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Joseph Sargent
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Joseph Sargent

American film director (1925-2014)
July 22, 1925 (December 22, 2014)
U.S. 2008. Drama by Joseph Sargent with Jeff Daniels, Marlee Matlin, Noah Valencia. A father excited about a new type of surgery that would restore his son's hearing is disappointed that he does not have the support of his deaf wife.
U.S. 2008. Psychological drama by Joseph Sargent with Jessica Lange, Tammy Blanchard, Ron White. A psychiatrist works to cure a young woman suffering from a form of schizophrenia that causes her to take on different personalities.
Runtime: 89 min.
U.S. 2005. Biography by Joseph Sargent with Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, Kathy Bates. The life of Franklin D. Roosevelt during the period leading up to his election as President of the United States.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 2004. Biography by Joseph Sargent with Alan Rickman, Mos Def, Mary Stuart Masterson. The story of two pioneers of heart surgery, Alfred Blalock and his African-American assistant Vivien Thomas.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 2002. History by Joseph Sargent with Kirstie Alley, Henry Czerny, Gloria Reuben. In 1691, a Puritan village in Massachusetts is the scene of a trial in which several women are accused of witchcraft.
Runtime: 240 min.
U.S. 2001. Biography by Joseph Sargent with Gregory Hines, Peter Riegert, Kimberly Elise. The career of tap dancer Bill ""Bojangles"" Robinson who started in vaudeville theatre during the 1910s before going on to work in Hollywood.
U.S. 2000. Biography by Joseph Sargent with Andy Garcia, Mia Maestro, Gloria Estefan. The life and career of the Cuban trumpet player Arturo Sandoval.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1999. Court drama by Joseph Sargent with Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer. In Louisiana in the 1940s, a schoolteacher agrees to teach a young Black man who has been unjustly sentenced to death.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 1998. Drama by Joseph Sargent with Patrick Dempsey, Julie Delpy, Ben Kingsley. A cynical college student who committed a double murder thinks he's safe from the law until a police officer sets out to get him to confess to his crime.
U.S. 1998. Social drama by Joseph Sargent with Laurie Metcalf, Mackenzie Astin, Peter MacNeill. A woman, whose husband and son were victims of a crazed gunman, goes into politics to fight for gun control.
Runtime: 96 min.
Runtime: 114 min.
Runtime: 118 min.
U.S. 1995. Western by Joseph Sargent with James Garner, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard.
All. 1994. Biblical drama by Joseph Sargent with Richard Harris, Barbara Hershey, Maximilian Schell.
Runtime: 175 min.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1994. History by Joseph Sargent with Bob Hoskins, John Lithgow, Michael Caine.
Runtime: 194 min.
U.S. 1993. Social drama by Joseph Sargent with Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall. In 1912, a Kansas farmer decides to face the drought while his wife and children move to Maine.
U.S. 1992. Crime drama by Joseph Sargent with Nicollette Sheridan, Nick Mancuso, Boyd Kesner. After the murder of a friend, a stripper is protected by a double agent with whom she ends up falling in love.
U.S. 1991. Psychological drama by Joseph Sargent with Kyra Sedgwick, Maximilian Schell, Amanda Plummer. In 1947, a young Jewish woman working in the New York fashion industry finds her life turned upside down by the arrival of her sister who survived the Holocaust.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1991. Court drama by Joseph Sargent with Leonard Nimoy, Dabney Coleman, Blythe Danner. An anti-Semitic group challenges a Jew to prove in court the veracity of the Nazis
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1990. Adventures by Joseph Sargent with John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, James Earl Jones. While investigating the murder of a photographer, an American writer uncovers ivory trafficking in Kenya.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1990. Drama by Joseph Sargent with Angela Lansbury, Denholm Elliott, Cynthia Nixon. A retired schoolteacher in Ireland discovers the true identity of the man with whom she has been corresponding for years.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1990. Crime drama by Joseph Sargent with Walter Matthau, Peter Firth, William Schallert. A lawyer discovers a dark secret while investigating his client, a German prisoner of war accused of murdering a doctor.
U.S. 1990. Drama by Joseph Sargent with Stephanie Zimbalist, Pamela Reed, George Grizzard. A young woman thought to have died in a plane crash fifteen years earlier reappears just as an important inheritance is about to be divided.
U.S. 1989. Biography by Joseph Sargent with Cynthia Gibb, Mitchell Anderson, Peter Michael Goetz. Portrayal of the career of singer Karen Carpenter, who died of anorexia.
U.S. 1989. History by Joseph Sargent with Brian Dennehy, David Strathairn, Michael Tucker. A portrayal of the events surrounding the making of the first atomic bomb.
Runtime: 141 min.
U.S. 1987. Horror by Joseph Sargent with Lorraine Gary, Michael Caine, Lance Guest. A widow whose son was killed by a shark decides to confront one of these sea monsters alone, convinced that it holds a personal grudge against her family.
Runtime: 91 min.
U.S. 1986. Psychological drama by Joseph Sargent with Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Wagner, Chad Lowe. A teenager and his mother, a Hollywood star whose career is on the rocks, find their lives changed by the arrival of a businessperson .
