Emerging from La Crosse, Wisconsin, Losey first honed his craft under Bertolt Brecht in Germany before returning to the United States, where a blacklisting in the 1950s forced him to rebuild his career in Europe, chiefly in Britain. His reputation rests on a series of critically acclaimed films, notably the collaborations with Harold Pinter that produced The Servant (1963), Accident (1967) and The…
