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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 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New York's Greatest Starring Roles )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Joseph Sargent Biography (1925-) )〕 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," and he was nominated for Worst Director in the 1987 Golden Raspberry Awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Razzies.com )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=DeafWest.org )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Emmy-Winning Director Joseph Sargent Dies at 89 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Sargent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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