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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Lee Thompson (1 August 1914 – 30 August 2002), better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an English film director, active in England and Hollywood. Description above from the Wikipedia article J. Lee Thompson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001
as Self
A short documentary with interviews explaining how the classic film "Cape Fear" was filmed.

The Unforgettable Diana Dors
2000
as Self
Short documentary profiling the life of British 'Blonde Bombshell' Diana Dors, who died of cancer in 1984. Movie clips and TV footage are mixed with c...

Behind the Planet of the Apes
1998
as Self
Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right onto the movie set to see the actual filming of the s...
Empire of the Censors
1995
as Self
The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.

Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
1995
as Self
There is only one Yul Brynner. No other actor had his looks, his range of talents, his energy and his capacity to draw others into the spell of his ch...

Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990
as Self
Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident. Thus began the story of a man who had a thousand ...

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
1989
Director
A brutal Los Angeles police lieutenant is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.

Messenger of Death
1988
Director
A Denver reporter investigates the mass murder of a family of Mormons in rural Colorado.

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
1987
Director
After the death of his girlfriend's daughter from a drug overdose, Paul Kersey takes on the local drug cartel.

Firewalker
1986
Director
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.

Murphy's Law
1986
Director
A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and pro...

Future Hunters
1986
Screenplay
A man from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to prevent the coming nuclear holocaust and enlists the help of a young couple.

King Solomon's Mines
1985
Director
Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who ...

The Ambassador
1985
Director
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at ever...

The Evil That Men Do
1984
Director
A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer (Joseph Mahe...

10 to Midnight
1983
Director, Story
Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. To minimize the evidence, Stacy always kills while...

Happy Birthday to Me
1981
Director
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take pl...

Caboblanco
1980
Director
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea ex...

The Passage
1979
Director
During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pur...

The Greek Tycoon
1978
Director
A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.

The White Buffalo
1977
Director
In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquel...

St. Ives
1976
Director
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.

Widow
1976
Director
A woman is left on her own to raise her two children after the unexpected death of her husband.

The Blue Knight
1975
Director
In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force before his retirement investigates the murder of h...

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
1975
Director
When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he's mysteriously drawn to a place he's never been to, but whic...

Huckleberry Finn
1974
Director
Huckleberry Finn is a 15-year-old boy who has had a difficult relationship with his often violent father for a long time. When Dad tried to kidnap him...

Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973
Director
The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar ...
A Great American Tragedy
1972
Director
A middle-aged aerospace engineer has his whole life changed when he is suddenly laid off from his job. Unable to find work because of his age and a ba...

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
1972
Director
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, an...

Brotherly Love
1970
Director
Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.

The Chairman
1969
Director
An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a...

Mackenna's Gold
1969
Director
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to ke...

Before Winter Comes
1969
Director
Drama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates between Russian and British...

Eye of the Devil
1966
Director
A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.

All Eyes on Sharon Tate
1966
as Self - Interviewee
Promotional short film on an aspiring young actress Sharon Tate and her first film Eye of the Devil (1966).

Return from the Ashes
1965
Director, Producer
A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that ...

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965
Director, Producer
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon...

What a Way to Go!
1964
Director
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be ...

Kings of the Sun
1963
Director
In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the U...

Taras Bulba
1962
Director
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for hi...

Cape Fear
1962
Director
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and hi...

The Guns of Navarone
1961
Director
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range fiel...

I Aim at the Stars
1960
Director
The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von Braun...

North West Frontier
1959
Director
In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsole...

No Trees in the Street
1959
Director
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide...

Tiger Bay
1959
Director
In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting P...

Ice Cold in Alex
1958
Director
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader o...

Woman in a Dressing Gown
1957
Director, Producer
A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beau...

The Good Companions
1957
Director, Producer
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

Yield to the Night
1956
Director
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

An Alligator Named Daisy
1955
Director
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and wh...

As Long as They're Happy
1955
Director
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Co...

For Better, for Worse
1954
Director, Screenplay
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.1...

The Weak and the Wicked
1954
Director, Writer
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At...

The Yellow Balloon
1953
Director
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.

Murder Without Crime
1950
Director, Screenplay
A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife.

No Place for Jennifer
1950
Writer
A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.

For Them That Trespass
1949
Screenplay
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begi...

East of Piccadilly
1941
Screenplay
A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the interest of a crime reporter to the case.
The Middle Watch
1940
Writer
Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon, wh...

Jamaica Inn
1939
Dialogue Coach
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeep...