Dassin

[ das-in, da-sin; French da-san ]

noun

1. Jules [joolz, zh, y, l], 1911–2008, French motion-picture director, born in the U.S.

Example Sentences

“They returned when lighter camera equipment was developed in the 1940s, with films like Billy Wilder’s ‘Lost Weekend’ and Jules Dassin’s ‘The Naked City.’

From Los Angeles Times

The Joe Dassin song “Les Champs Élysées” plays during the end credits of 2007’s “The Darjeeling Limited.”

From Los Angeles Times

It was not that 27-year-old Jack Roland Murphy and his accomplices, Allan Kuhn and Roger Clark, were superthieves, like the ones Maximilian Schell and Melina Mercouri portrayed in the then-current Jules Dassin film “Topkapi,” about a plot to steal an emerald-encrusted dagger from the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul — a movie the museum thieves had recently seen.

From Seattle Times

She left for Hollywood in large part to break off their intense relationship, and she soon had a romantic fling with Dassin.

From Washington Post

Ms. Cortese, who appeared in more than 100 movies and TV shows under directors as varied as Robert Wise, Jules Dassin, Terry Gilliam and Federico Fellini, died July 10 in Milan at 96.

From Washington Post