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J. Lee Thompson

Director

J. Lee Thompson

Directing
1956 — 1989 · 26 films
Lived
1 August 1914 — d. 2002
From
Bristol, England, UK

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Career Signature

How J. Lee Thompson’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they directed.

kinetic urgency
anxious dread
tightly wound
crowd-pleaser
slow burn

Tuned by the Perfery ranker. Aggregated equal-weight across every directed film.

Tonal kin

Richard FleischerRichard Fleischer29 filmsRobert AldrichRobert Aldrich27 filmsJohn FrankenheimerJohn Frankenheimer25 filmsJohn GuillerminJohn Guillermin13 filmsRoger DonaldsonRoger Donaldson17 filmsJack SmightJack Smight7 filmsAndré de TothAndré de Toth13 filmsTerence YoungTerence Young12 films

Filmography

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

1989

Messenger of Death

1988

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

1987

Firewalker

1986

Murphy's Law

1986

King Solomon's Mines

1985

The Evil That Men Do

1984

10 to Midnight

1983

Happy Birthday to Me

1981

The Passage

1979

The White Buffalo

1977

St. Ives

1976

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

1975

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

1973

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

1972

Mackenna's Gold

1969

Eye of the Devil

1966

What a Way to Go!

1964

Cape Fear

1962

Taras Bulba

1962

The Guns of Navarone

1961

Tiger Bay

1959

North West Frontier

1959

Ice Cold in Alex

1958

Woman in a Dressing Gown

1957

Yield to the Night

1956