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James Fargo is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Unit Production Manager and First Assistant Director American born on 14 august 1938 at Republic (USA)

James Fargo

James Fargo
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Nationality USA
Birth 14 august 1938 (85 years) at Republic (USA)

James Fargo (born August 14, 1938 in Republic, Washington) is an American film director. He directed numerous films from 1976 to 1998. After serving as assistant director on many films starring Clint Eastwood, he was then given the chance to direct the third Dirty Harry film, The Enforcer, in 1976. Later he also directed Eastwood in 1978's Every Which Way but Loose. It would be the final film in working with Eastwood. Fargo has also directed films such as Caravans, A Game for Vultures, Voyage of the Rock Aliens, as well as two Chuck Norris films.

Fargo has also directed television shows, such as The A-Team, Hunter, Scarecrow and Mrs. King and Beverly Hills 90210.

Best films

Jaws (1975)
(Unit Production Manager)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
(Director)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
(Director)
Joe Kidd (1972)
(Assistant Director)

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Filmography of James Fargo (23 films)

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Actor

Riding the Edge, 1h40
Directed by James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Catherine Mary Stewart, Brooke Bundy, James Fargo, Lyman Ward, Peter Haskell, Mike Sarne
Roles Tarek
Rating44% 2.204542.204542.204542.204542.20454
Dans un centre de recherches américain en Afrique du nord, le docteur John Harman vient de mettre au point un système de propulsion de satellites a l’énergie solaire. Mais un commando a la solde de Kroll, un mercenaire vendu a l'Est, le kidnappe avec son équipe.

