Joseph Losey is a realizer, producer and American scenario writer born the January 14th 1909 with the Stick, in the Wisconsin (the United States), and deceased the June 22nd 1984 with London (the United Kingdom).

Biography

Three elements determine the personality, the career and the work of Joseph Losey: its family origin, the crisis of the years 1930 which carries out it towards the political theater and the Maccarthysme.

• It is resulting from an easy and very puritan family. Its religious education strongly influenced it even if there him remain nothing about it. It is high in a total political insulation, unconscious of social realities until being confronted with the depression of 1929.

• It undertakes studies of Medicine and attends the theater company of the University. Nourished Marx, Trotski and even Stalin, it carries out in 1931 a voyage to Moscow, where it meets directors of theater. In the Thirties, it puts in scene parts " engagées" in New York. He works especially with the decoration, which will be always a capital element of its setting in scene.
• the career of Losey begins under the sign from an unquestionable political commitment, it engages at the side of the American Communist party. Summoned in 1952 to present itself in front of the H.U.A.C. whereas it makes a film in Italy, it chooses to be exiled in Great Britain. Its testimony would undoubtedly not have improved its fate, except carrying out it in prison.

After studies in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey goes back to the United States, arriving until Hollywood.

During the Maccarthysme, he is questioned for his bonds supposed with the Communist party and put on the Black list of Hollywood by the owners of Hollywood Studio. Its threatened career, it moved with London where it continued to work like realizer.

Its film the Messenger ( The Go-Between ) gained the Palme of Gold to the Cannes festival in 1971. Even with the the United Kingdom, it encountered problems: initially proposed to direct the production of Hammer films of 1956 for X the Unknown , Losey was évincé project, because after a few days the star Dean Jagger refused to work with a sympathizer Communiste supposed.

Catalog of films

• 1939 : Pete Roleum and His Cousins
• 1941: Youth Gets has Break
• 1941: has Child Went Forth
• 1945: has Gun in His Hand
• 1947: Leben of Galilei
• 1948: the Boy with the green hair ( The Servant boy with Green To hate )
• 1950: The Lawless
• 1951 : Imbarco has mezzanotte
• 1951: The Prowler
• 1951 : M
• 1951: The Big Night
• 1954 : the Animal wakes up ( The Sleeping Tiger )
• 1955: has Man one the Beach
• 1956: the Foreign close friend ( The Intimate Stranger )
• 1957: Time without pity ( Time Without Pity )
• 1958: The Gypsy and the Gentleman
• 1959: First one the Road
• 1959: the Investigation of the inspector Morgan ( Blind Dates )
• 1960: the Criminals ( The Criminal )
• 1962: Eva
• 1963 : The Damned , or Thesis are the Damned (title of the French version: Damnés )
• 1963: The Serving
• 1964: For the example ( King & Country )
• 1966: Modesty Blaise
• 1967: Accident
• 1968: Boom
• 1968: secret Ceremony ( Secret Ceremony )
• 1970: Figures in has Landscape
• 1970: the Messenger ( The Go-Between )
• 1972: the Assassination of Trotsky ( The Assassination off Trotsky )
• 1973: Doll's house ( has Doll' S House )
• 1975: Galileo
• 1975 : English romantic a ( The Romantic Englishwoman )
• 1976: Mr Klein
• 1978: Roads of the south
• 1979: Don Giovanni
• 1980: Boris Godunov (TV)
• 1982: the Trout
• 1985: Steaming

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