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Edward Dmytryk is a Actor, Director, Writer, Producer and Assistant Editor Canadien born on 4 september 1908 at British Columbia (Canada)

Edward Dmytryk

Edward Dmytryk
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Nationality Canada
Birth 4 september 1908 at British Columbia (Canada)
Death 1 july 1999 (at 90 years) at Encino, Los Angeles (USA)

Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian-born American film director who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy-era 'red scare'.

Biography

Edward Dmytryk naît au Canada, de parents ukrainiens. Il est embauché en 1923 par la Paramount Pictures comme coursier, puis il devient chef monteur. Il réalise son premier moyen métrage, The Hawk, en 1935.

Sympathisant de la gauche américaine, il réalise en 1943 Les Enfants d'Hitler, un thriller en forme de violent réquisitoire contre le fascisme. Il adhère au parti communiste américain pendant un an, de 1944 à 1945. Ses convictions lui valent de figurer parmi les « Dix d'Hollywood » convoqués par la Commission des Activités Anti-Américaines (House Committee on Un-American Activities) et d'être condamné à six mois de prison et 500 dollars d'amende. Il s'exile en Grande-Bretagne en 1948. Il y réalise deux films, L'Obsédé (Obsession) et Donnez-nous aujourd'hui (Give Us This Day). Il revient finalement aux États-Unis en 1950, et purge sa peine à la prison fédérale de Mill Point.

Pour s'affranchir des soupçons qui pèsent sur lui, et cédant à la pression, il est amené à dénoncer, comme Elia Kazan, certains communistes et sympathisants de gauche dont l'un de ses amis scénaristes, Adrian Scott, avec lequel il a pourtant longuement collaboré pour la RKO Pictures (Feux croisés), ou encore les réalisateurs Jules Dassin ou John Berry. Cet événement provoque bien sûr un tollé dans le milieu audiovisuel et l'opinion publique. Il marque sans doute un tournant majeur dans l'œuvre tourmentée d'Edward Dmytryk ; ses personnages ambivalents, parfois limite (L'Homme à l'affût, Le Jongleur), entre cruauté et repentir, font sa marque de fabrique. Lui-même veut se racheter de ses erreurs en tournant en 1954 un western antiraciste, La Lance brisée.

Malgré certains grands succès (Ouragan sur le Caine, L'Homme aux colts d'or ou Le Bal des maudits), il n'obtient pas le pardon d'Hollywood. Une certaine critique le considère donc jusqu'à la fin de sa carrière - et peut-être injustement - comme un technicien certes talentueux, mais simple faire-valoir de brillants interprètes.

À la fin de sa vie, il enseigne à l'Université du Texas à Austin et à l'Université de Californie du Sud. Ce cinéaste talentueux, mais très controversé s'éteint en 1999 à Encino, près de Los Angeles, en Californie.

De 1948 jusqu'à sa mort, il est marié à l'actrice américaine Jean Porter (1922-2018).

Best films

The Young Lions (1958)
(Director)
Love Affair (1939)
(Editor)
The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
(Editor)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Edward Dmytryk (75 films)

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Director

Not Only Strangers, 23minutes
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Marcia Gay Harden

