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J. Lee Thompson
Director 1914 - 2002

J. Lee Thompson

Bristol, England, UK

​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,... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

39 titles
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

J. Lee Thompson 1989 1h 37m 8.0

A Tokyo businessman (Hiroshi Hada), transferred to L.A, molests a teenage girl on a train. It turns out that the girl is the daughter of a vice cop. But in one of those plot twists that can only occur in the movies, the cop is assigned to find the businessman's own daughter who has been kidnapped and forced into a teen prostitution ring.

Messenger of Death

Messenger of Death

J. Lee Thompson 1988 1h 31m 6.0

Journalist (Charles Bronson) investigates the massacre of a Mormon family.

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

J. Lee Thompson 1987 1h 39m 4.3

After the death of his girlfriends daughter from a drug overdose, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) takes on the local drug cartel.

Murphy's Law

Murphy's Law

J. Lee Thompson 1986 1h 40m 4.0

A tough police detective escapes from custody handcuffed to a foul-mouthed car thief after being framed for the murder of his ex-wife. He must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.

Firewalker

Firewalker

J. Lee Thompson 1986 1h 44m 2.5

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

King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines

J. Lee Thompson 1985 1h 40m 4.5

Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.

The Evil That Men Do

The Evil That Men Do

J. Lee Thompson 1984 1h 30m 3.5

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 Maher) employed by an oppressive foreign dictatorship.

The Ambassador

The Ambassador

J. Lee Thompson 1984 1h 37m

An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.

10 to Midnight

10 to Midnight

J. Lee Thompson 1983 1h 42m 6.5

Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. To minimize the evidence, Stacy always kills while naked, wearing nothing but gloves, and further evades the law with his strong alibis. Veteran detective Leo Kessler is convinced of Stacy's guilt and begins using questionable methods to catch him.

Happy Birthday to Me

Happy Birthday to Me

J. Lee Thompson 1981 1h 50m 6.0

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 place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier.

Caboblanco

Caboblanco

J. Lee Thompson 1980 1h 27m

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 explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her.

The Passage

The Passage

J. Lee Thompson 1979 1h 39m 6.0

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 pursued by a sadistic German.

The White Buffalo

The White Buffalo

J. Lee Thompson 1977 1h 37m 5.0

At the closing of 1874 a haunted, dying Wild Bill Hickok teams up with a grieving Crazy Horse to hunt a murderous albino buffalo.

St. Ives

St. Ives

J. Lee Thompson 1976 1h 34m 4.7

Abner Procane, top L.A. burglar, finds that somebody stole his plans for next ambitious heist. He hires Raymond St. Ives, crime books writer, to negotiate the return of those documents.

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

J. Lee Thompson 1975 1h 45m 5.0

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 which seems familiar and where he soon finds his previous incarnation's wife.

Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn

J. Lee Thompson 1974 1h 58m

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, Huck decides to run away from home, and heads out of town on a raft. Huck is soon joined by Jim, a runaway slave who is no more eager to see his master than Huck is to see his father.

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

J. Lee Thompson 1973 1h 33m 5.9

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 lives in harmony with a group of humans.

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

J. Lee Thompson 1972 1h 28m 5.4

In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.

Country Dance

Country Dance

J. Lee Thompson 1970 1h 47m

An adaptation of James Kennaway's novel Household Ghosts.

The Chairman

The Chairman

J. Lee Thompson 1969 1h 33m 4.0

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 micro-sized bomb has been planted in his brain so that should the mission ever look likely to fail, he can be eliminated at the push of a button!

Mackenna's Gold

Mackenna's Gold

J. Lee Thompson 1969 2h 8m 5.5

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 keep the secret location undisturbed.

Before Winter Comes

Before Winter Comes

J. Lee Thompson 1969 1h 43m

Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates between Russian and British military brass enters into a friendly rivalry with British Major Giles Burnside, who is in charge of assigning the displaced persons into either the American or Russian zones.

Eye of the Devil

Eye of the Devil

J. Lee Thompson 1966 1h 36m 6.3

Workers employed at a French vineyard quietly follow old pagan rituals that call for the life of the marquis owner to save his crops during dry seasons.

Return from the Ashes

Return from the Ashes

J. Lee Thompson 1965 1h 45m

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 her husband, the handsome gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has been having an affair with her stepdaughter Fabi in her absence.

What a Way to Go!

What a Way to Go!

J. Lee Thompson 1964 1h 51m 7.0

This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

Kings of the Sun

Kings of the Sun

J. Lee Thompson 1963 1h 48m 5.5

On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of king Balam.

Taras Bulba

Taras Bulba

J. Lee Thompson 1962 1h 59m 6.3

Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.

Cape Fear

Cape Fear

J. Lee Thompson 1962 1h 46m 8.4

A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.

The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone

J. Lee Thompson 1961 2h 40m 7.4

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun

J. Lee Thompson 1960 1h 46m

The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age.

Tiger Bay

Tiger Bay

J. Lee Thompson 1959 1h 45m

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 Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky's shiny black revolver — and flees the scene.

North West Frontier

North West Frontier

J. Lee Thompson 1959 2h 9m 7.0

In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued by Muslim rebels intent on assassinating the prince.

No Trees in the Street

No Trees in the Street

J. Lee Thompson 1959 1h 36m 6.0

London detective recalls 1930s poverty. Hetty battles brother's criminality, manipulative mother favoring racketeer Wilkie for gain. Slums contrasted with new high-rises.

Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex

J. Lee Thompson 1958 2h 5m 7.0

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 of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria

The Good Companions

The Good Companions

J. Lee Thompson 1957 1h 44m 6.0

A touring variety troupe, the "Dinky Doos" are in financial trouble. An encounter with three strangers - Inigo Jollifant (a romantic, song-writing ex-schoolmaster), Miss Trant (a philanthropic spinster in search of adventure), and Jess Oakroyd (a down-to-earth, practical man recently made redundant from his job) leads to a change of fortune.

Yield to the Night

Yield to the Night

J. Lee Thompson 1956 1h 39m 6.5

A beautiful young woman snaps and kills a man she thought truly loved her. Her past shows that she's had a life of abusive relationships with men.

The Weak and the Wicked

The Weak and the Wicked

J. Lee Thompson 1954 1h 28m 6.0

Frank "women in prison" story that sympathetically tracks several inmates through their imprisonment and subsequent return to society. Some are successfully rehabilitated; some are not.

For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse

J. Lee Thompson 1954 1h 25m 6.0

In postwar London, Tony and Anne marry despite her wealthy parents' doubts. With a modest job and tiny flat, they struggle with tight finances, limited space, difficult neighbors, and her parents' interference.

Murder Without Crime

Murder Without Crime

J. Lee Thompson 1950 1h 18m 7.0

In London, a man is blackmailed by his landlord-neighbor after he accidentally kills, in his flat, a woman he picked up in a nightclub.

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