From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Julius Jules Dassin December 18 1911 March 31 2008 was an American film director producer writer and actor He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career Dassin quickly became better known for his noir films Brute Force 1947 The Naked City 1948 and Thieves Highway 1949 which helped him to become one of the leading American filmmakers of the postwar era Dassins most influential film was Rififi 1955 an early work in the heist film genre It inspired later heist films such as Oceans Eleven 1960 Another piece it inspired was Dassins own heist film Topkapi filmed in France and Istanbul Turkey with Melina Mercouri and Oscar winner Peter Ustinov Dassin said Darryl F Zanuck in 1948 called him into his office to inform him he would be blacklisted but he still had enough time to make a movie for Fox Dassin was blacklisted in Hollywood during the production of Night and the City 1950 He was not allowed on the studio property to edit or oversee the musical score for the film He also had trouble finding work abroad as US distribution companies blacklisted the US distribution of any European film associated with artists blacklisted in Hollywood In 1952 after Dassin had been out of work for two years actress Bette Davis hired him to direct her in the Broadway revue Twos Company The show closed early however and Dassin left for Europe Dassin did not work as a film director again until Rififi in 1954 a French production Most of Dassins films in the decades following the blacklist are European productions His prolific later career in Europe and the affiliation with Greece through his second wife combined with a common pronunciation of his surname as DaSAN in Europe as opposed to DASSin in the United States leads to a common misconception that he was a European director
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