Jules Dassin (or Julius Dassin) was born in 12.18.1911 in Middletown, Connecticut. He was one of eight children in a religion Jewish family which came to US from Odessa, Russia. (his parents  were Samuel Dassin  and Berta Fogelin, the name they got from town Odessa where they came from). Soon after his burning all the family moved to NY, Harlem.  There Jules finished Morrison Bronx School. After that he moved to Europe for continuation his study, but came back soon to start his career as actor with the ARTEF company in New York (Yiddish Proletarian Theater). This innovatory theatre group was created by producer Benno Schneider. As inmate of the famous Russian Vahtangov theatre school Habima, Benno Schneider hold with MHAT traditions + avant-garde’s influence, which was very fashionable in that time.  So Jules becomes an actor of that group taking part in all performances, at the same time he tries himself as a script writer. After ARTEF disintegration in 1940 he begins to come up as producer.

After successful release “Medicine Show “ Dassin gets an invitation to work in Hollywood. During his Hollywood’s period (1940-th) Jules Dassin shoots a number of full-length tapes but sharply feeling absence of creative freedom makes him to break off the contract in 1947 and to return to NY. Here he starts to cooperate with independent movie companies and suddenly one behind another removes four cult detective films in noir neo-realism style for a short while successfully found by it, which bring him popularity and cash success – Brute Force (brute force), 1947; Naked City (the naked city, in New York), 1948; Thieves’ Highway (thieves’ highway, in San Francisco), 1949; And Night and the City (night and city, in London), 1950.
 It is evident that in these works Dassin shows his preference to suspense, tenseness, also he carries off his shooting out of pavilions and uses unprofessional supers and it was highly different from existing film practices.

Filmography

* 1941 – The Tell-Tale Heart (sign heart, short), under Edgar Allan Po’s story “Heart-expose” (1843), US
* 1942 – Nazi Agent (the Nazi agent), Daniel Amfiteatrov’s music (Daniele Amfitheatrof), US
* 1942 – Reunion in France (reunion in France), with Joanne Crawford and John Wayne in leading roles, US
* 1943 – Young Ideas (fresh ideas), a romantic comedy, Ava Gardner in an incidental role, US
* 1943 – The Canterville Ghost (Canterville phantom), under Oscar Wilde’s story, US
* 1946 – A Letter for Evie, US
* 1946 – Two Smart People (two clever persons), with Luigi Ball in a leading role, Vladimir Sokolov in minor (Monsieur Jacques Dufour), US
* 1947 – Brute Force, in leading roles are Bert Lancaster and Jim Cronin, US
* 1948 – The Naked City (the nude city), the premium “Oscar” for the best camerawork (William Daniels), in an incidental role was removed actor David Opatoshu (the son of Jewish writer Opatoshu) – Dassen’s friend from ARTEF theatre, US
* 1949 – Thieves’ Highway (thieves’ highway), under the novel « the Thieves’ market » has written the script A.I. (Albert Isaac) Bezzerides (1908-2007), in an incidental role was removed actor David Opatoshu, US
* 1950 – Night and the City (night and city), the designer of suits Oleg Kassini, the USA/Great Britain (the remake of 1992 with Robert De Niro and Jessica Lang, US
* 1952 – The Trio: Rubinstein, Heifetz and Piatigorsky million dollar trio short, the Great Britain
* 1955 – Rififi (Du Rififi chez les Hommes; Rififi, or man’s disassemblies), Dassin’s adapted script, and is role Cesar le Milanais under pseudonym Perlo Vito; the premium for the best direction on the Cannes film festival; in a remake of 2007 Al Pacino will play; France
Dassin and Melina Merkuri in film « Only not on Sunday »
* 1956 – Who Must Die (Celui qui doit mourir; what should die), Dassin’s script, Melina Merkuri in role Katrina, Joseph Dassin (son of Jules Dassin) in an incidental role (a debut at cinema), France/Italy
* 1958 – La Legge (La Loi/Where the Hot Wind Blows; where the warm wind, or the law), Dassin’s adapted script, in leaging roles – Gina Lollobrigida (Marietta), Marcello Mastroianni (engineer Enriko Tosso) blows; in leading roles Melina Merkuri, Willows Montan, Joseph Dassin (Niko), Italy/France
* 1960 – Never on Sunday, a romantic comedy, in leading roles Melina Merkuri (cheeful prostitute Ilija, a prize for the best actor’s work on a film festival in Cannes) and Dassin (the American tourist Homere Trejs); the premium “Oscar” for music underneath and two nominations; the premium « the Gold globe » as to the best foreign film of year, Greece
* 1962 – Phaedra (Fedra), with Melina Merkuri and Anthony Perkins in leading roles, Dassin in roles Christo, US
* 1964 – Topkapi (Topkapi), script Monia Danishevski, with Melina Merkuri, and Peter Ustinov (Oscar for the best man’s role) and Maksimillianom the Shell; Joe (Josef) Dassin in role Iosefa, and also the second assistant to the director; Akim Tamirov and Segal in episodes; has served as inspiration for a TV serial and a film Mission it is impracticable; US
* 1966 – 10:30 P.M. Summer (10:30 evenings, summer), with Melina Merkuri and <b>Romy Schneider</b>, USA/Spain, 1966
* 1967 – Survival (a Hebrew: h?Milhama it is scarlet h?shalom; a survival, or war or peace), documentary, Israel/USA
* 1968 – Uptight (in a pressure), Z.Dassena’s script, Boris Kaufmana’s cinematography, the USA, 1968
* 1970 – La Promesse de l’Aube (Promise at Dawn; the promise at a dawn, under one-nominal autobiographical novel Romain Gary), Melina Merkuri as Nina Katsev (Roman Gary mother of Fumes), Dassin under pseudonym Perlo Vita in Ivan Mozzhuhin’s role, Dassin’s daughter Julie Dassin in an incidental role of the girlfriend of Fumes, other daughter – the author of words to songs of a soundtrack, in a role young Romen Fumes (Novel Katseva) son of Moshe Dajan the Israeli actor Assi (Assaf) Dajan (b.in 1945), France/USA
* 1974 - The Rehearsal (rehearsal), Dassin’s adapted script, with Olympia Dukakis in a leading role, in roles – Melina Merkuri, Arthur Miller and Maksymilian Shell, the Great Britain
* 1978 – A Dream of Passion (passionate dream), Dassin’s script, with Melina Mercury and Ellen Burstyn, the USA/Switzerland
* 1980 – Circle of Two (a circle from a two, or delusion), Canada