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The Prowler (1991x7)

Air date: Jun 30, 1991

Joseph Losey was born in 1909. He abandoned medical studies to work in the theatre, becoming a stage manager at Radio City Music Hall and later a director. In 1935 he attended film classes given by Sergei Eisenstein in Moscow, and after serving his country in the Second World War he became friends with Bertolt Brecht and directed a famous stage production of Brecht’s Galileo, starring Charles Laughton.