Joseph H. Lewis

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Joseph H. Lewis (center, second row) with Glenn Ford filming in 1949

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, went to Hollywood at the age of 25 and made a number of B-movies in various genres from 1937 before temporarily attracting attention with the film noirs My Name is Julia Ross , Dangerous Passion and Secret Ring 99 excited. Although there have been Gun Crazy and secret ring 99 partly judged critical for theatrical release, among other things because of their markedly low budget but retrospectively declared majority classics. 1998 became dangerous passionlisted 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 products" (Foster Hirsch). From 1958 on, Lewis worked exclusively as a director of television series.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1937: The attack on the gold express / Fist law on the Rio Grande (Courage of the West)
  • 1943: Bombs Over Burma
  • 1944: Minstrel Man
  • 1945: My Name Is Julia Ross (My Name Is Julia Ross)
  • 1946: So Dark the Night
  • 1948: Blood feud (The Swordsman)
  • 1948: A horse named October (The Return of October)
  • 1949: Alarm in the Underworld (The Undercover Man)
  • 1950: Dangerous Passion (Gun Crazy)
  • 1950: A Lady Without a Passport
  • 1952: Fire protection for Berta raiding party (Retreat, Hell!)
  • 1953: Cry of the Hunted
  • 1955: A Man Like The Devil (The Lawless Street)
  • 1955: Secret Ring 99 (The Big Combo)
  • 1956: The 7th Cavalry
  • 1957: Driven by Vengeance (The Halliday Brand)
  • 1958: Storm over Texas (Terror in a Texas Town)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Francis M. Nevins: Joseph H. Lewis: Overview, Interview, and Filmography. The Scarecrow Press, 1998, p. 1.
  2. ↑ See, among other things, the review by Bosley Crowther in the New York Times of August 25, 1950, quoted in: James Naremore: More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles / London 1998, ISBN 0-520-21294-0 , pp. 150-151, and Howard Thompson's review in the New York Times of March 26, 1955, accessed April 14 2012.
  3. ↑ See among others Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward (Ed.): Film Noir. An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, Third Edition. Overlook / Duckworth, New York / Woodstock / London 1992, ISBN 978-0-87951-479-2 , pp. 29 and pp. 116-119.
  4. ^ Foster Hirsch: The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir. Da Capo Press, New York 2001, ISBN 0-306-81039-5 , pp. 134-135.
personal data
SURNAME Lewis, Joseph H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lewis, Joseph Harold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and television director
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York, United States
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 2000
Place of death Santa Monica , California, United States