Biography
Jules Dassin was an American film director (The Naked City, Brute Force, Thieves' Highway, Night and the City) who was named as a Communist before HUAC in 1951 by both Edward Dmytryk and Frank Tuttle. Blacklisted in Hollywood, he relocated to France in 1953 and rebuilt his career in Europe, directing the heist masterpiece Rififi (1955) — for which he won Best Director at Cannes — and Never on Sunday (1960), Topkapi (1964), and Promise at Dawn (1970). He married Greek actress Melina Mercouri in 1966 and lived primarily in Greece for the rest of his life. He died in Athens in 2008 at age 96.
