From e-Kathimerini
US director and husband of Melina Mercouri dies in Athens at age 96
Jules Dassin, the US filmmaker and husband of Greek actress and politician Melina Mercouri, died at the Hygeia hospital in Athens last night at the age of 96. Dassin was a respected figure in Greece and is best known for directing, among other films, the French heist movie “Rififi” and “Never on Sunday,” in which Mercouri starred. Dassin was born in Connecticut in 1911 but was forced into exile after being named a communist in 1952 before a hearing of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee. Dassin was married to Mercouri from 1966 until her death in 1994.
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