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    Birthday: February 24, 1996

    A former actor, Richard Thorpe switched to film directing in 1923, concentrating on cheap Westerns, crime films, and two-reel comedies. From 1933 through 1935, Thorpe was principal director (sometimes the only director) at the Poverty Row Chesterfield/Invincible studios, where his frugal habit of filming every scene in only one take served him well. He moved to MGM in ...more
    • 1952
    • Directors Guild of America
    • Best Director
    • Ivanhoe
    • nom


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