Joseph Sargent
American film director (1925–2014)
0.39body-of-work score · ranked #1537 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- July 22, 1925 · Jersey City
- Died
- December 22, 2014 · Malibu
- Nationality
- United States
- Work
- film director, television director, film producer, actor
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
1974 · United States · crime, action, thriller
NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies
0.282 citations - 20.111 citation
Complete filmography
All 58 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1966One Spy Too Many
- 1967The Spy in the Green Hat
- 1968The Hell with Heroes
- 1969Colossus: The Forbin Project
- 1970Tribes
- 1971Longstreet
- 1971Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
- 1972The Man
- 1973Sunshine
- 1973The Marcus-Nelson Murders
- 1973White Lightning
- 1974The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
- 1975Friendly Persuasion
- 1975Hustling
- 1975The Night That Panicked America
- 1977MacArthur
- 1979Goldengirl
- 1980Amber Waves
- 1980Coast to Coast
- 1980Playing for Time
- 1981Tomorrow's Child
- 1983Choices of the Heart
- 1983Memorial Day
- 1983Nightmares
- 1984Terrible Joe Moran
- 1985Love Is Never Silent
- 1986Of Pure Blood
- 1986There Must Be a Pony
- 1987Jaws: The Revenge
- 1989Day One
- 1989The Karen Carpenter Story
- 1990Caroline?
- 1990Ivory Hunters
- 1990The Incident
- 1990The Love She Sought
- 1991Never Forget
- 1992Miss Rose White
- 1992Somebody's Daughter
- 1993Abraham
- 1993Skylark
- 1994World War II: When Lions Roared
- 1995My Antonia
- 1995Streets of Laredo
- 1997Mandela and de Klerk
- 1997Miss Evers' Boys
- 1998Crime and Punishment
- 1998The Long Island Incident
- 1998The Wall
- 1999A Lesson Before Dying
- 2000For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
- 2000The Savior of San Nicola
- 2001Bojangles
- 2003Out of the Ashes
- 2004Something the Lord Made
- 2005Warm Springs
- 2007Sybil
- 2008Sweet Nothing in My Ear
- —Salem Witch Trials