Richard Thorpe

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For the historian and biographer, see D. R. Thorpe.

Richard Thorpe (February 24, 1896 - May 1, 1991) was an American film director.

Born Rollo Smolt Thorpe in Hutchinson, Kansas, he began his entertainment career performing in vaudeville and on the theatre stage. In 1921 he began in motion pictures as an actor and directed his first silent film in 1923. He went on to direct more than one hundred and eighty films. The first full length motion picture he directed for MGM was "Last of the Pagans" (1935) starring Ray Mala.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Richard Thorpe has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6101 Hollywood Blvd.

Richard Thorpe retired from the film business after his 1967 film. He died in Palm Springs, California in 1991.

[edit] Partial filmography (director)

• The Fatal Photo (1923)
• Rarin' to Go (1924)
• Gold and Grit (1925)
• Deuce High (1926)
• Ride 'em High (1927)
• Desperate Courage (1928)
• The Fatal Warning (1929)
• The Utah Kid (1930)
• The Lady From Nowhere (1931)
• Slightly Married (1932)
• Notorious But Nice (1933)
• Green Eyes (1934)
• Last of the Pagans (1935)
• Strange Wives (1935)
• Tarzan Escapes (1936)
• Dangerous Number (1937)
• The Crowd Roars (1938)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939),
• Wyoming (1940)
• Barnacle Bill (1941)
• Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
• Above Suspicion (1943)
• Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
• The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
• This Time for Keeps (1947)
• On an Island with You (1948)
• Malaya (1949)
• Black Hand (1950)
• The Unknown Man (1951)
• Vengeance Valley (1951)
• Carbine Williams (1952)
• Ivanhoe (1952)
• The Girl Who Had Everything (1953)
• Knights of the Round Table (1953)
• Athena (1954)
• The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955)
• Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)
• Jailhouse Rock (1957)
• Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959)
• The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
• The Tartars (1961)
• The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962)
• Follow the Boys (1963)
• The Golden Head (1964)
• The Truth About Spring (1964)
• That Funny Feeling (1965)
• The Last Challenge (1967)