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Joseph Walton Losey (January 14, 1909 – June 22, 1984) was an American theatre and film director, born in Wisconsin. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood. In the 1950s Losey was blacklisted in the United States and moved to Europe where he made the remainder of his films, mostly in the United Kingdom. == Early life and career == Joseph Losey was born on January 14, 1909 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he was a friend of Nicholas Ray in high school. He attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University, beginning as a student of medicine and ending in drama. Losey became a major figure in New York political theatre, first directing the controversial failure ''Little Old Boy'' in 1933. He declined to direct a staged version of ''Dodsworth'' by Sinclair Lewis, which led Lewis to offer him his first work written for the stage, ''Jayhawker''. Losey directed the show, which had a brief run.〔 Bosley Crowther in the ''New York Times'' noted that "The play, being increasingly wordy, presents staging problems that Joe Losey's direction does not always solve. It is hard to tell who is responsible for the obscure parts in the story." In 1935 he visited the Soviet Union for several months to study the Russian stage. In Moscow he participated in a seminar on film taught by Sergey Eisenstein.〔See Michel Ciment: ''Conversations with Losey''. London New York: Methuen, 1985, p. 37.〕 He also met Bertolt Brecht and the composer Hanns Eisler who were visiting Moscow at the time.〔See Robert Cohen: "Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Losey, and Brechtian Cinema." ''"Escape to Life:" German Intellectuals in New York: A Compendium on Exile after 1933''. Eckart Goebel and Sigrid Weigel (eds.). De Gruyter, 2012. 142-161, here p. 144 ff.〕 In 1936 he directed ''Triple A Plowed Under'' on Broadway, a production of the WPA's Federal Theatre Project. He then directed the second Living Newspaper presentation, ''Injunction Granted''. From 1946 to 1947 Losey worked with Brecht (who was living in exile in Los Angeles) and Charles Laughton on the preparations for the staging of Brecht's play ''Galileo'' (''Life of Galileo'') which he and Brecht eventually co-directed with Laughton in the title role, and with music by Eisler. The play premiered on July 30, 1947, at the Coronet Theatre in Beverly Hills.〔See Cohen, "Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Losey," p. 149.〕 On October 30, 1947 Losey accompanied Brecht to Washington DC for Brecht's appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).〔 Brecht left the US the following day. Losey went on to stage ''Galileo'', again with Laughton in the title role, in New York City where it opened on December 7, 1947 at the Maxine Elliott Theatre. More than 25 years later Losey, in exile in England, would direct a film version of Brecht's play ''Galileo'' (1975). Losey's first feature film, in 1947, was a political allegory entitled ''The Boy with Green Hair'', starring a young Dean Stockwell as Peter, a war orphan who is subject to ridicule after he awakens one morning to find his hair mysteriously turned green. In 1951, Seymour Nebenzal, the producer of Fritz Lang's 1931 classic ''M'', hired Losey to direct a remake of the film set in Los Angeles instead of Germany. The killer's name in the film was changed from Hans Beckert to Martin W. Harrow. Nebenzal's son Harold was associate producer of the 1951 version. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Losey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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