Film director, born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. He attended Dartmouth College, NH, and Harvard, and worked first as a show-business reporter before becoming a stage director on Broadway. His early films centred on controversial topics, and when he was blacklisted as a suspected Communist by the McCarthy Committee he left Hollywood for England (1952). Working anonymously at first, he went on to direct a number of successful films, including The Servant (1963), Modesty Blaise (1966), Accident (1967), and The Go-Between, which won the Cannes Film Festival in 1971. From the mid-1970s he worked mainly in France, where his last film was La Truite (1982, The Trout).
Filmography as director includes
| Film | Year |
|---|---|
| Pete Roleum and His Cousins | 1939 |
| Youth Gets a Break | 1941 |
| A Child Went Forth | 1941 |
| A Gun in His Hand | 1945 |
| Leben des Galilei | 1947 |
| The Boy with Green Hair | 1948 |
| The Lawless | 1950 |
| The Prowler | 1951 |
| M | 1951 |
| The Big Night | 1951 |
| Imbarco a mezzanotte | 1951 |
| The Sleeping Tiger | 1954 |
| A Man on the Beach | 1955 |
| The Intimate Stranger | 1956 |
| Time Without Pity | 1957 |
| The Gypsy and the Gentleman | 1958 |
| Blind Date | 1958 |
| First on the Road | 1959 |
| The Criminal | 1960 |
| Eva | 1962 |
| The Damned | 1963 |
| The Servant | 1963 |
| King & Country | 1964 |
| Modesty Blaise | 1966 |
| Accident | 1967 |
| Secret Ceremony | 1968 |
| Boom! | 1968 |
| Figures in a Landscape | 1970 |
| The Go-Between | 1970 |
| The Assassination of Trotsky | 1972 |
| A Doll's House | 1973 |
| The Romantic Englishwoman | 1975 |
| Galileo | 1975 |
| Monsieur Klein | 1976 |
| Les Routes du sud | 1978 |
| Don Giovanni | 1979 |
| La Truite | 1982 |
| Steaming | 1985 |
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