Joseph Losey Biography

Joseph Walton Losey III (January 14, 1909 – June 22, 1984) was an American theatre and film director, born in Wisconsin. He studied in Germany with Bertolt Brecht and then returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood. Blacklisted in the United States in the 1950s, he moved to Europe where he made the remainder of his films, mostly in the United Kingdom. Among the most critically and commercially successful were three films with screenplays by Harold Pinter, The Servant (1963), Accident (1967) and The Go-Between (1971).