Jules Dassin (born Julius Dassin on December 18, 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut) is an American film director. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist. One of eight children of a Russian-Jewish barber, Dassin started as a Yiddish actor with the ARTEF ("Yiddish Proletarian Theater") company in New York, but became well-known for his noir films "Brute Force", "The Naked City", and "Thieves' Highway" in the 1940s. Wikipedia
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Jules Dassin's film with Melina Mercouri "Never on Sunday" won the Best Film Award at Cannes in the 1960s. Married to Mercouri, he was very active in their efforts to restore democracy to Greece during the dictatorship of the Colonels. She later became th www.imdb.com/name/nm0202088/