Jules Dassin
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1911
- Died
- 2008
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Night and the city
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1938-11-05
- Active to
- 1980-08-20
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 58
- Total plays
- 141
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People
· 2010 · cited 9,259x
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,224x
- The Dorsoventral Regulatory Gene Cassette spätzle/Toll/cactus Controls the Potent Antifungal Response in Drosophila Adults
· 1996 · cited 3,039x
- The Host Defense of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
· 2007 · cited 2,998x
- Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes
· 2020 · cited 2,770x
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Key facts
- Born
- Julius Dassin , ( 1911-12-18 ) December 18, 1911, Middletown, Connecticut , U.S.
- Died
- March 31, 2008 (2008-03-31) (aged 96), Athens , Greece
- Resting place
- First Cemetery of Athens
- Other name
- Perlo Vita
- Occupations
- Director producer writer actor
- Spouses
- Beatrice Launer ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1933 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1962 ) Melina Mercouri ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1966 ; died 1994 )
- Children
- 3, including Joe Dassin
- Awards
- See below
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Jules Dassin 1970b .jpg
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- date of birth
- 1911-12-18
- date of death
- 2008-03-31
- Commons category
- Jules Dassin
- birth name
- Julius Dassin
- name in native language
- Jules Dassin
- start of work period
- 1934-00-00
- end of work period
- 1980-00-00
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Article
Julius "Jules" Dassin (/ˈdæsɪn, dæˈsɪn/ DASS-in, dass-IN; December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008) was an American film and theatre director, producer, writer and actor. A subject of the Hollywood blacklist, he subsequently moved to France, and later Greece, where he continued his career. He was best-known for his noir and crime films, though he also worked in other genres. He won the Best Director Award at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival for his pioneering heist film Rififi, and received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Never on Sunday (1960).
He adapted Never on Sunday into the stage musical Illya Darling, earning Tony nominations for Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical. Dassin's other notable films included Brute Force (1947), The Naked City (1948), Thieves' Highway (1949), Night and the City (1950), Topkapi (1964), and Uptight (1968).