American expatriate Jules Dassin, director of such films as “Naked City,” “Rififi,” “Never on Sunday” and “Topkapi,” died Monday in Athens. He was 96. With a couple of exceptions, Dassin lived and ...

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 ...

Jules Dassin, 96, an American filmmaker who was blacklisted for alleged communist sympathies and who flourished as an expatriate with the celebrated "Rififi" and "Never on Sunday," died March 31 at an ...

Just a week after Richard Widmark, the star of his classic 1950 noir Night And The City, passed away, director Jules Dassin has followed at age 96. Dassin was one of the masters of the noir genre, ...

In 1968, filmmaker Jules Dassin collaborated with Ruby Dee and civil rights activist Julian Mayfield on Uptight, a "politically radical" film noir about Black revolution, framed against the April 4 ...

Director Jules Dassin, the American-born auteur behind the 1955 film-noir masterpiece Rififi, died March 31 in Athens. He was 96. Rififi, a safe-cracking caper that earned a long-delayed reissue in ...

Jules Dassin was the director not only of The Naked City, but of such memorable films as Brute Force (1947)—and after his exile from the United States— Night and the City (1950), Rififi (1955), Never ...

Le cinéaste américain Jules Dassin est décédé lundi à Athènes à l’âge de 96 ans des suites d’une grippe, a-t-on annoncé de source hospitalière. «?La Grèce est en deuil d’un important créateur et d’un ...

Up Tight, by Director Jules Dassin, is really two films. One is a groping attempt to comprehend the current state of black militancy. The other is a creaky pastiche of John Ford’s 1935 masterpiece, ...