He Is My Brother, 1h30
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Bobby Sherman, Keenan Wynn, Robbie Rist, Joaquín Martínez, Benson Fong
Rating55% 2.7682852.7682852.7682852.7682852.768285
Two boys become shipwrecked on an island and find themselves locked in a struggle with lepers and colonists.
The Human Factor, 1h35
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors George Kennedy, John Mills, Rita Tushingham, Barry Sullivan, Raf Vallone, Shane Rimmer
Rating56% 2.804212.804212.804212.804212.80421
John Kinsdale (George Kennedy) works in Naples, Italy, as a NATO computer specialist. He returns home from work one day to find his beloved family brutally murdered.
Bluebeard
Bluebeard (1972)
, 2h5
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films, Children's films
Actors Richard Burton, Karin Schubert, Raquel Welch, Joey Heatherton, Sybil Danning, Nathalie Delon
Rating55% 2.799922.799922.799922.799922.79992
Héros de la première guerre mondiale et membre de la SA, le baron von Sepper dissimule ses cicatrices sous sa barbe bleue. Sa dernière jeune épouse, pénétrant dans une chambre-froide que lui a interdit le baron, découvre les cadavres de ses anciennes compagnes. Avant de la tuer à son tour, Barbe Bleue lui conte ses crimes.
Anzio
Anzio (1968)
, 1h57
Directed by Duilio Coletti, Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Peter Falk, John Arthur Kennedy, Earl Holliman, Mark Damon
Rating59% 2.99882.99882.99882.99882.9988
After meeting a general, war correspondent Dick Ennis (Robert Mitchum) is assigned to accompany US Army Rangers for the upcoming attempt to outflank the tough enemy defenses. The amphibious landing is unopposed, but the bumbling American general, Jack Lesley (Arthur Kennedy) is too cautious, preferring to fortify his beachhead before advancing inland. Ennis and a Ranger drive in a jeep through the countryside, discovering there are few Germans between the beachhead and Rome, but his information is ignored. As a result, the German commander, Kesselring (Wolfgang Preiss), has time to gather his forces and launch an effective counterattack.
Shalako
Shalako (1968)
, 1h53
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors Brigitte Bardot, Sean Connery, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Honor Blackman, Peter van Eyck
Rating56% 2.80322.80322.80322.80322.8032
In 1880 in New Mexico, guide Bosky Fulton leads a hunting party composed of European aristocrats into Apache territory. When a French countess, Irina Lazaar, wanders off alone, she is confronted by Apache men on horseback. She is rescued by Shalako, a former cavalry officer in the American Civil War, sent by the Army to guide the party off Indian land.
Alvarez Kelly, 1h45
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Western
Themes Political films
Actors William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule, Patrick O'Neal, Roger C. Carmel, Harry Carey, Jr.
Rating62% 3.149753.149753.149753.149753.14975
Cattleman Alvarez Kelly (William Holden) is contracted to deliver a herd to the Union Army in Virginia. As he nears the end of his long cattle drive, Kelly is captured by Confederate raiders led by Colonel Tom Rossiter (Richard Widmark). The Confederacy desperately needs the beef to feed its soldiers besieged in Richmond.
Mirage
Mirage (1965)
, 1h48
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, Kevin McCarthy, Leif Erickson, Walter Abel
Rating71% 3.5963553.5963553.5963553.5963553.596355
When the electricity cuts out in the New York skyscraper where he works, cost accountant David Stillwell (Gregory Peck) decides to leave by the darkened stairs rather than wait for power. A young woman (Diane Baker) on the stairs, Shela, greets him as a friend, but he does not know her. Alarmed, she flees into a sub-basement.
The Carpetbaggers, 2h30
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Carroll Baker, Vaughn Taylor, Robert Cummings, Martha Hyer
Rating64% 3.2454953.2454953.2454953.2454953.245495
Jonas Cord becomes one of America's richest men, inheriting an explosives company from his late father. Cord resents his father bitterly and is psychologically scarred by the death of a twin brother. Believing his family has insanity in its blood, he does not want children of his own.
Where Love Has Gone, 1h51
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Mike Connors, Joey Heatherton, Jane Greer, DeForest Kelley
Rating61% 3.050973.050973.050973.050973.05097
The film begins with headlines stating that 15-year-old Danielle Miller (Joey Heatherton) has murdered a man, Rick Lazich, who was the latest lover of her mother Valerie Hayden (Susan Hayward). Dani's father, Luke Miller (Mike Connors) describes the events that led to the tragedy.
Walk on the Wild Side, 1h54
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck, Joanna Moore
Rating66% 3.3467453.3467453.3467453.3467453.346745
Set during the Great Depression, it starts with Dove (Laurence Harvey) and Kitty (Jane Fonda) meeting on the road in Texas as each is traveling separately to New Orleans. They decide to travel together, hitchhiking and hopping freight trains. Dove is hoping to find his lost love Hallie (Capucine), and is not interested when Kitty comes on to him sexually.
The Blue Angel, 1h47
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Curd Jürgens, Stella Stevens, May Britt, Theodore Bikel, John Banner, Ludwig Stössel
Rating61% 3.097213.097213.097213.097213.09721
Professor Immanuel Rath (Curt Jurgens) is shocked to discover a number of his students have been frequenting a nightspot called the Blue Angel, where a scandalous entertainer named Lola (May Britt) performs. Rath attends the show one night in order to catch some of his boys in this den of wickedness, but he is soon drawn into Lola's sensual spell, and in time becomes involved in an obsessive romance with her that costs him his job, his savings and his dignity.