John Sturges

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John Eliot Sturges (3 January 1911 – 18 August 1992) was an American film director. He was known as "The dean of big-budget action movies made during the 1950s and 1960s". Sturges' movies include The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Ice Station Zebra and Marooned.

He started in Hollywood in 1932 as an editor. In World War II he started directing documentaries and training films for the US Army Air Corps. Sturges' mainstream directorial career began in 1946 with The Man Who Dared the first of many grade-B movies. He then use widescreen CinemaScope format imaginatively by placing Spencer Tracy all alone against a vast desert panorama in the suspense film Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, for which he received a Best Director Oscar nomination).

Filmography

The Man Who Dared (1946)
Shadowed (1946)
Alias Mr. Twilight (1946)
For the Love of Rusty (1947)
Keeper of the Bees (1947)
Thunderbolt (1947 movie)|Thunderbolt]] (1947)
The Sign of the Ram (1948)
Best Man Wins (1948)
The Walking Hills (1949)
The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
The Capture (1950)
Mystery Street (1950)
Right Cross (1950)
Kind Lady (1951)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
It's a Big Country (1951)
The Girl in White (1952)
Jeopardy (1953)
Fast Company (1953)
Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Underwater! (1955)
The Scarlet Coat (1955)
Backlash (1956)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Saddle the Wind (1958) (uncredited)
The Law and Jake Wade (1958)
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
Never So Few (1959)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
By Love Possessed (1961)
Sergeants 3 (1962)
A Girl Named Tamiko (1963)
The Great Escape (1963)
The Satan Bug (1965)
The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
Hour of the Gun (1967)
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Marooned (1969)
Joe Kidd (1972)
Chino (1973)
McQ (1974)
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

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