Joseph H. Lewis

8 films · 1940 to 1958

Born 6 April 1907, Brooklyn · Died 30 August 2000

Joseph H. Lewis was an American director and editor of film and television. In a 30-year directorial career, he directed numerous low-budget westerns, action pictures, musicals, adventures, and thrillers. His stylish B-movies came to be appreciated by auteur theory-espousing film critics in the years following his retirement in 1966. He is known for the films Minstrel Man (1944), The Jolson Story (1946, for which he directed the musical sequences), So Dark the Night (1946), Gun Crazy (1950), and The Big Combo (1955).

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