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1986. Adventures by Joseph Sargent with Bruce Boxleitner, Barbara Hershey, Nicol Williamson. A Hong Kong-based banker has a dangerous affair with the unhappily married daughter of a wealthy drug dealer.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1986. Crime drama by Joseph Sargent with Lee Remick, Patrick McGoohan, Gottfried John. An American born in Germany travels to her home country to investigate the circumstances of her son's death.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1985. Psychological drama by Joseph Sargent with Mare Winningham, Frederic Lehne, Phyllis Frelich. A young girl, whose parents are deaf, feels guilty when she has to leave them to get married.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1984. Psychological drama by Joseph Sargent with James Cagney, Ellen Barkin, Art Carney. A young woman seeks to defraud her grandfather, a paralyzed former boxer.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1983. Psychological drama by Joseph Sargent with Mike Farrell, Shelley Fabares, Bonnie Bedelia. A lawyer is tormented by wartime memories following a reunion with former army buddies.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1983. Biography by Joseph Sargent with Melissa Gilbert, Helen Hunt, Pamela Bellwood. The story of Jean Donovan, a young secular missionary who was killed alongside three nuns in El Salvador.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1983. Sketches by Joseph Sargent with Cristina Raines, Emilio Estevez, Lance Henriksen. Four stories featuring a woman, a teenager, a priest and a giant rodent.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 1982. Science-fiction by Joseph Sargent with Stephanie Zimbalist, William Atherton, Ed Flanders. A young couple agrees to participate in a laboratory experiment to conceive a child.
U.S. 1981. Historic chronicle by Joseph Sargent, Charles S. Dubin with Pierce Brosnan, Kate Mulgrew, Linda Purl. In the middle of the nineteenth century, a young Irish farmer with a rebellious spirit seeks his fortune in America.
Runtime: 273 min.
U.S. 1981. Psychological drama by Joseph Sargent with Mare Winningham, Jennifer Warren, Tony Bill.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1980. Comedy by Joseph Sargent with Dyan Cannon, Robert Blake, Quinn Redeker.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1979. Sports drama by Joseph Sargent with Susan Anton, James Coburn, Curd Jurgens.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1977. Biography by Joseph Sargent with Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders, Dan O'Herlihy. General MacArthur's military career from the Japanese attack on the Philippines in 1942 to the Korean War.
Runtime: 128 min.
U.S. 1975. Drama by Joseph Sargent with Paul Shenar, Vic Morrow, Eileen Brennan. In 1938, a fictitious radio report about an invasion of the Earth by Martians is taken seriously by listeners.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1975. Dramatic comedy by Joseph Sargent with Richard Kiley, Shirley Knight, Clifton James. Before the Civil War, Quakers help fugitive black slaves escape their pursuers.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1975. Social drama by Joseph Sargent with Lee Remick, Monte Markham, Jill Clayburgh. A journalist investigates the practice of prostitution in New York.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1974. Crime drama by Joseph Sargent with Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam. Four men seize a New York City subway train and demand one million dollars in exchange for the release of the passengers taken hostage.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1973. Crime drama by Joseph Sargent with Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty. To secure his release, a prisoner agrees to help government agents prove a sheriff's collusion with bootleggers.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1973. Psychological drama by Joseph Sargent with Cristina Raines, Cliff DeYoung, Brenda Vaccaro. A young mother of nineteen learns that she has cancer.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1973. Crime drama by Joseph Sargent with Telly Savalas, Marjoe Gortner, Jose Ferrer. A young Black man is wrongly accused of murdering two young girls.
Runtime: 137 min.
U.S. 1972. Crime drama by Joseph Sargent with Jack Warden, Christopher Stone, Diane Baker. A middle-aged detective and his young partner investigate a murder and the theft of a million dollars.
Runtime: 60 min.
U.S. 1972. Crime drama by Joseph Sargent with Christopher George, Joel Grey, Kitty Winn. A police officer pretends he was dismissed in order to infiltrate a gang.
Runtime: 73 min.
U.S. 1971. Drama by Joseph Sargent with Darren McGavin, Earl Holliman, Jan-Michael Vincent. A young recruit decides to rebel against brutal training methods.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1971. Crime drama by Joseph Sargent with James Franciscus, Martine Beswick, Bradford Dillman. The rehabilitation problems of an insurance investigator who has been blinded by a bombing.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1971. Social drama by Joseph Sargent with James Earl Jones, William Windom, Martin Balsam. The political troubles of a Black man who became president of the United States.
U.S. 1971. Psychological drama by Joseph Sargent with Sally Field, Jackie Cooper, Eleanor Parker. The homecoming of a teenage girl who ran away from home to live as a hippie.
Runtime: 74 min.
U.S. 1970. Crime drama by Joseph Sargent with Stuart Whitman, Brigitte Fossey, Bernard Lee. A missing painter reappears after seven years and finds himself implicated in a scam.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1969. Adventures by Joseph Sargent with Christopher George, Carol Lynley, Barry Sullivan. A man whose blood possesses extraordinary life-giving powers is hunted by the men of a sick millionaire.
Runtime: 73 min.
U.S. 1969. Science-fiction by Joseph Sargent with Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent. A sophisticated electronic brain takes control of the destiny of humanity.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1968. Spy drama by Joseph Sargent with Cliff Robertson, Luther Adler, Dina Merrill. A secret agent borrows the identity of a colleague to operate in a communist country.
U.S. 1968. Adventures by Joseph Sargent with Rod Taylor, Harry Guardino, Claudia Cardinale. A former wartime pilot smuggles contraband.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1966. Spy drama by Joseph Sargent with Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Rip Torn. A criminal steals from the Americans a gas whose effect is to destroy all resistance.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1966. Comedy by Joseph Sargent with Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Jack Palance. Two secret agents are tasked with stopping a criminal organization from hijacking the Gulf Stream.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1962. Social drama by Joseph Sargent with Vic Savage, Ann Atmar, Ahmed Bey.
Runtime: 70 min.

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