Joseph Losey
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Losey in 1965
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| Born |
Joseph Walton Losey III January 14, 1909 La Crosse, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | June 22, 1984 (aged 75) London, England, U.K. |
| Alma mater |
Dartmouth College Harvard University |
| Occupation | Director |
| Years active | 1933–1984 |
| Spouse(s) |
Elizabeth Hawes (m. 1937; div. 1944) Dorothy Bromiley (m. 1956; div. 1963) Patricia Mohan |
| Children | 2 |
Joseph Walton Losey III (January 14, 1909 – June 22, 1984) was an American theatre and film director, born in Wisconsin. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood. In the 1950s Losey was blacklisted in the United States and moved to Europe where he made the remainder of his films, mostly in the United Kingdom. Among the most critically and commercially successful were three films with screenplays by Harold Pinter, The Servant (1963), Accident (1967) and The Go-Between (1971).
Joseph Walton Losey III was born on January 14, 1909 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he and Nicholas Ray were high-school classmates. He attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University, beginning as a student of medicine and ending in drama.
Losey became a major figure in New York political theatre, first directing the controversial failure Little Old Boy in 1933. He declined to direct a staged version of Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis, which led Lewis to offer him his first work written for the stage, Jayhawker. Losey directed the show, which had a brief run.Bosley Crowther in The New York Times noted that "The play, being increasingly wordy, presents staging problems that Joe Losey's direction does not always solve. It is hard to tell who is responsible for the obscure parts in the story."
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