J. Lee Thompson - biography

“’Battle For The Planet Of The Apes’, was just a film for kids and didn’t have any deep meaning.”

“I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don’t even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn’t want to use it.”

“Like some of my other movies, ‘Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes’ is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.”

J. Lee Thompson directed the following films:
The Yellow Balloon (1953)
For Better, for Worse (1954)
The Weak and the Wicked (1954)
An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)
As Long as They’re Happy (1955)
Yield to the Night (1956)
The Good Companions (1957)
Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957)
Ice-Cold in Alex (1958)
No Trees in the Street (1959)
North West Frontier (1959)
Tiger Bay (1959)
Wernher von Braun (1960)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Cape Fear (1962)
Taras Bulba (1962)
Kings of the Sun (1963)
What a Way to Go! (1964)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965)
Eye of the Devil (1966)
Before Winter Comes (1969)
Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
The Chairman (1969)
Country Dance (1970)
The Same Skin (1970)
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
St. Ives (1976)
The White Buffalo (1977)
The Greek Tycoon (1978)
The Passage (1979)
Caboblanco (1980)
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
10 to Midnight (1983)
The Ambassador (1984)
The Evil That Men Do (1984)
King Solomon’s Mines (1985)
Murphy’s Law (1986)
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
Messenger of Death (1988)
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)


J. Lee Thompson contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
For Them That Trespass (1949)
No Place for Jennifer (1950)
The Yellow Balloon (1953)
For Better, for Worse (1954)
The Weak and the Wicked (1954)
10 to Midnight (1983)
Future Hunters (1986)
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)