Joseph H. Lewis
Joseph Harold Lewis ( born April 6, 1907 in New York; † August 30, 2000 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American film director.
Life
Lewis, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, was at the age of 25 years to Hollywood and turned from 1937 a series of B-movies in different genres before My name is with the film noirs Julia Ross, Dangerous passion and secret ring 99 temporarily attention excited. While Dangerous passion and secret ring 99 were judged partly critically on the cinema release, among other things because of their remarkably low budgets, but retrospectively declared majority classics. 1998 Dangerous Passion was recorded as " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant " in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
After secret ring 99 Lewis returned to " routine cheap" (Foster Hirsch). From 1958 to Lewis worked exclusively as a director of television series.