Joseph Sargent

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Joseph Sargent

Born	Giuseppe Danielle Sorgente (1925-07-22)July 22, 1925 Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	December 22, 2014(2014-12-22) (aged 89) Malibu, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Heart disease
Other names	Joseph Daniel Sargent
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1951–2009
Known for	White Lightning MacArthur Nightmares Jaws: The Revenge The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Spouse(s)	Mary Carver (1952–1968) (divorced) (2 children) Carolyn Nelson (1970-2014) (his death)
Children	Lia Sargent Athena Sargent

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 theatrical releases: Burt Reynolds action movie White Lightning, Gregory Peck biopic MacArthur, and horror anthology Nightmares. His most popular feature film was subway thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Sargent won four Emmy Awards over his career.

He is the father of anime dubbing voice actress Lia Sargent.

Life and career

Sargent was born as Giuseppe Danielle Sorgente in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Italians Maria (née Noviello) and Domenico Sorgente.^[1]^[2] Sargent began his career as an actor, appearing in numerous films and television programs.

He appeared in an uncredited role as a soldier in the film From Here to Eternity (1953) where he also meet his first wife Mary Carver on the set. In the mid 1950s Sargent switched to directing; over the next 15 years his directing credits would include episodes of television series Lassie, The Invaders, The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and Star Trek.

In 1969, he directed his first feature, science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, and in 1972 The Man, starring James Earl Jones, which was begun as a television movie.

He alternated between television movies and feature films during the 1970s. Sargent's directorial work from this period includes; The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, the TV movies Hustling with Lee Remick and Jill Clayburgh and Tribes with Jan-Michael Vincent and Darren McGavin, as well as international award-winning ABC film The Night That Panicked America. In 1974, he won his first Directors Guild of America Award for The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973), which was the TV movie pilot for the Kojak series.

In the 1980s, Sargent directed mini-series Manions of America, which featured Pierce Brosnan, and Space. In 1987 he directed Jaws: The Revenge, the third sequel to Steven Spielberg's 1975 classic. The film received mostly negative reviews. Roger Ebert called his directing of the climactic sequence "incompetent,"^[3] and he was nominated for Worst Director in the 1987 Golden Raspberry Awards.^[4]

He concentrated on TV movies after Jaws: The Revenge, including The Karen Carpenter Story, The Long Island Incident, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and the 2007 remake of Sally Field docudrama Sybil.

Joseph Sargent and his wife Carolyn Nelson Sargent laid the groundwork for Deaf West Theatre.^[5]

Sargent spent time as the Senior Filmmaker-in-Residence for the Directing program at the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles.

Sargent died of complications from heart disease at his home in Malibu, California, on December 22, 2014. He was 89.^[6]

Awards

Sargent was nominated for several Emmy awards. He won four. His first nomination came for his direction of TV movie Tribes (1970). His second nomination, for Kojak pilot The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973), resulted in his first Emmy win. He also won Emmys for Love Is Never Silent (1985), Caroline? (1990) and Miss Rose White (1992).

Sargent was also nominated for Amber Waves (1980), A Lesson Before Dying (1999), Something the Lord Made (2004) and Warm Springs (2005), in which Kenneth Branagh played president Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Early in his career, he won a Directors Guild of America award for the Kojak pilot. Sargent was nominated for eight DGA awards for television movies, more than any other director in this category. In 2005 he won the DGA Outstanding Directorial Achievement award for Something the LORD Made, and another the following year for Warm Springs.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Producer	Actor	Notes
1953	From Here to Eternity			N
1967	Tobruk			N
1968	The Hell with Heroes	N
1970	Colossus: The Forbin Project	N
1972	The Man	N
1973	White Lightning	N
1974	The Taking of Pelham One Two Three	N
1975	The Night That Panicked America	N	N
1977	MacArthur	N
1981	Manions of America	N
1983	Nightmares	N
1985	Love Is Never Silent	N
1985	Space	N			Emmy Award, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or a Special Emmy Award nominee, Outstanding Limited Series Artios Award nominee, Best Casting for TV Miniseries
1987	Jaws: The Revenge	N	N		Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Picture Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Director
1989	The Karen Carpenter Story	N
1998	Mandela and de Klerk	N
1998	The Long Island Incident	N
1999	A Lesson Before Dying	N
2004	Something the Lord Made	N			Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing in a Television Film
2005	Warm Springs	N
2007	Sybil	N
2008	Sweet Nothing in My Ear	N

References

↑ BRUCE BENNETT. "New York's Greatest Starring Roles". nysun.com.
↑ "Joseph Sargent Biography (1925-)". filmreference.com.
↑ Ebert, Roger. "Jaws the Revenge". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved September 18, 2006.
↑ "1987 Archive". Razzies.com. Retrieved December 11, 2006.
↑ "The Deaf West Theatre". DeafWest.org. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
↑ Dave McNary. "Emmy-Winning Director Joseph Sargent Dies at 89". Variety.

