Joseph Sargent, a prolific director whose best-known film was 1974’s “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” and who won several Emmy Awards for directing TV movies, some of which explored sensitive racial topics, died Dec. 22 at his home in Malibu, Calif. He was 89. The cause was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, his wife, Carolyn Nelson Sargent, said. Mr. Sargent made about 70 films, mostly for television. Some of his projects, like the 1997 HBO film “Miss Evers’ Boys,” a story about the infamous government study of African American syphilis patients in Tuskegee, Ala., had strong messages that sometimes forced Mr. Sargent to tamp down his own strong opinions in the course of filming. Read more http://www.washingtonpost.com/enter...f42724-8c58-11e4-a085-34e9b9f09a58_story.html
