Jerry Thorpe

Richard Jerome Thorpe (August 29, 1926 – September 25, 2018) was an American television-and-film director and producer.[1] Actor and director Richard Thorpe was his father. Thorpe served as the executive producer of 33 episodes of The Untouchables (starring Robert Stack) during the series's second season (1960–61). Thorpe also served as executive producer of Harry O, the 1973-75 David Janssen TV series. Thorpe won an Emmy award for his work on an episode of Kung Fu. In 2003, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him and his father. Thorpe died in Santa Barbara, California, at the age of 92 from natural causes. He was buried at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.

Works

One West Waikiki

One West Waikiki is an American crime/drama TV show set in Hawaii which ran from 1994-1996. It starred Cheryl Ladd, Richard Burgi and Kayla Blake and was nominated for a Prime Time Emmy in 1995.

Release Date: 1994-08-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 8

P.S. I Luv U

P.S. I Luv U is an American crime drama series. The title derived from the phone number of fictitious Palm Security and Investigations, which was 774-5888, which can be reached by dialing "PSI-LUVU" on a standard North American telephone.

Release Date: 1991-09-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

Our House

Our House is an American television drama series that aired on NBC for two seasons from September 11, 1986 to May 8, 1988. The series centers on the Witherspoon family and the challenges they face adjusting to life with three generations living in the same house.

Release Date: 1986-09-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 9

Blood & Orchids

Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might be blamed, because she was white, but do so anyway. Almost immediately everyone suspects they are to blame. When Hester's politically influential mother Doris finds out what really happened, she fearing a scandal, forces her daughter to blame the men who rescued her, of raping and beating her. It's up to detective Curt Maddox, to find out what really happened, and their Hawaiian lawyer to do the impossible. Convince a white court of law, that they are innocent.

Release Date: 1986-02-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

Blood & Orchids

Blood & Orchids is a 1986 made-for-TV crime-drama film. Written for the screen by Norman Katkov, it was an adaptation of Katkov's own novel which, in turn, was inspired by the 1932 Massie Trial in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was typical of many crime dramas produced during the period.

Release Date: 1986-02-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 2

Dirty Work

An unsold TV pilot starring Kerrie Keane and Louis Giambalvo.

Release Date: 1985-06-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Happy Endings

A teenager postpones his determination to become a songwriter so that he can keep his younger brother and two sisters together as a family following the death of their parents.

Release Date: 1983-12-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.

Release Date: 1981-12-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 52

American Dream

Telling the story of humble beginnings and delving into each entrepreneur's journey. These ambitious individuals made their vision a reality and give hope that the dream is still possible.

Release Date: 1981-04-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

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.

Release Date: 1980-04-28

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1

A Question of Love

A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.

Release Date: 1978-11-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 8

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."

Release Date: 1978-04-14

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1

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.

Release Date: 1978-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 5

The Possessed

A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.

Release Date: 1977-05-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 19

I Want to Keep My Baby!

A 15-year-old girl becomes pregnant by her boyfriend and decides to keep the baby and raise her on her own, instead of initially choosing abortion at the insistence of her boyfriend, or raising the baby at home with her meddling mother.

Release Date: 1976-11-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

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.

Release Date: 1976-05-20

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Harry O

After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house... The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe.

Release Date: 1974-09-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 10

The Healers

The director of an urban medical center faces various major problems during the course of running the hospital.

Release Date: 1974-05-22

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

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.

Release Date: 1974-02-03

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

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.

Release Date: 1973-11-03

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Kung Fu

The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.

Release Date: 1972-10-14

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 62

Vote Count: 211

Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon

After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.

Release Date: 1972-02-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 25

Crosscurrent

Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain

Release Date: 1971-11-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Lock, Stock and Barrel

A young frontier couple elope, are chased by the girl's father and brothers, join up with an escaped convict and get mixed up with a charlatan preacher.

Release Date: 1971-09-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

The Interns

The Interns is an American medical drama series that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1971. It was based on the 1962 film The Interns and the 1964 sequel The New Interns.

Release Date: 1970-09-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Company of Killers

A gunman working for a crime ring is hunted by both the police and his employers after a cop is murdered.

Release Date: 1970-08-26

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1

Dial Hot Line

The head of a psychiatric telephone hotline inspires his associates to get out of the office and into the streets to help people with psychiatric problems.

Release Date: 1970-03-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".

Release Date: 1968-09-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 138

Day of the Evil Gun

Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!

Release Date: 1968-03-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 25

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.

Release Date: 1967-01-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 7

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.

Release Date: 1958-10-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 4

The Texan

The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.

Release Date: 1958-09-29

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960, and originally served as part of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. Its original network title was The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the first season, and The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Presents The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the following seasons. It was the successor to the classic comedy, I Love Lucy, and featured the same major cast members. The production schedule avoided the grind of a regular weekly series. Desilu produced the show, which was mostly filmed at their Los Angeles studios with occasional on-location shoots at Lake Arrowhead, Las Vegas and Sun Valley, Idaho. CBS reran the show under the "Lucy-Desi" title during the summers of 1962-1967, after which it went into syndication.

Release Date: 1957-11-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 12

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.

Release Date: 1955-10-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

Take the High Ground!

Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he really the man he is often described as? His fellow instructor, and friend helps him to face the ghosts of his past experiences in Korea. One night in a bar across the border in Juarez, Mexico, Sgt. Ryan meets a lady who begins to turn his life around. Will this be enough to help him deal with the past? Or will he continue to be so hard on his troops?

Release Date: 1953-10-30

Department: Directing

Job: Assistant Director

Vote Count: 11

Nostradamus and the Queen

An elderly Catherine de Medici reflects back on how the prophecies of Nostradamus accurately predicted the fates of her husband, her three sons and herself.

Release Date: 1953-09-29

Department: Directing

Job: Assistant Director

The Band Wagon

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

Release Date: 1953-08-07

Department: Directing

Job: Assistant Director

Vote Count: 209

The Bad and the Beautiful

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

Release Date: 1952-12-25

Department: Directing

Job: Assistant Director

Vote Count: 255

The Wild North

In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.

Release Date: 1952-01-28

Department: Directing

Job: Assistant Director

Vote Count: 8