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BIRTHDAY
DIED
March 31, 2008

RECENT CREDITS
Buzz (FILM)  Aug. 25, 2006
Bittersweet Place (FILM)  Jan. 1, 2005
Rififi (FILM)  Jul. 21, 2000
Night and the City (FILM)  Oct. 16, 1992
Circle of Two (FILM)  Jan. 1, 1981
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BIOGRAPHY
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....
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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.
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Director Jules Dassin Dies
Apr. 1, 2008
Filmmaker Jules Dassin has died following a short illness. He was 96.

Dassin, Hershfeld to show early work
Posted: Oct. 11, 2001
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