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- ' suffering on the , he

- reporter that he knew that whatever his

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. not 'director of "The Caine Mutiny," "The

- critically acclaimed movie director who as ' refusing to testify before a congressional

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-Hollywood directing career. 'decided to proclaim his former communist By

Other Hollywood figures who were commu- ' , 90, a prominent and Uncooperative Witness Later Testified on Communist Ties; Career Included 'Caine Mutiny,' Crossfire'

,Committee on Un-American Activities one of the "Hollywood Ten" went to jail for

committee about his membership in commu-

1950s. nist groups, died of heart and kidney ail- . "When I die, I know the obits will first

memberships after all, as well as identify

ments July 1 at his home in Encino, Calif.

accomplishments as a director, they would nists. He then was allowed to resume his

Young Lions," "Raintree County" and other be overshadowed by his political troubles

during the Red scares of the and

read 'one of Hollywood's Unfriendly Ten,'

films,' " he said.

munist Party for only a matter of months in

the mid-1940s. Then, in 1947, the House

After first serving a prison sentence and

In 1988, he told an Aii

Mr. Dillyt,yk had belonged to the Com-

RICHARD PEARSON

SUNDAY,

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Writer

4,

1999

ood Ten' Film Director Edward Dmvtrvk Dies

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sociated Press

called him and nine other Hollywood figures

to a Washington hearing,

"name names." He later explained that one others as communists. A1110 were convicted of contempt of Congress. fined and sen- their own party membership or identify

tenced to about a year in prison. dalliance with the party, the only people he committee, admit his party membership and Another was that because of his short could identify as communists had long been of the reasons he had decided to do so was prison, he decided in 1951 to return to the

that he had come to oppose communism.

who was never forgiven by much of Holly- cent Oscar winner Elia Kazan another former communist who named names and known as party members.

wood.

grew up in San Francisco. An unhappy child, immigrant pareAts in British Columbia and "Falcon" police adventure series. worked his way up to film editor and then

the age of 15 was working in Hollywood as a he ran away from home as a teenager and by director of "B" movies. These included messenger at Paramount Studios. He

features in the popular "Boston Blackie" and

All 10 refused to answer questions about

After Mr. Dmytryk was released from

Mr. Dmytryk has been compared to re-

Mr. Dmytryk was born to Ukrainian

OBITUARIES

film, "Murder, My Sweet," based on the

Powell received rave reviews for their work. classic and featuring the Dmytryk, hailed as a master of , and boiled private eye . Both Mr. pleasant crooner as the hard-

fire an early Hollywood examination of

Mr. Dmytryk his only Oscar nomination. went to work for producer , in particular. It starred , and Robert Young and brought racial prejudice in general and antisemitism

was a huge success and featured Humphrey making a series of competent if largely bestselling Herman Wouk novel. The film ingly struck pay dirt with The Caine unremarkable films. Then, in 1954, he seem- Mutiny," a World War II saga based on the the vicious and unstable Captain Queeg. Bogart in one of his most memorable roles,

on the Hollywood map as a major director.

one of the first-sought directors was Edward classic , it seemed for a time that Whether a film was a drama, war movie or amid the splendors of Hong Dmytryk.

Kong in "Soldier of Fortune," the ethereal

In 1944, he directed his first important

Later in the 1940s, he directed "Cross- After serving 4

The film seemed to put Mr. Dmytryk back

He directed a romantic and mysterious

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months in prison, he

also directed Clift, and Dean

Gene Tierney and, once again, Humphrey

Bogart in "," and and in "A Walk on the Wild Side," with Jane Fonda the Civil War epic "Raintree County." He successful as many hoped. These included

and Barbara Stanwyck, and "Anzio," star- Southern California, until retiring altogether 1970s and after directing more than 50 Martin in the World War II film "The Young

Lions." featured major stars but failed to become as

of and then at the University of ring Robert Mitchum. about two years ago. He was the author of movies, he taught film, first at the University

graphical volumes, "It's a Hell of a Life but

Memoir of ." Not a Bad Living" and "Odd Man Out, A filmmaking texts as well as two autobio- last living member of the Hollywood Ten.

Dmytryk ended in divorce.

actress

daughters; and three grandchildren. 1948 and who lives in Encino; two sons; two

He also directed a series of films that

After retiring from directing in the mid-

Writer Ring Lardner Jr., 78, now is the

Survivors include his wife, the dancer and

Mr. Dmytryk's marriage to Madeleine

Jean

Porter, whom he married in