J Lee Thompson

The American director J. Lee Thompson was born in Bristol (Great Britain) in 1914 and died on August 30, 2002, as a result of a cardiac arrest, at the age of 88. He spent his last days in retirement in Canada. Although his name was unknown to the general public, he was one of those craftsmen, of which there are fewer and fewer, capable of turning a conventional script into a solid cinematographic work. As an example, his two best-known titles: The Guns of Navarone (1961) and  Cape Terror  (1962), both starring Gregory Peck . Late in his career, he joined actor Charles Bronson in films like Murphy’s Law . He is also responsible forThe Conquest of the Planet of the Apes or Mackenna’s Gold .