Edward Dmytryk
Edward Dmytryk | |
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills | |
Nationality | Canadian (1908-1939) American (1939-1999) |
Occupation(s) | Film director, film editor |
Years active | 1929–1979 |
Spouses | |
Children | 4 |
Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian-born American film director and editor. He was known for his 1940s
Background
Dmytryk was born on September 4, 1908, in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada. His Ukrainian immigrant parents were Frances (Berezowski) and Michael Dmytryk,[3] a severe disciplinarian who bounced among jobs as truck driver, smelter worker, and motorman.[4] The family moved to San Francisco, California, and then to Los Angeles. After his mother died, his father remarried.
Career
Dmytryk worked as a messenger at Famous Players–Lasky (forerunner of Paramount Pictures) for $6 per week while attending Hollywood High School.[citation needed] He progressed to projectionist, film editor, and by age 31, a director and a naturalized citizen of the United States.[citation needed]
1930–1940s
Dmytryk worked in the editing department on films such as The Dance of Life (1929), Only Saps Work (1930), The Royal Family of Broadway (1930), Make Me a Star (1932), The Phantom President (1932), and If I Had a Million (1932). He helped edit two Leo McCarey movies: Duck Soup (1933) and Six of a Kind (1934). He edited College Rhythm (1934), followed by Leo McCarey's Ruggles of Red Gap (1935).
Dmytryk made his directorial debut with
Dmytryk did some uncredited directing on Million Dollar Legs (1939) with Betty Grable. This encouraged Paramount to allow him to direct Television Spy (1939). He followed it with Emergency Squad (1940), Golden Gloves (1940), and Mystery Sea Raider (1940) with Carole Landis.
Dmytryk went to Monogram Pictures to direct the musical Her First Romance (1940).
He went over to
Dmytryk signed a contract to
The one-time success did not immediately change his career, and he remained in B movies such as
Dmytryk directed Ginger Rogers, RKO's biggest star, in the melodrama Tender Comrade (1943), which was a huge hit. He followed it with the popular film noir Murder, My Sweet (1944), adapted from Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely by John Paxton and produced by Adrian Scott; the star was Dick Powell, whose performance as Philip Marlowe completely revitalized Powell's career. Dymtryk did Back to Bataan (1945), a war film starring John Wayne, then he was reunited with Powell, Paxton, and Scott for another film noir, Cornered (1945). He did Till the End of Time (1946), a drama about soldiers coming back from the war, which was a big hit, and went to England to make So Well Remembered (1947) with Paxton and Scott.
Dmytryk, Scott, and Paxton then collaborated on the hugely successful thriller Crossfire (1947), for which Dmytryk received a
Hollywood Ten
Dmytryk was among those called to testify before the
Dmytryk fled to England and unofficially was ostracized by the American film industry and his former friends in it. In England, he made two films for producer
On April 25, 1951, Dmytryk appeared before HUAC for the second time and answered all questions.
He recounted his experiences of the period in his 1996 book, Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten (see bibliography).
1950s–1980s
Dmytryk's first film after his testimony was Mutiny (1952) from the King Brothers.[12] Independent American producer Stanley Kramer then hired Dmytryk to direct a trio of low-budget films for Kramer's company, which were released through Columbia: The Sniper (1952), Eight Iron Men (1952) and The Juggler (1953) with Kirk Douglas. In between, he directed Three Lives (1953), a short film for the United Jewish Appeal.[13]
Kramer then selected Dmytryk to direct Humphrey Bogart and Van Johnson in Columbia's The Caine Mutiny (1954), a World War II naval drama adapted from Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. It proved to be a great critical and commercial success, ranking second among high-grossing films of the year, and in 1955, received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Actor.[citation needed]
Dmytryk went over to
He went to
Dmytryk made
Dmytryk wrote and directed
In the 1980s, Dmytryk entered academic life. He taught about film and directing at the
Personal life and death
Dmytryk married his second wife, actress
Legacy and honors
- 1948: Best Director (Oscar nomination) for Crossfire
- 1955: Best Picture (Oscars nomination) for The Caine Mutiny
- 1955: Directors Guild Award(nomination) for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
Filmography
This filmography lists all the feature films directed by Dmytryk and may be complete:[citation needed]
- The Hawk (1935)
- Million Dollar Legs (uncredited; 1939)
- Television Spy (1939)
- Emergency Squad (1940)
- Golden Gloves (1940)
- Mystery Sea Raider (1940)
- Her First Romance (1940)
- The Devil Commands (1941)
- Under Age (1941)
- Sweetheart of the Campus (1941)
- The Blonde from Singapore (1941)
- Secrets of the Lone Wolf (1941)
- Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941)
- Counter-Espionage (1942)
- Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942)
- Hitler's Children (1943)
- The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)
- Captive Wild Woman (1943)
- Behind the Rising Sun (1943)
- Tender Comrade (1943)
- Murder, My Sweet (1944)
- Back to Bataan (1945)
- Cornered (1945)
- Till the End of Time (1946)
- So Well Remembered (1947)
- Crossfire (1947)
- Obsession (1949)
- Give Us This Day (1949)
- Mutiny (1952)
- The Sniper (1952)
- Eight Iron Men (1952)
- The Juggler (1953)
- The Caine Mutiny (1954)
- Broken Lance (1954)
- The End of the Affair (1954)
- Soldier of Fortune (1955)
- The Left Hand of God (1955)
- The Mountain (1956)
- Raintree County (1957)
- The Young Lions (1958)
- Warlock (1959)
- The Blue Angel (1959)
- Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
- The Reluctant Saint (1962)
- The Carpetbaggers (1964)
- Where Love Has Gone (1964)
- Mirage (1965)
- Alvarez Kelly (1966)
- Anzio (1968)
- Shalako (1968)
- Bluebeard (1972)
- He Is My Brother (1975)
- The "Human" Factor(1975)
See also
- The Hollywood Ten documentary
References
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The 27th Academy Awards (1955) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 20, 2011.
- ^ "FamilySearch.org". FamilySearch.
- ^ Dunbar, David L. (November 16, 2015). "The Hollywood Ten: The Men Who Refused to Name Names". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ Vallance, Tom (July 3, 1999). "Obituary: Edward Dmytryk". The Independent. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
- The Argus (Australia), March 4, 1944, p. 3. Retrieved: April 22, 2018.
- ^ "Top Grossers of the Season." Variety, January 5, 1944, p .54.
- ^ Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994
- ^ "Hollywood Ten". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
- ^ ProQuest 112000467.
- ProQuest 166238047.
- ProQuest 166225323.
- ProQuest 166231060.
- ^ "Actress, Director Wed May 12, 1948 in Ellicott, Maryland". The Cumberland News. May 13, 1948. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Edward Dmytryk". www.nndb.com.
Bibliography
- Dmytryk, Edward (1996). Odd Man Out: a Memoir of the Hollywood Ten. Carbondale, Illinois, USA: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0-8093-1999-3.
External links
- Edward Dmytryk at IMDb