J. Lee Thompson

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

1. 1
   The Guns of Navarone

   1961 · United Kingdom / United States · war, adventure, action

   Oscar Best Picture nominee 1961 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

   0.562 citations
2. 2Ice Cold in Alex
   Ice Cold in Alex

   1958 · United Kingdom · war

   Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

   0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 46 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

• 1951Murder Without Crime
• 1953The Yellow Balloon
• 1954For Better, for Worse
• 1954The Weak and the Wicked
• 1955An Alligator Named Daisy
• 1955As Long as They're Happy
• 1956The Good Companions
• 1956Yield to the Night
• 1957Woman in a Dressing Gown
• 1958Ice Cold in Alex
• 1959No Trees in the Street
• 1959North West Frontier
• 1959Tiger Bay
• 1960I Aim at the Stars
• 1961The Guns of Navarone
• 1962Cape Fear
• 1962Taras Bulba
• 1963Kings of the Sun
• 1964What a Way to Go!
• 1965John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
• 1965Return from the Ashes
• 1966Eye of the Devil
• 1969Before Winter Comes
• 1969Mackenna's Gold
• 1969The Chairman
• 1970Country Dance
• 1972A Great American Tragedy
• 1972Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
• 1973Battle for the Planet of the Apes
• 1974Huckleberry Finn
• 1975The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
• 1976St. Ives
• 1977The White Buffalo
• 1978The Greek Tycoon
• 1979The Passage
• 1980Caboblanco
• 1981Happy Birthday to Me
• 198310 to Midnight
• 1984The Ambassador
• 1984The Evil That Men Do
• 1985King Solomon's Mines
• 1986Firewalker
• 1986Murphy's Law
• 1987Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
• 1988Messenger of Death
• 1989Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects