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Richard Thorpe

Richard Thorpe

American actor and film director (1896-1991)
February 24, 1896 (May 1, 1991)
U.S. 1967. Spy drama by Richard Thorpe with Alex Cord, Shirley Eaton, Laurence Naismith. Two secret agents confront a criminal organization specialized in blackmail.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1967. Western by Richard Thorpe with Glenn Ford, Angie Dickinson, Chad Everett. Attracted by a sheriff's reputation as a skilled marksman, a young man comes to his town determined to challenge him.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1965. Comedy by Richard Thorpe with Hayley Mills, James MacArthur, John Mills. A young lawyer has an affair with an old sailor and his daughter.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1965. Comedy by Richard Thorpe with Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Donald O'Connor. A young girl takes advantage of an apartment owner's absence to give a date to a young man.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1963. Musical by Richard Thorpe with Elvis Presley, Ursula Andress, Larry Domasin. A laid-off sailor finds a job in an Acapulco hotel, where he falls in love with a pretty colleague who is coveted by another employee.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1962. Comedy by Richard Thorpe with Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Miyoshi Umeki. A lieutenant has various funny adventures during a mission assigned to him at a remote outpost in the Pacific Islands.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1962. Comedy by Richard Thorpe with Connie Francis, Russ Tamblyn, Janis Paige. Four young women go from port to port to join their husbands or fianc?s serving on a ship of the American fleet.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1961. Comedy by Richard Thorpe with Steve McQueen (I), Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss. A navy lieutenant uses a ship's computer to win at roulette in the Venice casino.
Runtime: 87 min.
U.S. 1959. Crime drama by Richard Thorpe with Robert Taylor, Nicole Maurey, Linda Christian. An adventurer leads a Dutch police officer on a mission to his country.
Runtime: 92 min.
G.-B. 1959. Adventures by Richard Thorpe with Robert Taylor, Anne Aubrey, Anthony Newley. An engineer, in charge of building a railroad in Africa, has to face many obstacles.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1957. Drama by Richard Thorpe with Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Gia Scala. A former war hero is involved in a smuggling case.
Runtime: 109 min.
U.S. 1957. Musical drama by Richard Thorpe with Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy. After a stint in prison, a young brawler becomes a successful singer.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1956. Adventures by Richard Thorpe with Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley. In the fifteenth century, a Scottish knight becomes the protector of a French countess who is the target of political intrigues.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1956. Comedy by Richard Thorpe with Dean Martin, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Monique Van Vooren. In order to marry the youngest daughter of an Italian family, a hotel owner must find husbands for her three sisters.
Runtime: 114 min.
U.S. 1955. Biblical drama by Richard Thorpe with Lana Turner, Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern. The Israelite Micah abandons his paternal home and, after many stormy adventures, returns to his father.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 1954. Musical by Richard Thorpe with Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson. A prince who has come to study at the University of Heidelberg, falls in love with a servant at an inn.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 1954. Adventures by Richard Thorpe with Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer. The knight Lancelot falls in love with the wife of his liege, King Arthur.
Runtime: 111 min.
U.S. 1954. Musical by Richard Thorpe with Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Edmund Purdom. The story of a young girl belonging to a family where both physical culture and astrology are revered.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1953. Drama by Richard Thorpe with William Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Fernando Lamas. A young girl falls in love with a gangster whom her lawyer father has managed to get acquitted.
Runtime: 69 min.
U.S. 1953. Adventures by Richard Thorpe with Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth. On a whaling ship, two brothers come into conflict over a young girl.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 1952. Adventures by Richard Thorpe with Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason. A king, kidnapped on the eve of his coronation, is replaced by a look-alike.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1952. Drama by Richard Thorpe with James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey. Unjustly serving a prison sentence, a man invents a new gun.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1951. Adventures by Richard Thorpe with Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine. At the head of the Saxons, Ivanhoe succeeds in reinstalling King Richard the Lionheart on his throne.
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 1951. Crime drama by Richard Thorpe with Walter Pidgeon, Barry Sullivan, Ann Harding. A prominent lawyer, realizing that he has acquitted a criminal, decides to take justice into his own hands.
Runtime: 86 min.
U.S. 1950. Musical by Richard Thorpe with Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Vera-Ellen. The career and loves of two songwriters working together.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1950. Western by Richard Thorpe with Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru. A cowboy adopted by a rancher strives to make amends with his benefactor's son.
Runtime: 83 min.
U.S. 1950. Biography by Richard Thorpe with Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten. The life of a famous Italian tenor of the early twentieth century.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1949. Adventures by Richard Thorpe with Wallace Beery, Richard Conte, Marjorie Main. In Maryland in 1810, a young doctor confronts an outlaw.
U.S. 1949. Comedy by Richard Thorpe with Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks. A dog, whose owner has died, is threatened with death by a police officer.
Runtime: 76 min.
U.S. 1948. Dramatic comedy by Richard Thorpe with Jeanette MacDonald, Lloyd Nolan, Claude Jarman Jr.. An orphaned mountain boy restores the will to live in a singer embittered by the death of her family.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1948. War drama by Richard Thorpe with James Stewart, Spencer Tracy, Valentina Cortese. During the war, a journalist is tasked with bringing rubber supplies out of occupied Malaya.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1948. Musical by Richard Thorpe with Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban. A naval officer kidnaps a movie star who is shooting a film on a Pacific Island.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 1948. Musical by Richard Thorpe with Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor. The romantic tribulations of a father and his daughter.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 1946. Comedy by Richard Thorpe with Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban, Akim Tamiroff. A young girl switches places with her twin brother as a toreador.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1945. Musical by Richard Thorpe with Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Frances Gifford. After being abandoned by her rich husband on their wedding night, a champion swimmer falls in love with a war hero.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1945. Comedy by Richard Thorpe with Robert Walker, Keenan Wynn, Jean Porter.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1945. Comedy by Richard Thorpe with Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson. A hotel waiter misunderstands the sympathy shown to him by a visiting princess.
U.S. 1944. Police comedy by Richard Thorpe with William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson. A detective, visiting his home town, must investigate the mysterious murder of a young painter.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1944. Musical by Richard Thorpe with Van Johnson, June Allyson, Gloria de Haven. A sailor from a wealthy family anonymously grants all the wishes of two charming sisters known for their talents for dancing.
Runtime: 124 min.
U.S. 1943. Spy drama by Richard Thorpe with Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Basil Rathbone. In 1939, an American couple on their honeymoon in France becomes involved in an espionage case.
U.S. 1943. War drama by Richard Thorpe with Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell. Women work to care for the wounded during the Bataan campaign.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 1942. Adventures by Richard Thorpe with Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Bickford. Tarzan, the lord of the jungle, travels to America to find his adopted son who has been kidnapped.
Runtime: 70 min.
U.S. 1942. Drama by Richard Thorpe with Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Frank Morgan. At the beginning of the twentieth century in Africa, the difficulties of a colonist in love with an indigenous woman.
U.S. 1941. Adventures by Richard Thorpe with Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield. Tarzan, his wife and son are briefly victims of adventurers in search of a gold mine.
Runtime: 81 min.
U.S. 1939. Adventures by Richard Thorpe with Mickey Rooney, Rex Ingram, William Frawley.
Runtime: 91 min.
Runtime: 82 min.
U.S. 1938. Sports drama by Richard Thorpe with Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Maureen O'Sullivan.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1937. Comedy by Richard Thorpe with William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice.
Runtime: 105 min.
Runtime: 89 min.
U.S. 1934. Crime drama by Richard Thorpe with Claire Dodd, Clark Williams, Osgood Perkins.
Runtime: 66 min.
Runtime: 104 min.

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