Joseph Sargent

Joseph Sargent

1925-07-22 Jersey City, New Jersey, USA 70 Credits

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. He has won four Emmy Awards. He is the father of anime dubbing voice actress Lia Sargent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Sargent, licens...

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Billionaire Boy

Billionaire Boy

2016

Producer

5.7
Producing

The story of Len, who made a billion dollars from inventing a new toilet roll, and his 12-year-old son Joe who appears to have everything he could wan...

Sweet Nothing in My Ear

Sweet Nothing in My Ear

2008

Director

6.3
Directing

Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant.

Sybil

Sybil

2007

Director

6.5
Directing

A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder.

Warm Springs

Warm Springs

2005

Director

6.8
Directing

Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.

Something the Lord Made

Something the Lord Made

2004

Director

7.7
Directing

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

Out of the Ashes

Out of the Ashes

2003

Director

6.3
Directing

The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.

Salem Witch Trials

Salem Witch Trials

2002

Director

6.2
Directing

Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that forever stands as one of the darkest chapters in Am...

Bojangles

Bojangles

2001

Director

8.0
Directing

The life of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African-American tap-dancing star of stage and screen. In 1916, Robinson was a successful vaudeville performer ...

For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story

For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story

2000

Director

6.2
Directing

In the early 1970s, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Andy Garcia) is torn between his own musical dreams and the dreams of his wife, Marianela (Mía Ma...

Vola sciusciù

Vola sciusciù

2000

Director

5.5
Directing

In war-torn Puglia, mute homeless but childlike in spirit fifty-year-old Sciusciù witnesses three Allied paratroopers landing one night and resolves t...

A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

1999

Director

5.0
Directing

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him wi...

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

1998

Director, Producer

6.5
Directing Producing

This is the story of Rodya Raskalnikov (Patrick Dempsey), an intellectual who is suspended from University and is living in poverty in 19th century Ru...

The Wall

The Wall

1998

Director

5.7
Directing

The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects th...

The Long Island Incident

The Long Island Incident

1998

Director

3.5
Directing

On December 7, 1993, a gunman opened fire in a crowded commuter train on Long Island. This fact-based story focuses on the events that swell around Ca...

Miss Evers' Boys

Miss Evers' Boys

1997

Director

6.3
Directing

The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure...

Mandela and de Klerk

Mandela and de Klerk

1997

Director

6.5
Directing

Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27...

My Antonia

My Antonia

1995

Director

7.3
Directing

After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.

Abraham

Abraham

1993

Director

7.0
Directing

Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mank...

Skylark

Skylark

1993

Director, Producer

7.2
Directing Producing

Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the chil...

Somebody's Daughter

Somebody's Daughter

1992

Producer, Director

1.0
Producing Directing

A stripper and her bodyguard become involved in a murder.

Miss Rose White

Miss Rose White

1992

Director

5.2
Directing

Two sisters, one a Polish concentration camp survivor, the other safely relocated to America with her father, are reunited in New York in 1947.

Never Forget

Never Forget

1991

Director

4.2
Directing

Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, s...

The Love She Sought

The Love She Sought

1990

Director

6.2
Directing

An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's existence when she has to start battling a new bisho...

Ivory Hunters

Ivory Hunters

1990

as Andy

4.2
Acting

An author discovers that his missing research assistant's disappearance may be related to illegal trade in ivory tusks. He's then asked by the local i...

Ivory Hunters

Ivory Hunters

1990

Director

4.2
Directing

An author discovers that his missing research assistant's disappearance may be related to illegal trade in ivory tusks. He's then asked by the local i...

Caroline?

Caroline?

1990

Director

5.6
Directing

Hallmark Hall of Fame presents the story of a mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter of a rich man tries to solve the problems of his u...

The Incident

The Incident

1990

Director

6.1
Directing

Small town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, defends a Nazi prisoner of war against murder charges. Set during World War II, Cobb has to contend with the difficult...

Day One

Day One

1989

Director

6.3
Directing

Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to bui...

The Karen Carpenter Story

The Karen Carpenter Story

1989

Director

7.2
Directing

Story of the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Karen Carpenter, who became a famous singer before battling anorexia and bulimia. This made-for-TV movie...

Jaws: The Revenge

Jaws: The Revenge

1987

Director, Producer

4.1
Directing Producing

After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Mi...

The Making of Jaws The Revenge

The Making of Jaws The Revenge

1987

as Self

6.0
Acting

A behind the scenes look on Jaws The Revenge with interviews from the cast and crew.

Passion Flower

Passion Flower

1987

Director

3.5
Directing

The movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business activities, romantic entanglements, and murder. Nicol Wil...

Of Pure Blood

Of Pure Blood

1986

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

A mother investigating her son's mysterious death finds much more than she bargained for. Casting director Alicia Browning (Remick) takes leave of her...

