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J. Lee Thompson, the Glossary

John Lee Thompson (1 August 1914 – 30 August 2002) was an English film director, screenwriter and producer.^[1]

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A Great American Tragedy

A Great American Tragedy is a 1972 American TV movie directed by J. Lee Thompson.

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Academy Award for Best Director

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Adventure film

An adventure film is a genre of film.

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Alec Baldwin

Alexander Rae Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American actor.

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Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor.

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Alexander Mackendrick

Alexander Mackendrick (September 8, 1912 – December 22, 1993) was an American director and professor.

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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. J. Lee Thompson and Alfred Hitchcock are British horror film directors, English film directors, English film producers and English male screenwriters.

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An Alligator Named Daisy

An Alligator Named Daisy is a 1955 British comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Donald Sinden, Jeannie Carson, James Robertson Justice, Diana Dors, Roland Culver and Stanley Holloway.

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Anna Chlumsky

Anna Maria Chlumsky (born December 3, 1980) is an American actress.

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Anthony Quayle

Sir John Anthony Quayle (7 September 1913 – 20 October 1989) was a British actor, theatre director and novelist.

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Anthony Quinn

Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), better known by his stage name Anthony Quinn, was an American actor.

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Arnold Wesker

Sir Arnold Wesker (24 May 1932 – 12 April 2016) was an English dramatist. J. Lee Thompson and Arnold Wesker are 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights.

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As Long as They're Happy

As Long as They're Happy is a 1955 British musical comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Jack Buchanan, Susan Stephen and Diana Dors.

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Associated British Picture Corporation

Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), originally British International Pictures (BIP), was a British film production, distribution and exhibition company active from 1927 until 1970 when it was absorbed into EMI.

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Australasian Post

The Australasian Post, commonly called the Aussie Post, was Australia's longest-running weekly picture magazine.

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BAFTA Award for Best Film

The BAFTA Award for Best Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards.

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BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film

The BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented at the British Academy Film Awards.

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Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Battle for the Planet of the Apes is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by John William Corrington and Joyce Hooper Corrington, based on a story by Paul Dehn.

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Before Winter Comes

Before Winter Comes is a 1969 British comedy-drama war film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Andrew Sinclair.

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Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale, is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Awards, is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television and video games in the United Kingdom.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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British New Wave

The British New Wave is a style of films released in Great Britain between 1959 and 1963.

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Caboblanco

Caboblanco is a 1980 American drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson, Dominique Sanda and Jason Robards.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.

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Cape Fear (1962 film)

Cape Fear is a 1962 American psychological thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson, from a screenplay by James R. Webb, adapting the 1957 novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald.

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Carrie Snodgress

Caroline Louise Snodgress (October 27, 1945 – April 1, 2004) was an American actress.

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Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor.

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Chips with Everything

Chips with Everything is a 1962 play by Arnold Wesker.

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Chuck Norris

Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist and actor.

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Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor.

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Code Red (American TV series)

Code Red is an American action drama television series that ran on ABC from November 1, 1981, to September 12, 1982 and was produced by Irwin Allen.

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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is a 1972 American science fiction film directed by J. Lee Thompson and written by Paul Dehn.

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Country Dance (film)

Country Dance (U.S. title: Brotherly Love) is a 1970 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Peter O'Toole, Susannah York and Michael Craig.

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Darryl F. Zanuck

Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era.

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David Niven

James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was a British actor, soldier, memoirist, and novelist.

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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown is a 1987 American vigilante action-thriller film, and the fourth installment in the ''Death Wish'' film series.

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Desmond Bagley

Desmond Bagley (29 October 1923 – 12 April 1983) was an English journalist and novelist known mainly for a series of bestselling thrillers.

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Diana Dors

Diana Dors (born Diana Mary Fluck; 23 October 19314 May 1984) was an English actress and singer.

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Directors Guild of America

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is an entertainment guild that represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad.

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Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards presented by the Directors Guild of America.

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Directors Guild of America Awards

The Directors Guild of America Awards are issued annually by the Directors Guild of America.

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Dirk Bogarde

Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter.

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Donald Sinden

Sir Donald Alfred Sinden (9 October 1923 – 12 September 2014) was a British actor.

