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Born | John Eliot Sturges January 3, 1910 Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | August 18, 1992 | (aged 82)
Occupation | Film director |
John Eliot Sturges (/ˈstɜːrdʒɪs/; January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director. His films 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). In 2013 and 2018, respectively, The Magnificent Seven and Bad Day at Black Rock were selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[1] Despite sharing the same surname and homestate, he was not known to be related to Preston Sturges.
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