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Date of Birth

3 January 1910, Oak Park, Illinois, USA

Date of Death

18 August 1992, San Luis Obispo, California, USA (heart attack and emphysema)

Birth Name

John Eliot Sturges

Spouse

Dorothy Lynn Brooks

(5 January 1945 - ?) (divorced)

Trivia

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945." Pages 1079-1085. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

When he met with Akira Kurosawa, Kurosawa told Sturges that he loved The Magnificent Seven. Sturges always maintained that this was the single proudest moment of his life.

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