Joseph Losey
Joseph Losey ( born January 14, 1909 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, † June 22, 1984 in London ) was an American film director.
Life
Losey was born into a well-established New England family. He studied philosophy, but soon joined a theater group, the Dartmouth player, and worked as an assistant director. Already at this time he clung to socialist ideas and looked Bertolt Brecht as a political and aesthetic model.
On a trip to Europe, he met with his idol Brecht and Erwin Piscator. After his return to the U.S. in 1932 Losey worked until 1937 at various theaters, where he applied his European findings. For five years he was employed by the Rockefeller Foundation. In the Department of Human Relations Commission Film Project, he oversaw the intersection of documentary and educational films. In 1942, he hosted the radio program World at War for NBC and CBS, before moving back to MGM to a personal invitation from Louis B. Mayer.
After the war, Losey turned back to the first theater before RKO for his first feature film, The boy with the green hair turned, 1948. Until 1951 he turned more feature films, including Fritz Lang's M after the same- classic.
1951 was Losey's name during interrogation by sympathizers of the Communist Party before the House Un - American Activities Committee ( HUAC ). In order to avoid a subpoena, Losey made his next film, Giacomo ( Imbarco a mezzanotte ) abroad. After his return to the United States was Losey, since his name had been called before the HUAC, neither in the film nor on the radio or at the theater employment. He went into exile in England, where he worked under a pseudonym and later in collaboration with screenwriter Harold Pinter his three best films turned: The servant on a novel by Robin Maugham, Accident - Incident at Oxford on a novel by Nicholas Mosley and The Mediator from the novel by LP Hartley. All three films studied social constraints and class barriers. To Losey's regular main cast included Dirk Bogarde and Stanley Baker.
Joseph Losey has advanced significantly as a director, especially the careers of Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox and James Fox.