Jules Dassin Net Worth

Jules Dassin was an American film director, actor, producer and screenwriter who achieved success in Europe after being blacklisted from Hollywood due to his association with the American Communist Party. He directed several noir films in Hollywood, including 'Thieves Highway', 'The Naked City', 'Brute Force' and 'Night and the City', before moving to France and directing the successful 'Rififi', which won him the Best Director award at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. He went on to direct several other successful films, including 'Never on Sunday', 'Topkapi', 'He Who Must Die' and 'La Legge', and also performed in many of his films. He also directed the Broadway musical 'Illya Darling', based on his film 'Never on Sunday', which starred his wife Melina Mercouri, who received a Tony Award nomination for her performance. Dassin eventually returned to Hollywood in the late 1960s with films like 'Uptight' and 'Promise at Dawn'.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Film Director, Producer
Birth Day December 18, 1911
Birth Place Middletown, Connecticut, U.S., United States
Age 109 YEARS OLD
Died On March 31, 2008(2008-03-31) (aged 96)\nAthens, Greece
Birth Sign Capricorn
Spouse(s) Béatrice Launer (1937–1962; divorced) Melina Mercouri (1966–1994; her death)
Children Joseph Ira Dassin Richelle Dassin Julie Dassin (fr)

💰 Net worth: $18 Million (2024)

Jules Dassin, a well-known film director and producer in the United States, is anticipated to have a net worth of $18 million in 2024. Throughout his career, he has made significant contributions to the world of cinema, creating a name for himself with his creative vision and storytelling abilities. Dassin has directed and produced several acclaimed films, leaving a lasting impact on the industry. His impressive net worth is a testament to his successful career and the recognition he has garnered over the years.

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Biography/Timeline

1930

Dassin was born in Middletown, Connecticut, one of eight children of Berthe Vogel and Samuel Dassin, a barber. His family was of Ukrainian-Jewish and Polish-Jewish extraction. Dassin grew up in Harlem and went to Morris High School in the Bronx. He joined the Communist Party USA in the 1930s and left it after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in 1939. He started as a Yiddish actor with the ARTEF (Yiddish Proletarian Theater) company in New York. He collaborated on a film with Jack Skurnick that was incomplete because of Skurnick's early death.

1947

Dassin quickly became better known for his noir films Brute Force (1947), The Naked City (1948), and Thieves' Highway (1949), which helped him to become "one of the leading American filmmakers of the postwar era."

1948

Dassin said Darryl F. Zanuck in 1948 called him into his office to inform him he would be blacklisted, but he still had enough time to make a movie for Fox. Dassin was blacklisted in Hollywood during the production of Night and the City (1950). He was not allowed on the studio property to edit or oversee the musical score for the film. He also had trouble finding work abroad, as U.S. distribution companies blacklisted the U.S. distribution of any European film associated with artists blacklisted in Hollywood. In 1952, after Dassin had been out of work for two years, Actress Bette Davis hired him to direct her in the Broadway revue Two's Company. The show closed early, however, and Dassin left for Europe. Dassin did not work as a film Director again until Rififi in 1954 (a French production). Most of Dassin's films in the decades following the blacklist are European productions. His prolific later career in Europe and the affiliation with Greece through his second wife, combined with a Common pronunciation of his surname as "Da-SAN" in Europe, as opposed to "DASS-in" in the United States leads to a Common misconception that he was a European Director.

1955

For his 1955 film Rififi, Dassin earned the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival. His 1960 film Never on Sunday earned the music Academy Award (Manos Hadjidakis,(Greek: Τα παιδιά του Πειραιά), Ta Paidia tou Peiraia), and the Cannes Film Festival best Actress award (Melina Mercouri). In 1982, he was a member of the jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.

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