Director

Second Chances, 1h47
Directed by James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Tom Amandes, Isabel Glasser, Charles Shaughnessy, Madeline Zima, Terry Moore, Stuart Whitman
Rating65% 3.256323.256323.256323.256323.25632
After a car accident kills her dad and damages her leg a 10-year-old girl named Sunny Matthews moves with her over protective mother Kathleen Matthews next door to a horse ranch run by former rodeo star Ben Taylor when they're forced to sell their house. While adjusting to her new life Sunny develops a fondness for Ben and Ginger a beautiful barrel racing American Quarter Horse. Kathleen doesn't approve of Ben and Ginger, but she eventually trusts them.
Riding the Edge, 1h40
Directed by James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Catherine Mary Stewart, Brooke Bundy, James Fargo, Lyman Ward, Peter Haskell, Mike Sarne
Rating44% 2.204542.204542.204542.204542.20454
Dans un centre de recherches américain en Afrique du nord, le docteur John Harman vient de mettre au point un système de propulsion de satellites a l’énergie solaire. Mais un commando a la solde de Kroll, un mercenaire vendu a l'Est, le kidnappe avec son équipe.
Voyage of the Rock Aliens, 1h37
Directed by James Fargo, Bob Giraldi
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Musical theatre, Horror, Musical, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Comedy science fiction films, Musical films, Comedy horror films
Actors Pia Zadora, Craig Sheffer, Tom Nolan, Ruth Gordon, Michael Berryman, Alison LaPlaca
Rating52% 2.602042.602042.602042.602042.60204
A guitar-shaped spaceship and Robot 1359 (voiced by Peter Cullen), search the universe for the source of rock and roll music. He finds it on Earth. 1359 wakes the crew to visit the planet. A rocket telephone booth lands in the town of Speelburgh and ABCD (pronounced "Absid") (Tom Nolan) with his group of aliens exit. The humanoid aliens force robot 1359 to take the form of a fire hydrant. Only the Sheriff (Ruth Gordon) witnesses their landing, and she becomes obsessed with alien invaders.
Forced Vengeance, 1h30
Directed by James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Adventure, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Chuck Norris, Mary Louise Weller, David Opatoshu, Robert Lee Minor, Howard Caine, Robert Emhardt
Rating55% 2.752232.752232.752232.752232.75223
Josh Randall is the head of security for the Lucky Dragon casino in Hong Kong. As the movie begins, Randall is visiting Los Angeles to collect $114,000 owed by a rich gambler to his employer, David Pascal (Liu). After a few threats and some fighting he collects the debt. He dozes during a jet flight back to Hong Kong and the viewer sees in flash back how he got in a fight in the Casino when he was on leave from the US Army and ended up befriending David’s father, Sam (Opatoshu).
Game for Vultures, 1h53
Directed by James Fargo
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Films set in Africa, Politique, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Richard Harris, Richard Roundtree, Denholm Elliott, Joan Collins, Ray Milland, Sven-Bertil Taube
Rating44% 2.22632.22632.22632.22632.2263
It is the late 1970s, and smuggler David Swansey (Richard Harris) specialises in importing goods to war-torn Rhodesia, defying international sanctions imposed on the doomed nation. Swansey is eventually contracted by the Ian Smith administration to arrange an illicit purchase of American-made Iroquois helicopters for counter-insurgency operations against black African nationalists. However, word of his plan soon reaches the latter, who apply strong political pressure to kill the deal in its cradle – the aircraft shipment in question is impounded upon reaching neighbouring South-West Africa.
Every Which Way but Loose, 1h54
Directed by James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Transport films, Motocyclette, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Films about apes, Musical films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Ruth Gordon, Beverly D'Angelo, John Quade
Rating62% 3.148683.148683.148683.148683.14868
Philo Beddoe is a truck driver living in the San Fernando Valley. He lives in a small house, with an orangutan named Clyde, behind that of his friend, Orville Boggs, and his mother. Philo makes money on the side as a bare-knuckle fighter; he is often compared to a legendary fighter named Tank Murdock.
Caravans
Caravans (1978)
, 2h7
Directed by James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire
Actors Anthony Quinn, Michael Sarrazin, Christopher Lee, Jennifer O'Neill, Joseph Cotten, Behrouz Vossoughi
Rating59% 2.95092.95092.95092.95092.9509
The story is set in the fictional Middle Eastern country of Zadestan in 1948. Mark Miller is stationed at the U.S. Embassy in the fictional city of Kashkhan and is assigned to investigate the disappearance of and locate a young woman, Ellen Jasper, the daughter of a United States Senator, who vanished after her marriage to Colonel Nazrullah several months previously. Nazrullah is desperate to find her and becomes defensive when Miller asks about her. By law, Ellen has given up her rights as an American by becoming his wife. Miller traces her to a band of nomads who are running illegal guns. She doesn't want to leave, being estranged from both her parents and her husband. Miller doesn't want to return without proof she's alive and OK, which she refuses to give. Nazrullah lures the gun-runners into a trap. He separates Miller from the nomads and asks his wife to return to him but she refuses. Ellen at last gives Miller a note for her family. As the nomads leave, Nazrullah orders his troops to fire on them and Ellen is killed trying to rescue a child. A heart-broken Nazrullah carries away the body of his dead wife.
The Enforcer, 1h33
Directed by James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about terrorism, Se déroulant à Alcatraz
Actors Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman, Brian Blessed, Tyne Daly, DeVeren Bookwalter
Rating67% 3.350693.350693.350693.350693.35069
In Marin County, two gas company men are lured by a scantily-clad woman to a remote spot in Mill Valley and killed by Bobby Maxwell (DeVeren Bookwalter). Maxwell's gang, the People's Revolutionary Strike Force (PRSF), plans to use the gas men's uniforms and van as part of an ambitious series of crimes that will make them rich.
The Outlaw Josey Wales, 2h15
Directed by Clint Eastwood, James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, John Vernon, Bill McKinney, John Russell
Rating77% 3.897143.897143.897143.897143.89714
Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood), a Missouri farmer, is driven to revenge by the murder of his wife and young son by a band of pro-Union Jayhawker militants. The Union murderers were from Senator James H. Lane's Kansas Brigade, which included Captain Terrill.
The Eiger Sanction, 2h3
Directed by Clint Eastwood, James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Sports films, Alpinisme
Actors Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jack Cassidy, Vonetta McGee, Thayer David, Gregory Walcott
Rating63% 3.197473.197473.197473.197473.19747
College art history professor Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) is a retired government assassin who performed "sanctions", a euphemism for officially approved killings. He also has a reputation as one of the world's top mountaineers.
The Sugarland Express, 1h48
Directed by Steven Spielberg, James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Themes Psychologie, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Aviation films, Road movies, Dans un avion, Chase films, Films about hijackings
Actors Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, William Atherton, Michael Sacks, Steve Kanaly, Gregory Walcott
Rating66% 3.3485653.3485653.3485653.3485653.348565
In May 1969, Lou Jean Poplin (Goldie Hawn) visits her husband Clovis Michael Poplin (William Atherton) to tell him that their son will soon be placed in the care of foster parents. Even though he is four months away from release from the Beauford H. Jester Prison Farm in Texas, she forces him to escape to assist her in retrieving her child. They hitch a ride from the prison with an elderly couple, but when Texas Department of Public Safety Patrolman Maxwell Slide (Michael Sacks) stops the car, they take the car and run.
High Plains Drifter, 1h45
Directed by Clint Eastwood, James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror, Western
Themes Assassinat
Actors Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Geoffrey Lewis, Mitch Ryan, Jack Ging
Rating73% 3.699723.699723.699723.699723.69972
A stranger on horseback rides into the isolated mining town of Lago. Three gun-toting men follow him into the saloon, taunting him to fight. When they follow him to the barbershop and begin threatening him, the Stranger quickly dispatches the three with little effort. Impressed with this performance, a dwarf named Mordecai, who works in the barbershop, befriends the Stranger. A woman named Callie Travers arranges to bump into the Stranger in the street, claiming loudly it was his fault. When she slaps the cigar from his mouth while insulting him, he drags her into the livery stable and has sexual relations with her in a very rough and aggressive manner (the scene is initially depicted as a rape, but by its end, the woman has clearly given her consent, as she is portrayed as an active, and seemingly enthusiastic participant in the act). Next, the Stranger rents a room at the hotel but declines to give a name to the hotelier. That night, he dreams about a man being brutally whipped. In the morning he returns to the barbershop for a bath. Callie Travers shoots at him after he is in the tub; inexplicably, he remains uninjured.
Breezy
Breezy (1973)
, 1h48
Directed by Clint Eastwood, James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors William Holden, Kay Lenz, Roger C. Carmel, Marj Dusay, Shelley Morrison, Joan Hotchkis
Rating69% 3.4975153.4975153.4975153.4975153.497515
Edith Alice "Breezy" Breezerman (Kay Lenz), a free-spirited teenage runaway, wakes up from a one-night stand, gets dressed, and then walks out the door with her guitar. She catches a ride to the valley with a stranger who seems harmless at first, then when he starts to drive in the wrong direction and talks about "giving his last hitchhiker something to yell about", she jumps out of his car, runs-away and ends up on Frank Harmon's (William Holden) front lawn. Frank is a middle aged divorced man, who lives a solitary life at his post modern home in the hills. As he gets into his car to drive to work, Breezy jumps into his car asking for a ride to the valley. Breezy tells Frank about her the trouble she had this morning with the stranger and the two bond. Eventually Breezy sees a dog lying in the road and makes Frank pull over. Angered by Frank's lack of empathy for the poor animal Breezy becomes angry and then runs off crying. Realizing that the dog is still alive Frank carries the dog back to his car, when he opens the door the back seat Frank sees that Breezy left her guitar in his back seat and becomes angry because of all the trouble she has caused him.