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Director, Screenwriter Born: August 1, 1914 in Bristol, Somerset, England Death: August 30, 2002 in Sooke, British Columbia, Canada Biography:Before reaching his twentieth birthday, British film director "J. Lee Thompson" was an established repertory actor and playwright. He entered films as an actor in 1934, then switched to screenwriting (usually in collaboration) five years later. Lee-Thompson's directorial debut was "Murder Without Crime" (1950), but it was his second picture, the noirish "The Yellow Balloon" (1951), which established him as a bankable director of action programmers. In 1958, Lee-Thompson introduced Hayley Mills to moviegoers in the taut melodrama "Tiger Bay" (1958). After 1960's "I Aim at the Stars," an historically questionable Werner Von Braun biopic, Lee-Thompson was given his most prestigious directing assignment to date: The international moneyspinner The Guns of Navarone (1961). Henceforth all of Lee-Thompson's projects would be expensive A-pictures, even those with B-story values and artistic aspirations like... Full Biography
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