01-01-1926
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Capricorn
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Total Films
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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01-01-1926
Birthday
Capricorn
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Genres
0
Total Films
Richard Jerome Thorpe
Also Known As (male)
Los Angeles, California, USA
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producer
12 Works
director
36 Works
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5 Works
All God's Children
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.Year:
1980
A Question of Love
A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.Year:
1978
Stickin' Together
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."Year:
1978
The Lazarus Syndrome
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.Year:
1978
The Possessed
A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.Year:
1977
The Dark Side of Innocence
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.Year:
1976
The Healers
The director of an urban medical center faces various major problems during the course of running the hospital.Year:
1974
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
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.Year:
1974
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
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.Year:
1973
Company of Killers
A gunman working for a crime ring is hunted by both the police and his employers after a cop is murdered.Year:
1970
Day of the Evil Gun
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!Year:
1968
The Venetian Affair
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.Year:
1967
