Director of Cool Hand Luke, Amityville Horror dead

Stuart Rosenberg died of a heart attack last Thursday at the age of 79. The director worked in TV, most notably with Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone, before making his feature film debut with Cool Hand Luke, the first of four films he would make with Paul Newman. He made 14 pictures in all, with the biggest box-office success being 1979’s Amityville Horror.