American film director Jules Dassin, maker of 'Never on Sunday' and 'Topkapi,' dies at 96

The Associated Press

Published: March 31, 2008, International Herald Tribune

ATHENS, Greece: American director Jules Dassin, whose Greek wife Melina Mercouri starred in his hit movie "Never on Sunday" and six more of his films, died late Monday at an Athens hospital, officials said. He was 96. The cause of death was not made public. A spokeswoman for Hygeia hospital said only that he had been treated there the past two weeks. Dassin, a leftist activist whose more than 20 films also included "Topkapi," abandoned Hollywood in 1950 during the Communist blacklisting era...