Biography
One of the earliest alumni of New York's New School of Social Research, director Joseph Sargent spent his first professional decade in television. His first theatrical "feature" was
One Spy Too Many (1966), an expansion of one of his Man From U.N.C.L.E. episodes. In both his small-screen work and his large-screen output, Sargent's work was distinguished by speed, efficiency, and equitable treatment of talented ensemble casts. Joseph Sargent's best features include
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) and
MacArthur (1977); his best TV films include
Tribes (1970),
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971), and the multipart
Lonesome Dove sequel
Streets of Laredo (1995). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide