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J. Lee Thompson

Highest Rated: 92% The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Lowest Rated: 0% Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)

Birthday: Aug 1, 1914

Birthplace: Bristol, England, UK

Multi-talented figure from the stage who landed his first screen role in 1935. A competent technician, Thompson made his directorial debut in 1950 and went on to produce a considerable volume of British and American features, notably "The Guns of Navarone" (1961) and "Cape Fear" (1962). Thompson has also directed nine Charles Bronson vehicles.

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Highest-Rated Movies

92% 86% The Guns of Navarone Watchlist
92% 86% Cape Fear
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79% 87% Woman in a Dressing Gown
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78% 83% Tiger Bay
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52% 46% Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
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40% 40% The Evil That Men Do
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40% 52% 10 to Midnight
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36% 39% St. Ives
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33% 56% The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
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33% 44% Murphy's Law
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects 0% 35% 1989 Director Future Hunters 1988 Screenwriter Messenger of Death 24% 1988 Director Death Wish 4: The Crackdown 25% 40% 1987 Director Firewalker 8% 33% 1986 Director Murphy's Law 33% 44% 1986 Director King Solomon's Mines 8% 32% 1985 Director The Ambassador 33% 1984 Director The Evil That Men Do 40% 40% 1984 Director 10 to Midnight 40% 52% 1983 Director Happy Birthday to Me 29% 42% 1981 Director Code Red 1981 Director Caboblanco 8% 1980 Director The Passage 39% 1979 Director The Greek Tycoon 0% 27% 1978 Director The White Buffalo 17% 51% 1977 Director St. Ives 36% 39% 1976 Director Widow 1976 Director The Reincarnation of Peter Proud 33% 56% 1975 Director The Blue Knight 1975 Director Huckleberry Finn 28% 1974 Director Battle for the Planet of the Apes 33% 30% 1973 Director Conquest of the Planet of the Apes 52% 46% 1972 Director A Great American Tragedy 1972 Director Brotherly Love 1970 Director
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