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Richard Thorpe

Highest Rated: 100% Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)

Lowest Rated: 57% Fun in Acapulco (1963)

Birthday: Feb 24, 1896

Birthplace: Hutchinson, Kansas, USA

Actor who turned to directing in 1923, progressing from low-budget material to more prestigious productions like the MGM "Tarzan" cycle. Proficient to the point of boredom ("His reputation for needing only one take is why we don't remember his films," quipped James Mason), Thorpe spent 33 years of his 45-year career with MGM and was immensely prolific and capable in all genres. Highlights include "Night Must Fall" (1938), "The Great Caruso" (1951), three Robert Taylor swashbucklers ("Ivanhoe" 1952, "Knights of the Round Table" 1954 and "Quentin Durward" 1955) and "Jailhouse Rock" (1957).

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 81% Two Girls and a Sailor
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100% 24% Vengeance Valley
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88% 74% How the West Was Won
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83% 62% Tarzan's New York Adventure
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79% 64% Ivanhoe
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75% 79% The Thin Man Goes Home
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71% 60% Tarzan Escapes
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67% 72% Jailhouse Rock
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67% 43% Knights of the Round Table
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57% 50% Fun in Acapulco
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The Last Challenge 30% 1967 Director, Producer The Scorpio Letters 1967 Director, Producer The Truth About Spring 40% 1965 Director That Funny Feeling 70% 1965 Director The Golden Head 1964 Director Follow the Boys 1963 Director Fun in Acapulco 57% 50% 1963 Director Sword of Lancelot 38% 1963 Sir Gareth Actor The Horizontal Lieutenant 1962 Director How the West Was Won 88% 74% 1962 Director The Honeymoon Machine 41% 1961 Director The Tartars 1961 Director Killers of Kilimanjaro 1960 Director The House of the Seven Hawks 20% 1959 Director The Barretts of Wimpole Street 54% 1957 Alfred Actor Tip on a Dead Jockey 1957 Director Ten Thousand Bedrooms 12% 1957 Director Jailhouse Rock 67% 72% 1957 Director The Prodigal 36% 1955 Director Quentin Durward 38% 1955 Director Athena 23% 1954 Director The Student Prince 57% 75% 1954 Director The Girl Who Had Everything 23% 1953 Director All the Brothers Were Valiant 25% 1953 Director Knights of the Round Table 67% 43% 1953 Director
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