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Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian-born American film director and editor. He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfire (1947). In 1947, he was named as one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who refused to testify to ...
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- September 4, 1908, Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada
- Canadian (1908-1939), American (1939-1999)
- July 1, 1999 (aged 90), Encino, Los Angeles, California, United States
Jul 3, 1999 · Edward Dmytryk, the once-influential director who made his mark in the 1940s with noirish thrillers such as “Murder My Sweet” but whose work was eclipsed by his decision to name names before...
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Edward Dmytryk & the Blacklist. Odd Man Out. by Glenn Lovell. LOS ANGELES — Still plenty hard-nosed, like one of his hellbent heroes, Edward Dmytryk in 1996 wasn’t ready to concede that he had entered into the Hollywood version of a Faustian bargain to save his skin.
Dec 16, 2009 · The 10 individuals who defied HUAC were Alvah Bessie (c. 1904-85), Herbert Biberman (1900-71), Lester Cole (c. 1904-85), Edward Dmytryk (1908-99), Ring Lardner Jr. (1915-2000), John Howard...
In September 1950, one of the Ten, director Edward Dmytryk, publicly announced that he had once been a Communist and was prepared to give evidence against others who had been as well. He was released early from jail; following his 1951 HUAC appearance, in which he described his brief membership in the party and named names, his career recovered.
Oct 27, 2022 · Lewis Milestone, Dalton Trumbo, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., John H. Lawson, and Albert Maltz, among others, appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, DC on October 27, 1947.
Edward Dmytryk was an American motion-picture director whose notable films include Murder, My Sweet (1944), Crossfire (1947), The Caine Mutiny (1954), and The Young Lions (1958). He was one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film-industry individuals blacklisted for their alleged communist.
