Losey, Joseph

Losey, Joseph

▪ American director
in full  Joseph Walton Losey  
born Jan. 14, 1909, La Crosse, Wis., U.S.
died June 22, 1984, London, Eng.
 American motion-picture director, whose highly personal style was often manifested in films centring on intense and sometimes violent human relationships.

      After graduating from Dartmouth College (B.A., 1929) and Harvard University (M.A., 1930), Losey wrote book and theatre reviews. In 1935, while working as a European-based reporter for Variety, the newspaper of the entertainment industry, he attended classes conducted by Sergey Eisenstein, the foremost Soviet film director and theorist. During the 1930s and '40s Losey directed stage productions on Broadway and for the WPA Federal Theatre Project. One of his greatest artistic successes was the 1947 presentation of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo Galilei.

      Losey directed educational and documentary films in the late 1930s and in 1945 won an Academy Award nomination for the short subject A Gun in His Hand. Gradually, he came to direct full-length features, which were personal statements on controversial topics—e.g., pacifism (The Boy with Green Hair, 1948), racial prejudice (The Lawless, 1950), and police corruption (The Prowler, 1951). Blacklisted in Hollywood in 1952 along with numerous others accused of Communist affiliations, Losey went to England, where he worked anonymously until the release of The Gypsy and the Gentlemen in 1958. Many of his films were written by the British playwright Harold Pinter (Pinter, Harold), including The Servant (1963), Accident (1967), and The Go-Between, which won the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971. They brought him international recognition especially among the French critics. Later films include The Assassination of Trotsky (1972), A Doll's House (1973), Mr. Klein (1976), Don Giovanni (1979), and La Truite (1982; The Trout).

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