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JOHN STURGES

John Sturges was an American film director and film producer. He was born in 1911 at Oak Park, Illinois and died in 1992 of a heart attack and emphysema. Among the classic films he directed were the 1960 'The Magnificent Seven', the 1963 'The Great Escape', the 1965 'The Satan Bug', the 1968 'Ice Station Zebra' and the 1976 'The Eagle Has Landed'.
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