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Joseph Sargent (born Giuseppe Danielle Sorgente; July 22, 1925 – December 22, 2014) was an American film director. Though he directed many television movies, his best known feature-length works were arguably the action movie White Lightning starring Burt Reynolds, the biopic MacArthur starring Gregory Peck, and the horror anthology Nightmares.
Dec 24, 2014 · Joseph Sargent, a prolific director whose best-known film was “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” and whose dozens of TV movies included explorations of sensitive racial topics, died Monday at...
Dec 24, 2014 · Joseph Sargent, a director who won four Primetime Emmy Awards for television movies but whose best-known work was the 1974 thriller “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three,” which chillingly...
Dec 22, 2014 · Joseph Sargent (July 22, 1925 – December 22, 2014) is an American film director. He has directed many television movies, but his best known feature film works are probably White Lightning, MacArthur, Nightmares and Jaws: The Revenge, with his most popular film being The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.
Joseph Sargent was an American film director. Though he directed many television movies, his best known feature-length works were arguably the action movie White Lightning starring Burt Reynolds, the biopic MacArthur starring Gregory Peck, and the horror anthology Nightmares.
The son of Italian immigrants, Joseph Sargent rose from blue collar New Jersey to Hollywood, but his best work as a director, the masterful action film "The Taking of Pelham One...
Joseph Sargent (born Giuseppe Danielle Sorgente, July 22, 1925 – December 22, 2014) was an American movie and television director and producer. He was best known for his movies White Lightning, MacArthur, Nightmares, Jaws: The Revenge, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. He won four Emmy Awards.