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Dover College

Dover College is an independent day and boarding school in the English public school tradition located in Dover in south east England. J. Lee Thompson and Dover College are people educated at Dover College.

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Dudley Leslie

Dudley Leslie (1905–1998) was a British screenwriter and playwright.

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East of Piccadilly

East of Piccadilly released in the US as The Strangler is a 1941 British mystery film based on a story by Gordon Beckles.

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Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was a British and American actress.

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English people

The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.

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Eye of the Devil

Eye of the Devil, also known by its working title 13 or Thirteen, is a 1966 British mystery horror film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Donald Pleasence and Sharon Tate.

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Firewalker (film)

Firewalker is a 1986 American action-adventure comedy film starring Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett Jr., Will Sampson in his final feature film role, and Melody Anderson.

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For Better, for Worse (1954 film)

For Better, for Worse (U.S. title Cocktails in the Kitchen) is a 1954 British comedy film in Eastmancolor directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Dirk Bogarde, Susan Stephen and Cecil Parker.

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For Them That Trespass

For Them That Trespass is a 1949 British crime film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and starring Richard Todd, Patricia Plunkett and Stephen Murray.

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Glamorous Night (film)

Glamorous Night is a 1937 British drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Mary Ellis, Otto Kruger, Victor Jory and Barry MacKay.

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Glynis Johns

Glynis Margaret Payne Johns (5 October 1923 – 4 January 2024) was a British actress.

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Golden Bear

The Golden Bear (Goldener Bär) is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Director

The Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture is a Golden Globe Award that has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization composed of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America, since 1943.

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Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film was a Golden Globe Award created in 1948 and discontinued after 1973.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama is a Golden Globe Award that has been awarded annually since 1944 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).

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Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed for excellence in both American and international film and television.

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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. J. Lee Thompson and Graham Greene are 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights and English male screenwriters.

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Gregory Peck

Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor and one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s.

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Happy Birthday to Me (film)

Happy Birthday to Me is a 1981 slasher film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Melissa Sue Anderson and Glenn Ford.

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Harold Hecht

Harold Adolphe Hecht (June 1, 1907 – May 26, 1985) was an American film producer, dance director and talent agent. He was also, though less noted for, a literary agent, a theatrical producer, a theatre director and a Broadway actor. He was a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the Screen Producers Guild.

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Harold Pinter Theatre

The Harold Pinter Theatre, known as the Comedy Theatre until 2011,, BBC News, 7 September 2011, accessed 8 September 2011.

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Harry Andrews

Harry Stewart Fleetwood Andrews, CBE (10 November 1911 – 6 March 1989) was an English actor known for his film portrayals of tough military officers. J. Lee Thompson and Harry Andrews are Male actors from Kent.

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Hayley Mills

Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is a British actress.

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Horst Buchholz

Horst Werner Buchholz (4 December 1933 – 3 March 2003) was a German actor who appeared in more than 60 feature films from 1951 to 2002.

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Huckleberry Finn (1974 film)

Huckleberry Finn is a 1974 musical film version of Mark Twain's 1884 novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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I Aim at the Stars

I Aim at the Stars is a 1960 West German-American biographical film which tells the story of the life of Wernher von Braun.

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Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex is a 1958 British war film set during the Western Desert campaign of World War II based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Landon.

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International Federation of Film Critics

The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in Brussels, Belgium.

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J. B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984) was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator. J. Lee Thompson and J. B. Priestley are 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights.

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Jack Buchanan

Walter John Buchanan (2 April 1891 – 20 October 1957) was a Scottish theatre and film actor, singer, dancer, producer and director.

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Jamaica Inn (film)

Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British adventure thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name.

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Jeff East

Jeffrey Franklin East (born October 27, 1957) is an American actor.

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Joan Henry

Joan Constance Anne Henry (8 April 1914 – 2000) was an English novelist, playwright and screenwriter. J. Lee Thompson and Joan Henry are 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights.

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John D. MacDonald

John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories.

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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! is a 1965 American comedy film based on the novel by William Peter Blatty published in 1963.

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John Mills

Sir John Mills (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills; 22 February 190823 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.

