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Joseph Walton Losey III ( / ˈloʊsi /; January 14, 1909 – June 22, 1984) was an American theatre and film director, producer, and screenwriter. Born in Wisconsin, he studied in Germany with Bertolt Brecht and then returned to the United States.
Joseph Losey. Director: The Servant. Belonging to an important family clan in Wisconsin, Joseph Losey studied philosophy but was always interested in theater and thus worked together with Bertolt Brecht. After directing some shorts for MGM, he made his first important film, The Boy with Green Hair (1948), for RKO.
Jun 26, 2024 · Joseph Losey (born Jan. 14, 1909, La Crosse, Wis., U.S.—died June 22, 1984, London, Eng.) was an American motion-picture director, whose highly personal style was often manifested in films centring on intense and sometimes violent human relationships.
Mar 21, 2003 · Losey was a vulgar artist, and he used his vulgarity as a piercing spotlight on human relationships. Many of his best films, like The Sleeping Tiger (1954) and Secret Ceremon y, are hilariously “bad,” but Losey’s electric instincts thrust them up into the domain of exciting art.
For nearly all of his long and remarkably productive career, Joseph Losey (1909-1984) was a filmmaker in exile. Losey's brief yet promising Hollywood career was abruptly derailed when his outspoken commitment to leftist politics made him a choice target of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Jun 23, 1984 · Joseph Losey, the American film director who spent three decades in Europe after fleeing the United States in the McCarthy era, died today at his London home. He was 75 years old.
Joseph Losey. Director: The Servant. Belonging to an important family clan in Wisconsin, Joseph Losey studied philosophy but was always interested in theater and thus worked together with Bertolt Brecht.
