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John Lee Thompson (1 August 1914 – 30 August 2002), better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an English film director, active in England and Hollywood. Description above from the Wikipedia article J. Lee Thompson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. More details at TMDb
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Cape Fear: Directed by J. Lee Thompson. With Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin. A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.
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J Lee Thompson died in Sooke, British Columbia, Canada on 30 August 2002. Lee Thompson accepted the reality that as a feature director he worked within a commercial framework, and throughout his career serious films are interspersed with entertainments.
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with J. Lee Thompson, the veteran, British-born director of The Guns of Navarone.I found Lee to be a truly wonderful person to chat with - very easy going and likable, with more than his share of funny and interesting stories to tell, amassed over a life-long career that spans more than sixty years.
A touring variety troupe, the "Dinky Doos" are in financial trouble. An encounter with three strangers - Inigo Jollifant (a romantic, song-writing ex-schoolmaster), Miss Trant (a philanthropic spinster in search of adventure), and Jess Oakroyd (a down to earth, practical man recently made redundant from his job) leads to a change of fortune.
