Tom Gries
Highest Rated: 87% Will Penny (1968)
Lowest Rated: 20% The Greatest (1977)
Birthday: Dec 20, 1922
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Tom Gries got his start as a director during the golden age of television and moved on to such assignments as "The Westerner," "The Court of Last Resort," and "East Side/West Side," a story about a social worker in NYC, for which he won an Emmy. Other directorial jobs came his way on classic series including "I Spy," the thrilling spy drama "Mission: Impossible," and the kitschy superhero show "Batman." One of Gries greatest credits, however, was as a writer/director on the Western feature "Will Penny," starring Charlton Heston as an aging cowhand. Gries went on to make two other films with Heston, the much less successful "Number One" and "The Hawaiians," based on the novel by James Michener. Later, he worked on films with such box-office stars as Burt Reynolds and Charles Bronson; with Bronson, Gries made "Breakheart Pass," before returning to the small screen to direct the powerfully disturbing "Helter Skelter," about the Manson family murders. During post-production on his last film, a biopic about the boxer Muhammad Ali called "The Greatest," Gries collapsed and died of a heart attack while playing tennis. He was 54 years old.
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Tom Gries
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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20% |
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The Greatest | Director | - | 1977 |
68% |
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Breakheart Pass | Director | - | 1975 |
57% |
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Breakout | Director | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Migrants |
Director, Producer |
- | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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QB VII | Director | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Healers | Director | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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Lady Ice | Director | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Call to Danger | Director | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Connection | Director | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Journey Through Rosebud | Director | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet |
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The Glass House | Director | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet |
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Earth II | Director | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fools | Director | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet |
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The Hawaiians | Director | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet |
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100 Rifles | Director | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Number One | Director | - | 1969 |
87% |
|
Will Penny |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mustang | Director | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girl in the Woods | Director | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet |
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King Dinosaur | Screenwriter | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hell's Horizon | Director | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hunters of the Deep |
Writer, Producer |
- | 1954 |
50% |
|
Donovan's Brain | Producer | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bushwhackers | Screenwriter | - | 1951 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rat Patrol |
Creator, Director, Executive Producer, Writer |
1966-1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Director | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Felony Squad | Director | 1966 |
72% | 79% | Batman | Director | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Man Called Shenandoah | Director | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Trials of O'Brien | Director | 1965 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Director | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | East Side/West Side | Director | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Route 66 | Director | 1962-1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cain's Hundred | Director | 1961-1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rifleman | Writer | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dante | Writer | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theatre | Director | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny Ringo |
Director, Writer |
1959 |