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J. Lee Thompson
Director
J. Lee Thompson
Defining Films
Critical Essay (Excerpt)
He directed some of the most famous actors in film history, from Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, and Anthony Quinn, to Shirley MacLaine, Jacqueline Bisset, and Lauren Bacall. An Oscar-nominated filmmaker and winner of three prizes at the Berlin International Film Festival, his movies have also been nominated for multiple British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards as well as the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Working in nearly every conceivable genre, crafting quintessential…
Filmography (48)
Cape Fear
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Messenger of Death
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Murphy's Law
Firewalker
The Ambassador
King Solomon's Mines
The Evil That Men Do
10 to Midnight
Happy Birthday to Me
Caboblanco
The Passage
The Greek Tycoon
The White Buffalo
St. Ives
Widow
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
The Blue Knight
Huckleberry Finn
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
A Great American Tragedy
Brotherly Love
Mackenna's Gold
Before Winter Comes
The Chairman
Eye of the Devil
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Return from the Ashes
What a Way to Go!
Kings of the Sun
Taras Bulba
The Guns of Navarone
I Aim at the Stars
No Trees in the Street
Tiger Bay
North West Frontier
Ice Cold in Alex
The Good Companions
Woman in a Dressing Gown
Yield to the Night
As Long as They're Happy
An Alligator Named Daisy
For Better, for Worse
The Weak and the Wicked
The Yellow Balloon
Murder Without Crime