- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGiuseppe Daniele Sorgente
- Nickname
- Joe
- Joseph Sargent was born on July 22, 1925 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Les Dents de la mer 4 : La Revanche (1987), Les Pirates du métro (1974) and Le cerveau d'acier (1970). He was married to Carolyn Nelson and Mary Carver. He died on December 22, 2014 in Malibu, California, USA.
- SpousesCarolyn Nelson(November 22, 1970 - December 22, 2014) (his death)Mary Carver(1952 - November 1968) (divorced, 2 children)
- Children
- Began making movies at age 11 when an uncle gave him an 8mm camera.
- With his wife Carolyn, he helped co-found Deaf Theatre West. He then went on to found the Free Arts Clinic For Abused Children.
- His father was an ice-wagon driver, and his mother was a seamstress.
- Acted in several Broadway shows in the 1950s.
- Worked during his last decade as the senior filmmaker-in-residence for the directing program at the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles and as the first professor of a masters program in film directing at Pepperdine University in Malibu.
- The people content is what turns me on. I'm not turned on by cops, chases and too much melodrama. But I am by relationship stories.
- [about the real way to stop a runaway train, as opposed to what was shown in Les Pirates du métro (1974)] What [Martin Balsam] does in the film, when he sets up all that paraphernalia to defeat the Dead Man's Switch, that's all Mickey Mouse. That's not the way you'd do it. And I still don't know to this day how it's done.
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