导演约瑟夫·萨金特2014年因肺病去世,享年89岁。他曾4获艾美奖,是美国电视史上最伟大的导演之一。执导过《荒野大镖客》《星际迷航:原初》《秘密特工》(The Man from U.N.C.L.E)等著名电视剧,电影包括1974年的《骑劫地下铁》,2009年丹泽尔·华盛顿的《地铁惊魂》就是翻拍该片。
生于纽约市,成长于明尼阿波利斯。1957年戏剧本科毕业后进入电影界。1959年以《年轻的费城人》获奥斯卡最佳男配角提名。70年代末期以后主要活跃在电视界。其主要影片有《豪勇七蛟龙》、《雷玛根桥之战》、《火烧摩天楼》、《暗杀目标》、《三角部队》等。
年轻时的珍妮李身材窈窕,甜美动人,仅凭着这两个条件,她在性感女星诺玛谢拉的带领下,于1947年和米高梅签下了一纸合约。全无表演经验的珍妮李,在大学主修音乐,她懵懵懂懂地进了好莱坞,在40年代後期饰演的都是一些青春洋溢的少女角色,还颇受到欢迎。51年与汤尼寇蒂斯结婚以后,开始演一些...
Discovered on Broadway by director Howard Hawks, La Rue was originally brought to Hollywood to play a gangster in Scarface (1932). He lost that role to George Raft, and similarly was replaced by Humphrey Bogart in the film version of The Petrified Forest (1936). Eventually, he became well-known to movie-goers as a mean, sexy gangster type in sadistic roles like Miriam Hopkins' abductor in The Story of Temple Drake (1933). Film audiences, who loved to loathe him on-screen, were occasionally surprised by his being cast against type in such movies as A Farewell to Arms (1932). His final film was in the low-budget film Paesano: A Voice in the Night (1977).