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Name: Joseph Losey  
   
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Date of Birth: 14th January 1909
   
Place of Birth: La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
   
Profession: Director
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Joseph Losey (January 14, 1909 - June 22, 1984) was an American theater and film director.

He was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood.

During the McCarthy Era, he was investigated for his supposed ties with the Communist Party and was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses. His career in shambles, he moved to London, where he continued working as a director.

His film The Go-Between won the Golden Palm Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. Even in the UK, however, he experienced problems: his first British film, The Sleeping Tiger,a 1954 film noir crime thriller, did not bear his name originally in the credits as director, as the stars of the film, Alexis Smith and Alexander Knox, feared being blacklisted in Hollywood due to working on a film he directed. He was originally slated to direct the 1956 Hammer Films production X the Unknown, after a few days work on the project star Dean Jagger refused to work with a supposed Communist sympathiser and Losey was moved off the project.

Losey died in London in 1984.

External Links

  • Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database

Filmography as director includes

Film Year


Pete Roleum and His Cousins 1939
Youth Gets a Break 1941
A Child Went Forth 1941
A Gun in His Hand 1945
Leben des Galilei 1947
The Boy with Green Hair 1948
The Lawless 1950
The Prowler 1951
M 1951
The Big Night 1951
Imbarco a mezzanotte 1951
The Sleeping Tiger 1954
A Man on the Beach 1955
The Intimate Stranger 1956
Time Without Pity 1957
The Gypsy and the Gentleman 1958
Blind Date 1958
First on the Road 1959
The Criminal 1960
Eva 1962
The Damned 1963
The Servant 1963
King & Country 1964
Modesty Blaise 1966
Accident 1967
Secret Ceremony 1968
Figures in a Landscape 1970
The Go-Between 1970
The Assassination of Trotsky 1972
A Doll's House 1973
The Romantic Englishwoman 1975
Galileo 1975
Monsieur Klein 1976
Les Routes du sud 1978
Don Giovanni 1979
La Truite 1982
Steaming 1985

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