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Kathleen Wilhoite

Kathleen Wilhoite (born June 29, 1964) is an American actress and musician.

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Kenneth More

Kenneth Gilbert More, CBE (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was an English film and stage actor.

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King Solomon's Mines (1985 film)

King Solomon's Mines is a 1985 action adventure film, and a film adaptation of the 1880 novel of the same name by H. Rider Haggard.

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Kings of the Sun

Kings of the Sun is a 1963 DeLuxe Color film directed by J. Lee Thompson for Mirisch Productions set in Mesoamerica at the time of the conquest of Chichen Itza by Hunac Ceel.

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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects is a 1989 American action thriller film starring Charles Bronson and directed by J. Lee Thompson.

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Kitchen sink realism

Kitchen sink realism (or kitchen sink drama) is a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, novels, film and television plays, whose protagonists usually could be described as "angry young men" who were disillusioned with modern society.

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Last Holiday (1950 film)

Last Holiday is a 1950 British black comedy film, featuring Alec Guinness in his sixth starring role.

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Lauren Bacall

Betty Joan Perske (September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014), professionally known as Lauren Bacall, was an American actress.

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Lori Martin

Dawn Catherine Menzer (April 18, 1947 – April 4, 2010), known professionally as Lori Martin, was an American actress.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Louis Gossett Jr.

Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. (May 27, 1936 – March 29, 2024) was an American actor.

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Mackenna's Gold

Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American Western film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring an ensemble cast featuring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Ted Cassidy, Camilla Sparv and Julie Newmar in lead roles.

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Martin Poll

Martin Poll (November 24, 1922 – April 14, 2012) was an American film and television producer.

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Melody Anderson

Melody Anderson (born December 3, 1955) is a Canadian retired actress, social worker and public speaker specializing in the impact of addiction on families.

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Messenger of Death

Messenger of Death is a 1988 American vigilante action thriller film starring Charles Bronson.

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Murder Without Crime

Murder Without Crime is a 1950 British crime film directed by J. Lee Thompson (his first film, credited as J. Lee-Thompson) and starring Dennis Price, Derek Farr and Patricia Plunkett.

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Murphy's Law (film)

Murphy's Law is a 1986 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Gail Morgan Hickman.

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Neo-noir

Neo-noir is a revival of film noir, a genre that had originally flourished during and after World War II in the United Statesroughly from 1940 to 1960.

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No Place for Jennifer

No Place for Jennifer is a 1950 British film directed by Henry Cass and starring Leo Genn, Rosamund John, Guy Middleton and Janette Scott.

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No Trees in the Street

No Trees in the Street is a 1959 British crime thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom and Melvyn Hayes.

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North West Frontier (film)

North West Frontier (USA: Flame Over India; Australia: Empress of India) is a 1959 British Eastmancolor adventure film starring Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White and I. S. Johar.

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Palme d'Or

The (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Paul Dehn

Paul Edward Dehn (5 November 1912 – 30 September 1976) was a British screenwriter, best known for Goldfinger, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Planet of the Apes sequels and Murder on the Orient Express. J. Lee Thompson and Paul Dehn are 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights and English male screenwriters.

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Paul Winfield

Paul Edward Winfield (May 22, 1939 – March 7, 2004) was an American actor.

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Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes is a science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a post-apocalyptic world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control as the dominant species.

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Polly Bergen

Polly Bergen (born Nellie Paulina Burgin; July 14, 1930 – September 20, 2014) was an American actress, singer, television host, writer and entrepreneur.

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Return from the Ashes

Return from the Ashes is a 1965 British thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Ingrid Thulin, Maximilian Schell, Samantha Eggar and Herbert Lom.

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Rhodes

Rhodes (translit) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and is their historical capital; it is the ninth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Richard Chamberlain

George Richard Chamberlain (born March 31, 1934) is an American actor and singer who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare (1961–1966).

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Richard Romanus

Richard Romanus (born Richard Joseph Romanos; February 28, 1943 – December 23, 2023) was an American actor.

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Robert Clark (film executive)

Robert Clark (1905–1984) was a Scottish film executive best known for being head of production at Associated British Picture Corporation in the late 1940s and 1950s.

