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      Jules Dassin

      Jules Dassin

      Highest Rated: 100% Thieves' Highway (1949)

      Lowest Rated: 20% Phaedra (1962)

      Birthday: Dec 18, 1911

      Birthplace: Middletown, Connecticut, USA

      Gained experience in theater and radio in New York before going to work in Hollywood in 1940, first with RKO (as assistant director) and then with MGM. Dassin hit his stride in the late 1940s with such dynamic (and still well-regarded) film noir melodramas as "Brute Force" (1947) and "The Naked City" (1948). After being blacklisted he moved to Europe, where he scored his greatest international successes with the French-produced "Rififi" (1955) and the then-scandalous "Never on Sunday" (1959), starring his second wife Melina Mercouri. For the most part, his later films--like "Up Tight" (1968), an ill-conceived black remake of John Ford's 1935 classic "The Informer"--have been disappointing and inconclusive.

      Highest rated movies

      Rififi
      Never on Sunday

      Photos

      NIGHT AND THE CITY, director Jules Dassin, Richard Widmark, 1950. TM and Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. BRUTE FORCE, Burt Lancaster with director Jules Dassin on the set, 1947 BRUTE FORCE, Jules Dassin, Sam Levine (seated) and Hume Cronyn (right) rehearsing the scene, 1947 NEVER ON SUNDAY, (aka POTE TIN KYRIAKI), Jules Dassin, 1960 THE NAKED CITY, Jules Dassin, directing on New York's Lower East Side, 1948 THE NAKED CITY, producer, Mark Hellinger, director, Jules Dassin, on location, New York City, 1948 UP TIGHT!, producer-director Jules Dassin on set, 1968 NEVER ON SUNDAY, Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, 1960 NEVER ON SUNDAY, (aka POTE TIN KYRIAKI), Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, 1960 NEVER ON SUNDAY, Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, 1960 NEVER ON SUNDAY, Jules Dassin, 1960 NEVER ON SUNDAY, Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, 1960 RIFIFI, Robert Manuel, Jean Servais, Perlo Vita (aka Jules Dassin), Carl Mohner, 1956 RIFIFI, Janine Darcey, Perlo Vita (aka Jules Dassin), 1956 RIFIFI, Robert Manuel, Perlo Vita (aka Jules Dassin), 1955 [US: 1956]
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      No Score Yet 35% Circle of Two Director - 1980
      No Score Yet 80% A Dream of Passion Director,
      Producer,
      Writer       		- 1978
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rehearsal Unknown (Character),
      Director,
      Screenwriter       		- 1974
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Promise at Dawn Director,
      Producer       		- 1971
      80% 80% Uptight Director,
      Producer       		- 1968
      No Score Yet 32% 10:30 P.M. Summer Director,
      Producer,
      Writer       		- 1966
      95% 67% Topkapi Director,
      Producer       		- 1964
      20% 39% Phaedra Director - 1962
      67% 82% Never on Sunday Homer Thrace (Character),
      Director       		- 1960
      60% 63% Where the Hot Wind Blows Director - 1959
      89% 75% Law Director - 1958
      80% 79% He Who Must Die Director,
      Writer       		- 1957
      93% 95% Rififi Cesar le Milanais (Character),
      Director,
      Writer       		$57.2K 1955
      82% 90% Night and the City Director - 1950
      100% 79% Thieves' Highway Director - 1949
      87% 79% The Naked City Director - 1948
      95% 87% Brute Force Director - 1947
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Two Smart People Director - 1946
      No Score Yet 75% A Letter for Evie Director - 1945
      86% 73% The Canterville Ghost Director - 1944
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Young Ideas Director - 1943
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Affairs of Martha Director - 1943
      No Score Yet 49% Reunion in France Director - 1942
      No Score Yet 29% Nazi Agent Director - 1942
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Tell-Tale Heart Director - 1941