Joseph Losey
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Joseph Losey (January 14, 1909 in La Crosse, Wisconsin – June 22, 1984 in London) was an American theater and film director.
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 also originally slated to direct the 1956 Hammer Films production X the Unknown; however 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.
[edit] Bibliography
- Michel Ciment, Le Livre de Losey. Entretiens avec le cinéaste, Paris, Stock/Cinéma, 1979, 465 p.
- Michel Ciment, Joseph Losey: l'oeil du Maître, Institut Lumière/Actes Sud, 1994, 360 p.
- Penelope Houston, "Losey's Paper Handkerchief", Sight and Sound, Summer 1966, pp. 142–143.
- Gilles Jacob, "Joseph Losey, or The Camera Calls", Sight and Sound, Spring 1966, pp. 62–67.
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[edit] 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 |
| Boom! | 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 |
