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Filmmaker · England, France

Joseph Losey

Died in 1984

Joseph Losey was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on 14 January 1909. A graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard, he directed plays in New York in the thirties and in 1935 followed Eisenstein's teaching in Moscow. After several films in Hollywood, he was blacklisted in the early fifties and settled in England, where he at first worked without being able to sign his films. He died in London on 22 June 1984.

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