Film Director Jules Dassin Dies

[Lydia Leftcoast]

Source: BBC

American film director Jules Dassin has died in an Athens hospital after a short illness, at the age of 96.

Blacklisted in Hollywood after WWII, he went to Europe where he married the late Greek actress and later culture minister Melina Mercouri.

She starred in Mr Dassin's most famous film, Never on Sunday.

After her death in 1994, Mr Dassin fought to realise her main goal: the return of the Parthenon, or Elgin, marbles from Britain to Greece.

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While Dassin was most famous as "Mr. Melina Mercouri," he actually had a directing career in France after being blacklisted here. When I saw his name as director of the French heist film "Rififi," I thought (judging from his name) that he was French.