John Sturges

Gender: Male
Born: 3rd January 1910
Died: 18th August 1992
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: A Girl Named Tamiko, Act of Violence, Alias Mr. Twilight, Backlash, Bad Day at Black Rock, Best Man Wins, By Love Possessed, Escape from Fort Bravo, Fast Company, For the Love of Rusty, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Hour of the Gun, Ice Station Zebra, It's a Big Country, Jeopardy, Joe Kidd, Keeper of the Bees, Kind Lady, Last Train from Gun Hill, Marooned, McQ, Mystery Street, Never So Few, Right Cross, Sergeants Three, Shadowed, The Capture, The Eagle Has Landed, The Eagle Has Landed, The Girl in White, The Great Escape, The Hallelujah Trail, The Law and Jake Wade, The Magnificent Seven, The Magnificent Yankee, The Man Who Dared, The Old Man and the Sea, The People Against O'Hara, The Satan Bug, The Scarlet Coat, The Sign of the Ram, The Walking Hills, Thunderbolt!, Underwater!, Valdez Horses

John Eliot Sturges (January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director. His movies include Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963) and Ice Station Zebra (1968).

He started his career in Hollywood as an editor in 1932. During World War II, he directed documentaries and training films for the US Army Air Corps. Sturges's mainstream directorial career began in 1946 with The Man Who Dared, the first of many B-movies. He made imaginative use of the widescreen CinemaScope format by placing Spencer Tracy alone against a vast desert panorama in the suspense film Bad Day at Black Rock for which he received a Best Director Oscar nomination in 1955. Over the course of his career, Sturges developed a reputation for elevated character-based drama within the confines of genre filmmaking. He was awarded the Golden Boot Award in 1992 for his lifetime contribution to Westerns.

He once met with Akira Kurosawa, who told him that he loved The Magnificent Seven (which was a remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai) and presented him with a samurai sword. Sturges considered this the proudest moment of his

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