- 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 Jaws: The Revenge (1987), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) and Colossus: The Forbin Project (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 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (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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