Jerry Thorpe

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-01-01 (92 years old)

Deathday

2018-09-25

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Jerry Thorpe

Biography

Richard Jerome Thorpe (August 29, 1926 – September 25, 2018) was an American television-and-film director and producer.[1] Actor and director Richard Thorpe was his father. Thorpe served as the executive producer of 33 episodes of The Untouchables (starring Robert Stack) during the series's second season (1960–61). Thorpe also served as executive producer of Harry O, the 1973-75 David Janssen TV series. Thorpe won an Emmy award for his work on an episode of Kung Fu. In 2003, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him and his father. Thorpe died in Santa Barbara, California, at the age of 92 from ...

Production

1968

1977

The Possessed

as Executive Producer

1967

1977

The Possessed

as Director

1970

1970

1978

1971

Crosscurrent

as Director

1976

The Dark Side of Innocence

as Executive Producer

1952

The Bad and the Beautiful

as Assistant Director

1978

1986

Blood & Orchids

as Director

1968

1953

Take the High Ground!

as Assistant Director

1980

1980

1978

1978

1952

The Wild North

as Assistant Director

1967

1978

1953

Nostradamus and the Queen

as Assistant Director

1978

1971

1953

The Band Wagon

as Assistant Director

1970

Dial Hot Line

as Director

1985

Dirty Work

as Director

1974

The Healers

as Executive Producer

1983

Happy Endings

as Director

1953

Ride, Vaquero!

as Assistant Director

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