About
| Birth Name: | Lee Thompson, John |
| Birth Notes: | 1 August 1914, Bristol, England, UK |
| Nicknames: | Mighty Mouse |
| Family: | * 'Penny Thompson' (c. 1962 - 30 August 2002) (his death); 2 children * 'Florence (Bill) Bailey' (? - ?); 2 children * 'Lucille Kelly' (? - present) * Joan Henry (? - ?) (divorced) |
Filmography
| 10 to Midnight (1983) |
| Cape Fear (1962) |
| Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) |
| Eye of the Devil (1966) |
| Firewalker (1986) |
| Happy Birthday to Me (1981) |
| King Solomon's Mines (1985) |
| The Evil That Men Do (1984) |
| The Greek Tycoon (1978) |
| The Guns of Navarone (1961) |
| All Eyes on Sharon Tate (1967) as Himself - interviewee |
| An Alligator Named Daisy (1955) |
| As Long as They're Happy (1955) |
| Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) |
| Before Winter Comes (1969) |
| Caboblanco (1980) |
| Country Dance (1970) |
| Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987) |
| For Better, for Worse (1954) |
| Huckleberry Finn (1974) |
| Ice-Cold in Alex (1958) |
| John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965) |
| Kings of the Sun (1963) |
| Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989) |
| Mackenna's Gold (1969) |
| Messenger of Death (1988) |
| Murder Without Crime (1950) |
| Murphy's Law (1986) |
| No Trees in the Street (1959) |
| North West Frontier (1959) |
| Return from the Ashes (1965) |
| St. Ives (1976) |
| Taras Bulba (1962) |
| The Ambassador (1984) |
| The Chairman (1969) |
| The Good Companions (1957) |
| The Passage (1979) |
| The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) |
| The Weak and the Wicked (1954) |
| The White Buffalo (1977) |
| The Yellow Balloon (1953) |
| Tiger Bay (1959) |
| Wernher von Braun (1960) |
| What a Way to Go! (1964) |
| Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) |
| Yield to the Night (1956) |
Trivia
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* Children: daughter Lesley and son Peter Lee-Thompson. * He was nicknamed "Mighty Mouse" by Gregory Peck during the filming of The Guns of Navarone (1961). The original director was fired and Thompson was hired on short notice, but managed to smooth things out and the film was a tremendous hit. * He was originally going to direct Planet of the Apes (1968) movie and co-owned the rights with producer Arthur Jacobs, but had to back out as he was busy working on Mackenna's Gold (1969), a troubled production that went over budget and way over schedule. He did, however, go on to direct Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). * Gregory Peck once said there were only four directors he could trust to tell him whether or not he was faking his performance: Alfred Hitchcock , George Cukor, William Wyler and Thompson. |
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