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Edward Dmytryk

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Filmmaker

The Resume

    (September 4, 1908-July 1, 1999)
    Born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada
    Directed 'Hitler's Children' (1943), 'Tender Comrade' (1943), 'Murder, My Sweet' (1944), 'Back to Bataan' (1945), 'Crossfire' (1947), 'Obsession' (1949), 'The Sniper' (1952), 'The Caine Mutiny' (1954), 'Raintree County' (1957), 'Warlock' (1959), 'Walk on the Wild Side' (1962), 'The Carpetbaggers' (1964), 'Where Love Has Gone' (1964), 'Shalako' (1968) and 'Bluebeard' (1972)
    Member of the 'Hollywood Ten'

Why he might be annoying:

    His name was tough to spell and pronounce ('dah-met-trick').
    He earned a scholarship to the California Institute of Technology, but dropped out after a year.
    He got off the Hollywood blacklist by making a return appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee and naming names.
    He justified talking by saying, 'Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on the blacklist.'
    When he appeared at a symposium on the blacklist at the Barcelona Film Festival (1988), blacklistees such as Jules Dassin refused to share the stage with him.

Why he might not be annoying:

    His father beat him regularly until juvenile authorities allowed him to live on his own at age 15.
    He and Jean Porter were married for 51 years until his death.
    'Crossfire' was one of the first Hollywood films about anti-Semitism.
    He agreed to testify before HUAC only after serving four and a half months in prison.
    He said, 'I did not want to remain a martyr to something [Communism] that I absolutely believed was immoral and wrong. It's as simple as that.'

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 50 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 115 Votes: 65.22% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 185 Votes: 52.97% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 22 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 115 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 114 Votes: 76.32% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 57 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 24 Votes: 54.17% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying