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Jules Dassin

Jules Dassin

Actor · Director · Writer

Jules Dassin. Director: Rififi. Jules Dassin was an Academy Award-nominated director, screenwriter and actor best known for his films Rififi (1955), Sonntags... nie! (1960), and Topkapi (1964). He was born Julius Samuel Dassin on 18 December 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He was one of eight children of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Samuel Dassin and Berthe Vogel. Young Dassin grew up in Harlem, and he attended Morris High School in the Bronx, graduating...

Jules Dassin. Director: Rififi. Jules Dassin was an Academy Award-nominated director, screenwriter and actor best known for his films Rififi (1955), Sonntags... nie! (1960), and Topkapi (1964). He was born Julius Samuel Dassin on 18 December 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He was one of eight children of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Samuel Dassin and Berthe Vogel. Young Dassin grew up in Harlem, and he attended Morris High School in the Bronx, graduating...

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