External links

Joseph Sargent at the Internet Movie Database
Biography at Hollywood.com at Archive.is (archived 2013-01-25) Includes details of awards.
Joseph Sargent interview video at the Archive of American Television

Films directed by Joseph Sargent

One Spy Too Many (1966)
The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)
The Hell with Heroes (1968)
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Tribes (1970)
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971)
The Man (1972)
White Lightning (1973)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Friendly Persuasion (1975)
The Night That Panicked America (1975)
MacArthur (1977)
Goldengirl (1979)
Coast to Coast (1980)
Nightmares (1983)
Memorial Day (1983)
Choices of the Heart (1983)
Terrible Joe Moran (1984)
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
The Karen Carpenter Story (1989)
Day One (1989)
The Incident (1990)
Never Forget (1991)
Miss Rose White (1992)
Somebody's Daughter (1992)
Skylark (1993)
Abraham (1993)
World War II: When Lions Roared (1994)
My Antonia (1995)
Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
Miss Evers' Boys (1997)
The Long Island Incident (1998)
Crime and Punishment (1998)
A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000)
Bojangles (2001)
Out of the Ashes (2003)
Something the Lord Made (2004)
Warm Springs (2005)
Sybil (2007)
Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008)

Awards for Joseph Sargent

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series

Jack Smight for "Eddie" (1959)
Robert Mulligan for The Moon and Sixpence (1960)
George Schaefer for "Macbeth (II)" (1961)
Franklin J. Schaffner (1962)
Stuart Rosenberg for "The Madman" (1963)
Tom Gries for "Who Do You Kill?" (1964)
Paul Bogart for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965)
Sydney Pollack for "The Game" (1966)
Alex Segal for Death of a Salesman (1967)
Lee H. Katzin (1968)
David Greene for "The People Next Door" (1969)
Paul Bogart for "Shadow Game" (1970)
Daryl Duke for "The Day the Lion Died" / Fielder Cook for "The Price" (1971)
Alexander Singer for "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" / Tom Gries (1972)
Jerry Thorpe for "An Eye for an Eye" / Joseph Sargent for "The Marcus-Nelson Murders" (1973)
John Korty for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Robert Butler for "Part III" (1974)
Bill Bain for "A Sudden Storm" (1975)
David Greene for Episode 8 (Rich Man, Poor Man) (1976)
David Greene for Part 1 (Roots) (1977)
Marvin J. Chomsky for Holocaust (1978)
Jackie Cooper for "Pilot" (The White Shadow) (1979)
Roger Young for "Cop" (1980)
Robert Butler for "Hill Street Station"(1981)
Harry Harris for "To Soar and Never Falter" (1982)
Jeff Bleckner for "Life in the Minors" (1983)
Corey Allen for "Goodbye, Mr. Scripps" (1984)
Karen Arthur for "Heat" (1985)
Georg Stanford Brown for "Parting Shots" (1986)
Gregory Hoblit for "Pilot" (L.A. Law) (1987)
Mark Tinker for "Weigh In, Way Out" (1988)
Robert Altman for "The Boiler Room" (1989)
Thomas Carter for "Promises to Keep" / Scott Winant for "The Go-Between" (1990)
Thomas Carter for "In Confidence" (1991)
Eric Laneuville for "All God's Children" (1992)
Barry Levinson for "Gone for Goode" (1993)
Daniel Sackheim for "Tempest in a C-Cup" (1994)
Mimi Leder for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995)
Jeremy Kagan for "Leave of Absence" (1996)
Mark Tinker for "Where's Swaldo?" (1997)
Mark Tinker for "Pilot" (Brooklyn South) / Paris Barclay for "Brain Salad Surgery" (1998)
Paris Barclay for "Hearts and Souls" (1999)
Thomas Schlamme for "Pilot" (The West Wing) (2000)
Thomas Schlamme for "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part I" & "Part II" (2001)
Alan Ball for "Pilot" (Six Feet Under) (2002)
Christopher Misiano for "Twenty Five" (2003)
Walter Hill for "Deadwood" (2004)
J. J. Abrams for "Pilot" (Lost) (2005)
Jon Cassar for "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m." (2006)
Alan Taylor for "Kennedy and Heidi" (2007)
Greg Yaitanes for "House's Head" (2008)
Rod Holcomb for "And in the End..." (2009)
Steve Shill for "The Getaway" (2010)
Martin Scorsese for "Boardwalk Empire" (2011)
Tim Van Patten for "To the Lost" (2012)
David Fincher for "Chapter 1" (2013)
Cary Joji Fukunaga for "Who Goes There" (2014)
David Nutter for "Mother's Mercy" (2015)
Miguel Sapochnik for "Battle of the Bastards" (2016)

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special

George Cukor (1975)
Daniel Petrie (1976)
Daniel Petrie (1977)
David Lowell Rich (1978)
David Greene (1979)
Marvin J. Chomsky (1980)
James Goldstone (1981)
Marvin J. Chomsky (1982)
John Erman (1983)
Jeff Bleckner (1984)
Lamont Johnson (1985)
Joseph Sargent (1986)
Glenn A. Jordan (1987)
Lamont Johnson (1988)
Simon Wincer (1989)
Joseph Sargent (1990)
Brian Gibson (1991)
Joseph Sargent (1992)
James Steven Sadwith (1993)
John Frankenheimer (1994)
John Frankenheimer (1995)
John Frankenheimer (1996)
Andrei Konchalovsky (1997)
John Frankenheimer (1998)
Allan Arkush (1999)
Charles S. Dutton (2000)
Mike Nichols (2001)
David Frankel, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, Mikael Salomon, and Tony To (2002)
Steven Schachter (2003)
Mike Nichols (2004)
Stephen Hopkins (2005)
Tom Hooper (2006)
Philip Martin (2007)
Jay Roach (2008)
Dearbhla Walsh (2009)
Mick Jackson (2010)
Brian Percival (2011)
Jay Roach (2012)
Steven Soderbergh (2013)
Colin Bucksey (2014)
Lisa Cholodenko (2015)
Susanne Bier (2016)

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