Jerry Thorpe

Directing

Jerry Thorpe

Born — Died

1926-01-01 — 2018-09-25

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

29 titles

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 natural causes. He was buried at Desert Memorial P…

Known for

Behind the camera

The Possessed poster
5.0

A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.

The Possessed

1977

Day of the Evil Gun poster
6.2

Returning home after disappearing three years ago, former gunslinger Lorn Warfield finds that an Apache raiding party has kidnapped his wife and children. Though he has renounced violence, he now takes up his gun and joins forces with his neighbor, Owen Forbes. Complicating matters, Forbes is engaged to Warfield's wife, who believed her husband was dead. As they pursue the Apaches, the two men are joined by an Indian trader, Jimmy Noble.

Day of the Evil Gun

1968

Day of the Evil Gun poster
6.2

Returning home after disappearing three years ago, former gunslinger Lorn Warfield finds that an Apache raiding party has kidnapped his wife and children. Though he has renounced violence, he now takes up his gun and joins forces with his neighbor, Owen Forbes. Complicating matters, Forbes is engaged to Warfield's wife, who believed her husband was dead. As they pursue the Apaches, the two men are joined by an Indian trader, Jimmy Noble.

Day of the Evil Gun

1968

A Question of Love poster
5.2

A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.

A Question of Love

1978

A Question of Love poster
5.2

A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.

A Question of Love

1978

The Venetian Affair poster
4.9

Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a peace conference.

The Venetian Affair

1966

The Venetian Affair poster
4.9

Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a peace conference.

The Venetian Affair

1966

Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon poster
7.2

After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.

Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon

1972

Lock, Stock and Barrel poster
8.0

A young frontier couple elope, are chased by the girl's father and brothers, join up with an escaped convict and get mixed up with a charlatan preacher.

Lock, Stock and Barrel

1971

All God's Children poster
6.5

Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one white, one black -- and their sons, who are buddies, provides the microcosm of this major social issue that has been argued for several decades.

All God's Children

1980

All God's Children poster
6.5

Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one white, one black -- and their sons, who are buddies, provides the microcosm of this major social issue that has been argued for several decades.

All God's Children

1980

Company of Killers poster
6.5

A gunman working for a crime ring is hunted by both the police and his employers after a cop is murdered.

Company of Killers

1970

Company of Killers poster
6.5

A gunman working for a crime ring is hunted by both the police and his employers after a cop is murdered.

Company of Killers

1970

Smile Jenny, You're Dead poster
6.8

David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series. Among the highlights: young Jodie Foster as Liberty, the wise-beyond-her-years homeless waif Harry befriends.

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

1974

Smile Jenny, You're Dead poster
6.8

David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series. Among the highlights: young Jodie Foster as Liberty, the wise-beyond-her-years homeless waif Harry befriends.

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

1974

Crosscurrent poster
7.0

Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain

Crosscurrent

1971

The Dark Side of Innocence poster
9.0

A suburban housewife's feeling that her life is standing still causes her to divorce her husband. This causes tension with her daughter, who bitterly resents her walking out on the family, and her mother, whose own beliefs about marriage and family are jolted by her daughter's divorce.

The Dark Side of Innocence

1976

I Want to Keep My Baby! poster
7.0

A 15-year-old girl becomes pregnant by her boyfriend and decides to keep the baby and raise her on her own, instead of initially choosing abortion at the insistence of her boyfriend, or raising the baby at home with her meddling mother.

I Want to Keep My Baby!

1976

Stickin' Together poster
7.5

A Hawaiian beach bum finds himself surrogate uncle to five orphaned children, helping them stay together, in this pilot movie for a TV series which turned up briefly in the spring of 1979 as "The Mackenzies of Paradise Cove."

Stickin' Together

1978

Stickin' Together poster
7.5

A Hawaiian beach bum finds himself surrogate uncle to five orphaned children, helping them stay together, in this pilot movie for a TV series which turned up briefly in the spring of 1979 as "The Mackenzies of Paradise Cove."

Stickin' Together

1978

Dial Hot Line poster
8.0

The head of a psychiatric telephone hotline inspires his associates to get out of the office and into the streets to help people with psychiatric problems.

Dial Hot Line

1970

Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On poster
6.3

David Janssen plays Harry Orwell, a retired L.A. cop who was shot during a robbery and whose partner was killed in the incident. Harry is in constant pain due to the bullet lodged near his spine, but he works off and on as a private detective to supplement his pension. Late one night, Harry is approached in his home by one of the men who shot him (Martin Sheen) to help find the other man (Sal Mineo) involved in the robbery, who he says is trying to kill him. Is it a setup? This was the first pilot for the ABC detective series *Harry O*, which (after a second pilot, *Smile Jenny, You're Dead*, was picked up) aired from September 1974 to April 1976.

Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On

1973

Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On poster
6.3

David Janssen plays Harry Orwell, a retired L.A. cop who was shot during a robbery and whose partner was killed in the incident. Harry is in constant pain due to the bullet lodged near his spine, but he works off and on as a private detective to supplement his pension. Late one night, Harry is approached in his home by one of the men who shot him (Martin Sheen) to help find the other man (Sal Mineo) involved in the robbery, who he says is trying to kill him. Is it a setup? This was the first pilot for the ABC detective series *Harry O*, which (after a second pilot, *Smile Jenny, You're Dead*, was picked up) aired from September 1974 to April 1976.

Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On

1973

Heaven Only Knows poster
7.0

An angel named Simon comes to Earth and finds that he enjoys, among other things, hot dogs, beer and meddling in the lives of people.

Heaven Only Knows

1979

Heaven Only Knows poster
7.0

An angel named Simon comes to Earth and finds that he enjoys, among other things, hot dogs, beer and meddling in the lives of people.

Heaven Only Knows

1979

Happy Endings poster
8.0

A teenager postpones his determination to become a songwriter so that he can keep his younger brother and two sisters together as a family following the death of their parents.

Happy Endings

1983

The Lazarus Syndrome poster
4.9

An adulterous newspaper reporter, who has just experienced a heart attack, pesters a doctor into investigating the questionable medical practices taking place at the hospital where both are residing.

The Lazarus Syndrome

1979

The Lazarus Syndrome poster
4.9

An adulterous newspaper reporter, who has just experienced a heart attack, pesters a doctor into investigating the questionable medical practices taking place at the hospital where both are residing.

The Lazarus Syndrome

1979

Dirty Work poster
NR

An unsold TV pilot starring Kerrie Keane and Louis Giambalvo.

Dirty Work

1985