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Robert F. Lyons (actor)

Robert Francis Lyons (born October 17, 1939, in Albany, New York) is an American actor of film and television.

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Robert Mitchum

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Savoy Theatre

The Savoy Theatre is a West End theatre in the Strand in the City of Westminster, London, England.

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Shirley Anne Field

Shirley Anne Field (born Shirley Broomfield; 27 June 1936 – 10 December 2023) was an English actress who performed on stage, film and television since 1955.

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Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty on April 24, 1934) is an American actress and author.

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Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.

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Sooke

Sooke is a district municipality on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada, by road from Victoria, the capital of British Columbia.

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St. Ives (1976 film)

St.

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Susan Hampshire

Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, (born 12 May 1937) is an English actress.

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Sylvia Syms

Sylvia May Laura Syms (6 January 1934 – 27 January 2023) was an English stage and screen actress.

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Taras Bulba (1962 film)

Taras Bulba is a 1962 American Color by Deluxe in Eastmancolor historical adventure drama film loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's novel Taras Bulba, starring Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner.

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Ted Willis, Baron Willis

Edward Henry Willis, Baron Willis (13 January 1914 – 22 December 1992) was an English playwright, novelist and screenwriter who was also politically active in support of the Labour Party. J. Lee Thompson and Ted Willis, Baron Willis are English male screenwriters.

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The Ambassador (1984 American film)

The Ambassador is a 1984 American political thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Rock Hudson and Allan Younger.

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The Blue Knight (TV series)

The Blue Knight is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from December 17, 1975 until October 20, 1976.

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The Cannon Group, Inc.

The Cannon Group, Inc. was an American group of companies, including Cannon Films, which produced films from 1967 to 1994.

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The Chairman (1969 film)

The Chairman (or alternatively The Most Dangerous Man in the World) is a 1969 spy film starring Gregory Peck.

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The Evil That Men Do (film)

The Evil That Men Do is a 1984 action thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson, and starring Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, and Joseph Maher.

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The Executioners (MacDonald novel)

The Executioners is a psychological thriller-suspense novel written by John D. MacDonald, published in 1957.

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The Good Companions (1957 film)

The Good Companions is a 1957 British musical film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Eric Portman.

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The Greek Tycoon

The Greek Tycoon is a 1978 American biographical romantic drama film, of the roman à clef type, directed by J. Lee Thompson.

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The Guns of Navarone (film)

The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 action adventure war film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel of the same name.

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The Hasty Heart

The Hasty Heart is a 1949 war drama film, an Anglo-American co-production starring Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, and Richard Todd and directed by Vincent Sherman.

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The Human Touch

The Human Touch is a play by Dudley Leslie and J. Lee Thompson.

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The Middle Watch (1940 film)

The Middle Watch is a 1940 British comedy film, directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Jack Buchanan, Greta Gynt, Fred Emney and Kay Walsh.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Passage (1979 film)

The Passage is a 1979 British action-war film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell and Patricia Neal.

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The Price of Folly

The Price of Folly is a 1937 British drama film directed by Walter Summers and starring Leonora Corbett, Colin Keith-Johnston and Judy Kelly.

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The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud is a 1975 American psychological horror film directed by J. Lee Thompson, and starring Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, and Jennifer O'Neill.

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The Weak and the Wicked

The Weak and the Wicked (called Young and Willing in the United States) is a 1954 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson based on the autobiographical novel Who Lie in Gaol by his wife, Joan Henry, starring Glynis Johns and Diana Dors.

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The White Buffalo

The White Buffalo is a 1977 fantasy Western film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Charles Bronson, Kim Novak, Jack Warden, Slim Pickens and Will Sampson.

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The Yellow Balloon (film)

The Yellow Balloon is a 1953 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Andrew Ray, William Sylvester, Kathleen Ryan, Kenneth More and Hy Hazell.

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Thriller film

Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience.

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Tiger Bay (1959 film)

Tiger Bay is a 1959 British crime drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson.

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Times Colonist

The Times Colonist is an English-language daily newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

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Warner Bros.

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Warren Beatty

Henry Warren Beatty (né Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Lee_Thompson

Also known as J Lee Thompson, J. Lee-Thompson, John Lee-Thompson.

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