
John Sturges
Highest Rated: 97% Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Lowest Rated: 33% The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
Birthday: Jan 3, 1910
Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Reliable Hollywood craftsman who established his reputation in the mid-1950s with a series of intense, morally charged features such as "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1954) and "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (1957), before moving on to bigger--though not especially better--productions.
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Filmography
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No Score Yet | 36% | Chino | Director | - | 1977 |
67% | 67% | The Eagle Has Landed | Director | - | 1976 |
44% | 57% | McQ | Director | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | 29% | Chino | Director | - | 1973 |
80% | 54% | Joe Kidd | Director | - | 1972 |
86% | 45% | Marooned | Director | - | 1969 |
47% | 58% | Ice Station Zebra | Director | - | 1968 |
88% | 50% | Hour of the Gun |
Director, Producer |
- | 1967 |
50% | 43% | The Satan Bug |
Director, Producer |
- | 1965 |
33% | 65% | The Hallelujah Trail | Director | - | 1965 |
94% | 95% | The Great Escape |
Director, Producer |
- | 1963 |
No Score Yet | 32% | Sergeants 3 | Director | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Girl Named Tamiko | Director | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | 38% | By Love Possessed | Director | - | 1961 |
89% | 87% | The Magnificent Seven |
Director, Producer |
- | 1960 |
91% | 81% | Last Train From Gun Hill | Director | - | 1959 |
40% | 33% | Never So Few | Director | - | 1959 |
80% | 67% | The Old Man and the Sea | Director | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | 59% | The Law and Jake Wade | Director | - | 1958 |
85% | 69% | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Director | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 39% | Backlash | Director | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 38% | The Scarlet Coat | Director | - | 1955 |
97% | 87% | Bad Day at Black Rock | Director | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 14% | Underwater! | Director | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 55% | Escape From Fort Bravo | Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Jeopardy | Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fast Company | Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Girl in White | Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 10% | It's a Big Country | Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 33% | The People Against O'Hara | Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 63% | Kind Lady | Director | - | 1951 |
83% | 53% | The Magnificent Yankee | Director | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | 68% | Mystery Street | Director | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | 11% | The Capture | Director | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | 11% | Right Cross | Director | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Walking Hills | Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Best Man Wins | Director | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | 25% | The Sign of the Ram | Director | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Keeper of the Bees | Director | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alias Mr. Twilight | Director | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | 45% | Thunderbolt | Director | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadowed | Director | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Who Dared | Director | - | 1944 |
92% | 74% | Gunga Din | Film Editing | - | 1939 |