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Dassin, Jules

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Dassin, Jules (1911– )

US-born international film director and actor. He is best known for his heist film Du Rififi chez les homes/Rififi (1954) and his bawdy comedy Pote Tin Kyriaki/Never on Sunday (1960), both of which were internationally successful.

After directing the violent prison film Brute Force (1947) and the thriller Naked City (1948), he left the USA in the wake of the anticommunist witch-hunts. In 1950 he made the London-set film noir Night and the City. He won a best director award at the Cannes Film Festival for Rififi (1954). Never on Sunday, filmed in Greece, stars Dessin opposite Melina Mercouri, his wife from 1966 until her death in 1994.

He later returned to the USA to film Up Tight (1968). His other films include Thieves' Highway (1949) and Topkapi (1964).



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