biography
| name: |
Losey, Joseph (Walton)
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pronunciation:
[lohsee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1909–84)
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| biography:
| Film director, born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. He attended Dartmouth College, NH, and Harvard, and worked first as a show-business reporter before becoming a stage director on Broadway. His early films centred on controversial topics, and when he was blacklisted as a suspected Communist by the McCarthy Committee he left Hollywood for England (1952). Working anonymously at first, he went on to direct a number of successful films, including The Servant (1963), Modesty Blaise (1966), Accident (1967), and The Go-Between, which won the Cannes Film Festival in 1971. From the mid-1970s he worked mainly in France, where his last film was La Truite (1982, The Trout). |
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