Gender: Male
Born: 24th February 1896
Died: 1st May 1991
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: A Date With Judy,
Above Suspicion,
All the Brothers Were Valiant,
Apache Trail,
Athena,
Barnacle Bill,
Big Jack,
Black Hand,
Carbine Williams,
Challenge to Lassie,
Cheating Cheaters,
College Days,
Cry 'Havoc',
Dangerous Number,
Double Wedding,
Fiesta,
Follow the Boys,
Fun in Acapulco,
Green Eyes,
Her Highness and the Bellboy,
How the West Was Won,
It's a Big Country,
Ivanhoe,
Jailhouse Rock,
Joe Smith, American,
Josselyn's wife,
Killers of Kilimanjaro,
Knights of the Round Table,
Last of the Pagans,
Love Is a Headache,
Malaya,
Man-Proof,
Murder at Dawn,
Murder at Dawn,
Murder on the Campus,
Night Must Fall,
On an Island with You,
Rage in Heaven,
Secret of the Chateau,
Strange Wives,
Tarzan's New York Adventure,
Tarzan's Secret Treasure,
Tarzan Escapes,
Tarzan Finds a Son!,
Tarzan the Ape Man,
Ten Thousand Bedrooms,
That Funny Feeling,
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
The Adventures of Quentin Durward,
The Bad Man,
The Crowd Roars,
The Earl of Chicago,
The Fatal Warning,
The First Hundred Years,
The First Night,
The Girl Who Had Everything,
The Golden Head,
The Great Caruso,
The Honeymoon Machine,
The Horizontal Lieutenant,
The House of the Seven Hawks,
The King Murder,
The King of the Kongo,
The Last Challenge,
The Lone Defender,
The Meddlin' Stranger,
The Prisoner of Zenda,
The Prodigal,
The Scorpio Letters,
The Student Prince,
The Sun Comes Up,
The Thin Man Goes Home,
The Toy Wife,
The Truth About Spring,
The Unknown Man,
The Utah Kid,
The Vanishing West,
The Voice of Bugle Ann,
This Time for Keeps,
Three Hearts for Julia,
Three Little Words,
Three Loves Has Nancy,
Thrill of a Romance,
Tip on a dead jockey,
Twenty Mule Team,
Two Girls and a Sailor,
Vengeance Valley,
Vultures of the Sea,
What Next, Corporal Hargrove?,
White Cargo,
WyomingRichard Thorpe (February 24, 1896 – May 1, 1991) was an American film director.
Born Rollo Smolt Thorpe in Hutchinson, Kansas, he began his entertainment career performing in vaudeville and onstage. In 1921 he began in motion pictures as an actor and directed his first silent film in 1923. He went on to direct more than one hundred and eighty films. The first full length motion picture he directed for MGM was Last of the Pagans (1935) starring Ray Mala. After directing The Last Challenge in 1967, he retired from the film industry. He died in Palm Springs, California in 1991.
Thorpe is also known as the original director of The Wizard of Oz. He was fired after two weeks of shooting, because it was felt that his scenes did not have the right air of fantasy about them. Thorpe notoriously gave Judy Garland a blonde wig and cutesy "baby-doll" makeup that made her look like a girl in her late teens rather than an innocent Kansas farm girl of about thirteen. Both makeup and wig were discarded at the suggestion of George Cukor, who was brought in temporarily. Stills from Thorpe's work on the film survive today.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Thorpe has a star on the
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