Best Known as:American director, screenwriter, and actor who was blacklisted
in the United States
Deathplace: Athens, Greece
Jules Dassin was a film director, screenwriter, and actor who became
successful in Europe after being blacklisted from Hollywood in the 1950s.
Dassin is well-known for his films such as "Never on Sunday" (1960),
"Topkapi" (1964), and "Riffi" (1954). He left Hollywood for France in 1953
because as a former Communist Party member (1930-1939), he was
blacklisted. He won a best-director award in the 1955 Cannes Film Festival
for the first film he made in France, "Riffi." Dassin had a successful
career abroad, and directed again in the United States in the late 1960s.
