Edward Dmytryk — American Director born on September 04, 1908, died on July 01, 1999

Edward Dmytryk was a Canadian-born American film director. He was known for his 1940s film noirs and received an Oscar nomination for best director for Crossfire... (wikipedia)

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.
In art, the obvious is a sin.
Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.
With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.