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Edward Dmytryk
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Director, Editor Born: September 4, 1908 in Grand Forks, BC, Canada Death: July 1, 1999 in Encino, CA Biography:A messenger boy at Paramount in the mid 1920s, "Edward Dmytryk" became an editor in the 1930s and began directing in 1935. By the mid '40s he had such impressive credits as "The Devil Commands" (1941) with "Boris Karloff"; the anti-fascist "Hitler's Children" (1943); the noirs "Murder, My Sweet" (1944) and "Cornered" (1945), starring "Dick Powell"; and "Crossfire" (1947), one of the first Hollywood films to confront anti-Semitism. In 1948 Dmytryk became one of the "Hollywood Ten" when he was accused of having ties to the communist party and was sentenced to a year in prison for contempt of Congress. Following his imprisonment, Dymtryk was blacklisted in the U.S., so he directed three films in England, but returned to the States in 1951. Upon his return he went before the House Un-American Activities Committee again, this time as a "friendly" witness, and his name was dropped from the blacklist. He... Full Biography
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