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John Lee Thompson (1 August 1914 – 30 August 2002) was an English film director, screenwriter and producer. Initially an exponent of kitchen sink realism, he became known as a versatile and prolific director of thrillers, action, and adventure films.. His works included mainstream critical and commercial successes like Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), Ice Cold in Alex (1958), Tiger Bay (1959 ...
4 de sept. de 2002 · Thompson's first film in Hollywood, which turned out to be his finest, was Cape Fear (1961), starring Peck and Robert Mitchum, a study of sexual psychopathy with Mitchum terrorising the wife...
6 de sept. de 2002 · He is survived by his wife, Penny; a daughter, Lesley Sullivan of Falmouth, Mass.; and a granddaughter. A son, Peter Lee Thompson, died in 1997. A version of this article appears in...
John Lee Thompson ( Bristol, Inglaterra; 1 de agosto de 1914- Sooke, Canadá; 30 de agosto de 2002), más conocido como J. Lee Thompson, fue un director de cine inglés, activo en Inglaterra y Hollywood . Biografía. Thompson nació en Bristol, Inglaterra en el seno de una familia dedicada al teatro.
3 de sept. de 2002 · He is survived by his wife of 40 years Penny Thompson. Explore more on these topics. Film. Cape Fear. news. Reuse this content. <p>Veteran British film-maker was responsible for classics such...
29 de may. de 2023 · Thompson resumed his work in moderate dramas with No Trees in the Street (1959), which opens with a pre-war flashback to life on and of its central throughfare, an urban segment of poverty, hard work, and hardship. The film’s dominant family, their despondency and abiding kinship, is subjected to a breeding ground for corruption as the dissipation of decency seems all but inevitable; as a ...
11 de may. de 2024 · J Lee Thompson died in Sooke, British Columbia, Canada on 30 August 2002. Lee Thompson accepted the reality that as a feature director he worked within a commercial framework, and throughout his career serious films are interspersed with entertainments. But even within the entertainments he felt he could open up issues, such as the brief debate ...
