45 Facts About Edward Dmytryk

Edward Dmytryk was a Canadian-born American film director and editor.

Edward Dmytryk was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfire.

In 1951 Dmytryk testified to the HUAC and named individuals, including Arnold Manoff, whose careers were then destroyed for many years, to rehabilitate his own career.

Edward Dmytryk was nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures.

Edward Dmytryk was born on September 4,1908, in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada.

Edward Dmytryk worked as a messenger at Famous Players-Lasky for $6 per week while attending Hollywood High School.

Edward Dmytryk progressed to projectionist, film editor, and by age 31, a director and a naturalized citizen of the United States.

Edward Dmytryk worked in the editing department on films such as The Dance of Life, Only Saps Work, The Royal Family of Broadway, Make Me a Star, The Phantom President, and If I Had a Million.

Edward Dmytryk helped edit two Leo McCarey movies: Duck Soup and Six of a Kind.

Edward Dmytryk edited College Rhythm, and then did Leo McCarey's Ruggles of Red Gap.

Edward Dmytryk made his directorial debut with The Hawk, a low-budget, independent Western.

Edward Dmytryk returned to editing duties at Paramount, but was assigned to B films:Too Many Parents, Three Cheers for Love, Three Married Men, Easy to Take, Murder Goes to College, Turn Off the Moon, Double or Nothing with Bing Crosby, and That Navy Spirit.

Edward Dmytryk edited Bulldog Drummond's Peril and Prison Farm.

Edward Dmytryk moved his way to A movies with Zaza, directed by George Cukor.

Edward Dmytryk returned to Paramount to edit the Bob Hope comedy Some Like It Hot.

Edward Dmytryk did some uncredited directing on Million Dollar Legs with Betty Grable.

Edward Dmytryk followed it with Emergency Squad, Golden Gloves, and Mystery Sea Raider with Carole Landis.

Edward Dmytryk went to Monogram Pictures to direct the musical Her First Romance.

Edward Dmytryk went over to Columbia to direct for its B picture unit: The Devil Commands with Boris Karloff, Under Age, Broadway Ahead, Hot Pearls, Secrets of the Lone Wolf, Confessions of Boston Blackie, and Counter-Espionage, a "Lone Wolf" movie.

Edward Dmytryk signed a contract to RKO, where he continued to direct B movies, starting with Seven Miles from Alcatraz.

Edward Dmytryk directed Ginger Rogers, RKO's biggest star, in the melodrama Tender Comrade, which was a huge hit.

Edward Dmytryk did Till the End of Time, a drama about soldiers coming back from the war, which was a big hit, and went to England to make So Well Remembered with Paxton and Scott.

The House Un-American Activities Committee investigated Communist Party influence in the film industry, and Edward Dmytryk was among those called to testify about it before HUAC in 1947.

Edward Dmytryk briefly had been a Communist Party member in 1944 and 1945.

Edward Dmytryk was persuaded by his former party associates to join nine other Hollywood figures in a public refusal to testify.

When his passport expired, Edward Dmytryk returned to the United States, where he was arrested and imprisoned.

Edward Dmytryk served four months and 17 days in Millspoint Prison, West Virginia.

Edward Dmytryk spoke of his own brief party membership in 1945 and named party members, including seven film directors: Arnold Manoff, Frank Tuttle, Herbert Biberman, Jack Berry, Bernard Vorhaus, Jules Dassin, and Michael Gordon, and 15 others.

Edward Dmytryk said that he was prompted to change his mind by the Alger Hiss case, the discovery of spies in the US and Canada, and the invasion of South Korea.

Edward Dmytryk said that John Howard Lawson, Adrian Scott, Albert Maltz, and others had pressured him to include communist elements in his films.

Edward Dmytryk's testimony damaged several court cases that others of the "Ten" had filed.

Edward Dmytryk recounted his experiences of the period in his 1996 book, Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten.

Edward Dmytryk went over to 20th Century Fox, where he directed Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner in Broken Lance.

Edward Dmytryk went to England to do The End of the Affair for Columbia, then returned to Fox to make Soldier of Fortune with Clark Gable, The Left Hand of God with Bogart, and The Mountain with Tracy and Wagner.

Edward Dmytryk went to MGM, then under his old RKO boss Dore Schary to make Raintree County with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor.

Edward Dmytryk made Walk on the Wild Side for producer Charles Feldman.

Edward Dmytryk had a huge hit with The Carpetbaggers from the novel by Harold Robbins for producer Joseph E Levine.

Edward Dmytryk was given Where Love Has Gone, another Robbins adaptation by Levine.

Edward Dmytryk did the little-seen Edward Dmytryk Is My Brother and The 'Human' Factor.

Edward Dmytryk taught about film and directing at the University of Texas at Austin and at the University of Southern California film school.

Edward Dmytryk wrote several books on the art of film-making.

Edward Dmytryk appeared on the lecture circuit, speaking at various colleges and theaters, such as the Orson Welles Cinema.

Edward Dmytryk married his second wife, actress Jean Porter, on May 12,1948.

Edward Dmytryk died at age 90 on July 1,1999 in Encino, California from heart and kidney failure.

Edward Dmytryk was buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Hollywood.