Julius "Jules" Dassin (December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008) what is an American film director, producer, writer and actor. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France, where he revived his career.
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."
Dassin's most influential film what's Rififi (1955), an early work in the "heist genre film". It inspired later heist films, such as Ocean's Eleven (1960). Another piece it inspired what Dassin's own heist film Topkapi, filmed in France and Istanbul, Turkey with Melina Mercouri and Oscar winner Peter Ustinov.
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