. The couple made Pote tin Kyriaki (Never on Sunday) in 1960. The film earned Dassin a nomination for the Academy Award for Directing and the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay. Dassin and Mercouri went on to make Topkapi and Phaedra. Melina Mercouri on Never on Sunday Melina Mercouri (Μελίνα Μερκούρη; Athens, Greece, October 18, 1920 – New York, New York, March 6, 1994) was a Greek actress and political activist. ... Never on Sunday (also known as Pote Tin Kyriaki (Ποτέ Την Κυριακή)) is a 1960 black-and-white film which tells the story of Ilya, a prostitute who lives in the port of Piraeus in Greece, and Homer, an American tourist — a classical scholar enamored with all things Greek. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. ... The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ... Ustinov, Schell, Mercouri Topkapi is a 1964 heist film by directed by American Jules Dassin. ... Phaedra was a movie directed by Jules Dassin in 1962, as a vehicle for his wife Melina Mercouri, after her world-wide smash hit Never on Sunday. Never on Sunday was nominated for the best film in the 1960s OSCARSs. ...

His son, Joe Dassin, was a popular French singer until his untimely death in 1980. Jules Dassin's daughter is the actress Julie Dassin. Joe Dassin Joseph Ira Dassin (November 5, 1938 - August 20, 1980) was a French-speaking American musician. ...

External links

• Jules Dassin at The Internet Movie Database