Jules Dassin originally started out as an actor and was a member of the Yiddish ARTEF (Arbeter Teater Farband) Players in New York remaining a member of the troupe until 1939. He quickly realized he ...

American-born film director Jules Dassin, a target of the anti-communist frenzy of the late 1940s and early 1950s, died in Athens March 31 at the age of 96. (See: “Jules Dassin, victim of the ...

Producer Darryl Zanuck gave Dassin the script for Night and the City and dispatched him to London to shoot it, days before the Committee was due to grill the director. Then Dassin relocated to France, ...

CriterIoN, a boutique DVD company that’s developed a loyal following among film fanatics with its eclectic mixture of vintage and new films, is serving up two films from blacklisted director Jules ...

Richard Widmark died last week, and now Jules Dassin is dead. Those who know Dassin’s work only from the years of his association with Melina Mercouri—“Never On a Sunday,” “Topkapi”—will be astounded ...

American director Jules Dassin, whose Greek wife Melina Mercouri starred in his hit movie "Never on Sunday" and six more of his films, died late Monday at an Athens hospital, officials said. He was 96 ...

Jules Dassin, the director who died yesterday in Athens at 96, helped set the tone for postwar action films with “The Naked City” and “Rififi.” He had an international smash hit with “Never on Sunday” ...

Jules Dassin originally started out as an actor and was a member of the Yiddish ARTEF (Arbeter Teater Farband) Players in New York remaining a member of the troupe until 1939. He quickly realized he ...

American director Jules Dassin, whose Greek wife Melina Mercouri starred in his hit movie “Never on Sunday” and six more of his films, died late Monday at an Athens hospital, officials said. He was 96 ...