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3 unusual facts about Joseph Losey


Gavrik Losey

Gavrik was born in New York, the son of film director Joseph Losey and fashion designer Elizabeth Hawes.

The Hide

The Hide is a 2008 film, the debut from director Marek Losey, grandson of Joseph Losey, who previously had an award-winning career as a director of advertisements.

Tom Milne

His book length studies of film directors include monographs on Joseph Losey (1967) and Rouben Mamoulian (1969) in the Thames & Hudson Cinema One series, the former comprising a series of extended interviews with the director.


Federal Theatre Project

Arthur Miller, Orson Welles, John Houseman, Martin Ritt, Elia Kazan, Joseph Losey, Marc Blitzstein, Arthur Arent and Abe Feder all became established, in part, through their work in the FTP.

Gladys Hill

She went on to be dialogue director on other films such as John Huston's We Were Strangers in 1949, and The Prowler in 1951 which was directed by Joseph Losey.

Jacqueline Sassard

Other films were Three Murderesses (1959), and British Joseph Losey's Accident, with a script by Harold Pinter (1967), where she played an Austrian princess.

Miou-Miou

In her career she has worked with a number of international directors, including Michel Gondry, Bertrand Blier, Yves Boisset, Claude Berri, Jacques Deray, Michel Deville, Diane Kurys, Radu Mihăileanu, Patrice Leconte, Joseph Losey, and Louis Malle.

The Assassination of Trotsky

The Assassination of Trotsky is a 1972 British film directed by Joseph Losey with a screenplay by Nicholas Mosley.

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

In 1968, the play was adapted by Williams into the film Boom!, co-starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and directed by Joseph Losey.


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