Richard Thorpe
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday24 February 1896
Died1 May 1991 (age 95)
Place of birthHutchinson, Kansas, USA
Known credits155
Biography
Richard Thorpe (February 24, 1896 - May 1, 1991) was an American film director. Born Rollo Smolt Thorpe in Hutchinson, Kansas, he began his entertainment career performing in vaudeville and onstage. In 1921 he began in motion pictures as an actor and directed his first silent film in 1923. He went on to direct more than one hundred and eighty films. The first full length motion picture he directed for MGM was Last of the Pagans (1935) starring Ray Mala. After directing The Last Challenge in 1967, he retired from the film industry. He died in Palm Springs, California in 1991. Thorpe is also kn…
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · Thanks
The Scorpio Letters
1967 · Producer
The Scorpio Letters
1967 · Director
The Last Challenge
1967 · Producer
The Last Challenge
1967 · Director
That Funny Feeling
1965 · Director
The Truth About Spring
1965 · Director
The Golden Head
1964 · Director
Fun in Acapulco
1963 · Director
Follow the Boys
1963 · Director
How the West Was Won
1962 · Special Guest Director
The Horizontal Lieutenant
1962 · Director
The Honeymoon Machine
1961 · Director
The Tartars
1961 · Director
The House of the Seven Hawks
1959 · Director
Killers of Kilimanjaro
1959 · Director
Tip on a Dead Jockey
1957 · Director
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957 · Director
Jailhouse Rock
1957 · Director
Quentin Durward
1955 · Director
The Prodigal
1955 · Director
Bedevilled
1955 · Director
Athena
1954 · Director
The Student Prince
1954 · Director
Knights of the Round Table
1953 · Director
All the Brothers Were Valiant
1953 · Director
The Girl Who Had Everything
1953 · Director
The Prisoner of Zenda
1952 · Director
Ivanhoe
1952 · Director
Carbine Williams
1952 · Director
It's a Big Country
1951 · Director
The Unknown Man
1951 · Director
The Great Caruso
1951 · Director
Vengeance Valley
1951 · Director
Three Little Words
1950 · Director
Black Hand
1950 · Director
Malaya
1949 · Director
Challenge to Lassie
1949 · Director
The Sun Comes Up
1949 · Director
Big Jack
1949 · Director
A Date with Judy
1948 · Director
On an Island with You
1948 · Director
This Time for Keeps
1947 · Director
Fiesta
1947 · Director
What Next, Corporal Hargrove?
1945 · Director
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945 · Director
Thrill of a Romance
1945 · Director
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944 · Director
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