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FILM DIRECTOR

Joseph Sargent

1925 - 2014

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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 action movie White Lightning starring Burt Reynolds, the biopic MacArthur starring Gregory Peck, and the horror anthology Nightmares. His most popular feature film was the subway thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Sargent has received more than 316,763 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Joseph Sargent is the 932nd most popular film director (down from 908th in 2019), the 6,118th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,008th in 2019) and the 233rd most popular American Film Director.

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  • 320k

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  • 47.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Joseph Sargent ranks 932 out of 1,581Before him are Kihachi Okamoto, Nick Park, Aleksandr Khanzhonkov, Yuri Ozerov, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, and Doug Liman. After him are Helmut Käutner, Joe May, Andre DeToth, Vittorio De Seta, Yevgeni Bauer, and Shawn Levy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Joseph Sargent ranks 299Before him are Justus Dahinden, Raymond Impanis, Hermano da Silva Ramos, Anne Jackson, Alberto Grimaldi, and Roberto Juarroz. After him are Fritz Laband, Amparo Rivelles, Zoot Sims, Charlie Byrd, Tony Benn, and Nanni Loy. Among people deceased in 2014, Joseph Sargent ranks 271Before him are Cheo Feliciano, Bobby Womack, Simón Díaz, Amiri Baraka, Marian Seldes, and György Lázár. After him are Frankie Knuckles, Atef Ebeid, Richard Hoggart, Milan Horvat, Ara Shiraz, and Bernard Agré.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Sargent ranks 6,118 out of 18,182Before him are Mamie Van Doren (1931), Jamie Gillis (1943), Doug Liman (1965), Stanley G. Weinbaum (1902), Bill Sharman (1926), and Wang Leehom (1976). After him are Stoya (1986), Barry Corbin (1940), Efraim Zuroff (1948), Herman Cain (1945), Thomas Hampson (1955), and Betty Holberton (1917).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Joseph Sargent ranks 233Before him are Ralph Nelson (1916), Cameron Crowe (1957), Gregg Toland (1904), Randal Kleiser (1946), James Foley (1953), and Doug Liman (1965). After him are Preston Sturges (1898), Jon Turteltaub (1963), Harry Beaumont (1888), Ben Sharpsteen (1895), Stephen Sommers (1962), and Caleb Deschanel (1944).

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