Joseph Sargent
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Colossus - The Forbin Project (1970)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent
- Believably unsettling cold war parable concerning a huge electronic brain called Colossus, designed to control the American missile defense system.…
- Kojak (TV Series) (1973-1978)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Telly Savalas, Ned Beatty
- Popular 70s cop show that turned Telly Savalas's funky, lollipop sucking, glow–domed police lieutenant into a cultural icon. Highly quotable,…
- White Lightning (1973)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty…
- Low–budget b–movie was a runaway hit, and the movie that made Burt Reynolds a star. Good old boys, souped–up cars, moonshine and…
- Kojak Collection, The (The Marcus-Nelson Murders, The Belarus File, The Price of Justice) (1973-1987)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent, Robert Markowitz, Alan Metzger
Feat. Telly Savalas, Marjoe Gortner, Jose Ferrer…
- Telly Savalas stars as the tough but witty sleuth who became a small screen icon in the 1970's. This set features the three feature–length TV…
- Taking of Pelham 123, The (1974)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Robert Shaw, Walter Matthau, Martin Balsam…
- Superlative '70s heist movie – four gunmen hi–jack a train and threaten to kill one passenger for every minute the ransom is late. Taut,…
- MacArthur (1977)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Gregory Peck
- A well–mounted political biography of the WW2 General during the Pacific wars.
- Karen Carpenter Story, The (1989)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Cynthia Gibb, Stephanie Griffin, Mitchell Anderson
- Well–made account of the rise and fall of MOR pop phenomenon, The Carpenters, up until Karen's tragic death from Anorexia–Nervosa.
- Incident, The / Incident In A Small Town (1990-1994)
- Dir. Delbert Mann, Joseph Sargent
Feat. Walter Matthau, Harry Morgan
- Enjoyable made for television murder mystery set during the Second World War sees a characteristically gruff Matthau play Harmon Cobb, a small town…
- Mandela and De Klerk (1997)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine
- The political backdrop to Nelson Madela's release in 1991 from a South African prison is solidly dramatised in this telemovie. Stars Sidney Poitier…
- Something The Lord Made (2004)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Alan Rickman, Mos Def, Mary Stuart Masterson…
- Superior telemovie observes the pioneering medical teamship in the 1940s between a gifted black lab technician (Mos Def) and a surgeon (Rickman), who…