John Eliot Sturges (January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director and producer.
After working as a film editor and directing documentaries during World War II, he made his feature directorial debut in 1946 with The Man Who Dared, and subsequently began directing films for Columbia Pictures, mainly B-Movies and Film Noir.
He is best known, however, for his work in the Western and war movie genres, and during The '50s and The '60s directed some of the most successful and iconic examples of both.
He considered the high point of his professional career to have been when Akira Kurosawa expressed his approval and love for The Magnificent Seven, Sturges' 1960 remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.
Although he and fellow director Preston Sturges shared the same surname (and both of them even came from the Chicago area), they were unrelated.
Works with pages on TV Tropes:
- Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
- The Scarlet Coat (1955)
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
- The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
- Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
- Never So Few (1959)
- The Magnificent Seven (1960)
- The Great Escape (1963)
- The Satan Bug (1965)
- The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
- Ice Station Zebra (1968)
- Marooned (1969)
- Joe Kidd (1972)
- The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
