Richard Thorpe ( February 24, 1896 , Hutchinson (Kansas) , USA - May 1, 1991 , Palm Springs , California , USA ) - American film director, screenwriter and actor.
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 Richard Thorpe (right), Faye Ray and Cesar Romero on the set of Cheated Scammers (1934) | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Hutchinson (Kansas) , USA |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Palm Springs , California , USA |
| Citizenship | |
| Profession | director , screenwriter |
| Career | 1924-1967 |
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Biography
He began his career in art, performing in vaudeville and on the stage. Since 1921, as an actor, he acted in films. In 1923, he directed his first silent film.
From 1930, he worked at Chesterfield Pictures, then at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .
In 1967, he left the film industry. In total, he shot more than one hundred and eighty films, including dramas, comedies, westerns, melodramas, costumed and adventure films, as well as several films from the series about the adventures of Tarzan .
Selected Filmography
- Producer
- 1928 - Vultures of the Sea
- 1929 - King of the Congo
- 1929 - The Fatal Warning
- 1930 - The Lone Defender
- 1930 - The Utah Kid
- 1932 - Slightly Married
- 1932 Murder at Dawn
- 1934 - Strange Wives
- 1936 - The Famous Bark / The Voice of Bugle Ann
- 1936 - Escape Tarzan / Tarzan Escapes
- 1937 - Double Wedding / Double Wedding
- 1937 - When the Night Comes
- 1938 - The Eighth Round / The Crowd Roars
- 1938 - The Wife - The Toy / The Toy Wife
- 1938 - The First Hundred Years
- 1939 - The Wizard of Oz (uncredited)
- 1939 - Tarzan finds a son! / Tarzan Finds a Son!
- 1939 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 1941 - Annoying Bill / Barnacle Bill
- 1941 - Tarzan's Secret Treasure
- 1941 - The Bad Man
- 1942 - White Cargo
- 1942 - Tarzan's New York Adventure
- 1943 - Above Suspicion / Above Suspicion
- 1943 - Three Hearts for Julia
- 1944 - Two Girls and a Sailor
- 1945 - Her Highness and the Bellboy / Her Highness and the Bellboy
- 1945 - Thrill of a Romance Honeymoon
- 1945 - The Thin Man Goes Home
- 1947 - Fiesta
- 1948 - Date with Judy / A Date with Judy
- 1948 - On an Island with You
- 1949 - Big Jack
- 1949 - Challenge to Lassie Opportunities
- 1950 - Malaya / Malaya
- 1950 - Three Little Words
- 1950 - Black Hand
- 1951 - The Great Caruso
- 1951 - The Unknown Man
- 1951 - It's a Big Country: An American Anthology
- 1951 - Vengeance Valley
- 1952 - Ivanhoe
- 1952 - Carbine Williams
- 1952 - The Prisoner of Zenda
- 1953 - The Girl Who Had Everything
- 1953 - All the Brothers Were Valiant
- 1953 - Knights of the Round
- 1954 - Athena / Athena
- 1954 - The Student Prince
- 1955 - The Prodigal
- 1955 - Quentin Durward
- 1955 - Enchanted / Bedevilled
- 1957 - Ten Thousand Bedrooms
- 1957 - Elvis Presley: Jailhouse Rock
- 1957 - Tip on a Dead Jockey
- 1959 - The House of the Seven Hawks
- 1959 - Killers of Kilimanjaro
- 1961 - The Honeymoon Machine
- 1961 - The Tatars / The Tartars
- 1962 - How the West Was Won (uncredited)
- 1963 - Fun in Acapulco / Fun in Acapulco
- 1963 - Follow the Boys
- 1965 - That Funny Feeling
- 1967 - The Last Challenge
- Screenwriter
- 1945 - Thrill of a Romance Honeymoon
Rewards
- US Film Critics Council Award for Best Film ( When the Night Comes , 1937).
- America's Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Directing a Feature Film.
- The film " Fiesta " - nomination for an Oscar for best music for a 1948 musical film - Johnny Green .
- The Great Caruso 1952 film - Oscar - winner in the category Best Sound ( Douglas Shearer ( Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer )). 1952 Oscar - Nominated in the Best Costume Design category ( Helen Rose and Gilles Steel ).
- The film " Aivengo " - Golden Globe Award for 1953 ( Best film for the development of international understanding .
- The film “ Knights of the Round Table ” was nominated for two Oscars - for the best sound and for the best work of the production designer . Nomination for the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival (1954).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 140126961 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
Links
- Thorp, Richard, on the Internet Movie Database
- Richard Thorpe