Edward Dmytryk (1908 - )

• director, producer
• born September 4, 1908, Grand Forks, British Columbia
• filmography
• educated at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
• former projectionist and editor at Paramount
• directed his first film, The Hawk, in 1935.
• made several socially and politically oriented films, such as Hitler's Children (1943) and Crossfire (AAN) (1947)
• fellow director Sam Wood gave his name to the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
• one of the Hollywood Ten cited for contempt of Congress after refusing to testify, Dmytryk was fired by RKO and spent some time in England, where he made several movies
• forced to return to the US in 1951 to renew his passport, he was arrested and sentenced to six months in jail
• Dmytryk then appeared before HUAC a second time, recanting his earlier statements, "named names," and was removed from the blacklist
• went on to direct several films, most notably The Sniper (1952), and worked on a number of big-budget productions, most of which lacked the edge of his earlier, more modest works
• published a series of books on film, including:
  • On film editing : an introduction to the art of film construction (1984)
  • On screen acting : an introduction to the art of acting for the screen (1984) with Jean Porter Dmytryk
  • On screen directing (1984)
  • On screen writing (1985)
  • On film making (1986)
  • Cinema: concept and practice (1988)
• autobiographical books:
  • Odd man out : a memoir of the Hollywood Ten (1955)
  • It's a Hell of a Life, but Not a Bad Living (1978)
• biography: Edward Dmytryk, film director (1990) by Robert Fischer
• quote: My lifelong ambition has been to spend my money as soon as I can get it.