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Person · Director, screenwriter and producer · Active 1950–1989

J. Lee Thompson

1914–2002, Bristol

British director, screenwriter and producer, born in Bristol. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. Directed 32 films on this site, including The Guns of Navarone (1961), Cape Fear (1962) and Mackenna's Gold (1969).

Thompson received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director for The Guns of Navarone.
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After a war film, Before Winter Comes (1968) Thompson was reunited with the star, producer and writer of Navarone in the Western Mackenna's Gold (1969) but it did poorly at the box office.
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Regulars

Most films with J. Lee Thompson on this site

8Charles Bronsonacted in 8 of 32 films

Films in this guide

32 films

Best known

1950s 5 films

The Weak and the Wicked (1954)director, screenwriter
An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)director
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)director
North West Frontier (1959)director
Tiger Bay (1959)director

1960s 11 films

I Aim at the Stars (1960)director
The Guns of Navarone (1961)director
Cape Fear (1962)director
Taras Bulba (1962)director
Kings of the Sun (1963)director
What a Way to Go! (1964)director
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)director, producer
Return from the Ashes (1965)director
Eye of the Devil (1966)director
Before Winter Comes (1969)director
Mackenna's Gold (1969)director

1970s 7 films

Country Dance (1970)director
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)director
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)director
St. Ives (1976)director
The White Buffalo (1977)director
The Greek Tycoon (1978)director
The Passage (1979)director

1980s 9 films

Caboblanco (1980)director
10 to Midnight (1983)director
The Ambassador (1984)director
The Evil That Men Do (1984)director
King Solomon's Mines (1985)director
Firewalker (1986)director
Murphy's Law (1986)director
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)director
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)director