There Must Be a Pony

There Must Be a Pony

1986

Director

6.2
Directing

Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hospital, as well as trying to re-establish a relation...

Love Is Never Silent

Love Is Never Silent

1985

Director

6.0
Directing

A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend se...

Terrible Joe Moran

Terrible Joe Moran

1984

Director

Directing

A wheelchair-bound, former boxer deals with his long estranged granddaughter whom is seeking financial help for her writing career and helping her los...

Choices of the Heart

1983

Producer, Director

5.5
Producing Directing

Jeannie Donovan, a party-girl searching for that something missing in her life, finds it in El Salvador, hooking up with three nuns and a heartful of ...

Memorial Day

1983

Director

5.3
Directing

An attorney finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam.The reunion stirs up painful memories and ...

Nightmares

Nightmares

1983

Director

5.6
Directing

A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problem...

Tomorrow's Child

Tomorrow's Child

1982

Director

2.0
Directing

The wife of a research geneticist agrees to the experimental procedure of a 'test-tube baby' by having her fetus brought to full term in a glass jar i...

Freedom

Freedom

1981

Director

6.0
Directing

Talented musician and free spirit Libby chafes under the rule of her divorced journalist mother, so she seeks emancipation from her parents and hits t...

Coast to Coast

Coast to Coast

1980

Director

4.5
Directing

Madie is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York state mental hospital where her unwholesome husband had her committed to avoid the tria...

Playing for Time

Playing for Time

1980

Director

6.9
Directing

When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using th...

Amber Waves

Amber Waves

1980

Director

8.5
Directing

A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but b...

Goldengirl

Goldengirl

1979

Director

4.8
Directing

A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in t...

MacArthur

MacArthur

1977

Director

6.3
Directing

The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by ...

The Night That Panicked America

The Night That Panicked America

1975

Director

6.8
Directing

A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.

Friendly Persuasion

Friendly Persuasion

1975

Producer, Director

Producing Directing

During the Civil War, a Quaker couple risks their lives by helping runaway slaves.

Hustling

Hustling

1975

Director

6.0
Directing

Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry ...

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

1974

Director

7.5
Directing

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Sunshine

Sunshine

1973

Director

6.9
Directing

A young woman living in the woods with her husband, a struggling musician, and her young daughter, discovers she has terminal cancer. She begins to ta...

White Lightning

White Lightning

1973

Director

6.2
Directing

An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

The Man Who Died Twice

The Man Who Died Twice

1973

Director

Directing

A painter who surfaces after having disappeared for seven years finds himself contending with art forgeries and a crooked art dealer.

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

1973

Director

6.9
Directing

A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.

The Man

The Man

1972

Director

6.3
Directing

When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, S...

Man On A String

Man On A String

1972

Director

7.0
Directing

A government agent, out to destroy a crime ring, finds himself in the middle of a mob war.

Longstreet

Longstreet

1971

Director

9.3
Directing

The pilot for the 1971 - 1972 series of the same title. Mike Longstreet, an insurance investigator in New Orleans loses his sight and his wife in an e...

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

1971

Producer, Director

5.6
Producing Directing

Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban family. She must face their disapproval of her actions....

Tribes

Tribes

1970

Director

6.0
Directing

A Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie who has been dr...

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Colossus: The Forbin Project

1970

Director

6.9
Directing

The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes...

The Immortal

The Immortal

1969

Director

8.0
Directing

A professional race-car driver discovers that there are certain properties in his blood that will make him, basically, immortal. A dying multi-million...

The Sunshine Patriot

The Sunshine Patriot

1968

Director

6.0
Directing

An American spy tries desperately to get out from behind the Iron Curtain with some crucial microfilm with the Communist security police close on his ...

The Hell with Heroes

The Hell with Heroes

1968

Director

5.2
Directing

In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian...

The Spy in the Green Hat

The Spy in the Green Hat

1967

Director

6.5
Directing

"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from ...

Gallegher Goes West

Gallegher Goes West

1966

Director

Directing

In Part 1, Gallegher befriends a man on the stagecoach while heading west, only to discover he is a famous outlaw, the Sundown Kid. The sheriff is cro...

One Spy Too Many

One Spy Too Many

1966

Director

5.1
Directing

The men from U.N.C.L.E." are back! This time Robert Vaughn and David McCallum must stop the megalomaniac Alexander from committing the world's greates...

Street Fighter

Street Fighter

1959

Director

0.5
Directing

A delinquent teenage boy strives to become an upstanding citizen following the tragic death of the girl he loves.

Kathy O'

Kathy O'

1958

as Mike

10.0
Acting

A movie publicist is assigned to keep the public from learning that a beloved child star is an egotistical little brat.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

1957

5.4
Acting

The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which ...

From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity

1953

as Soldier (uncredited)

7.3
Acting

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.