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Tom Gries
Director, Writer, Producer, Additional Credits
Born December 20, 1922Died January 3, 1977 (54 years)
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Thomas S. "Tom" Gries (20 December 1922; Chicago, Illinois – 3 January 1977; Pacific Palisades, California) was an American TV and film director, writer and producer.
Educated at the Loyola Academy and Georgetown University, Gries began working in TV in the 1950s as a writer and director, on such programmes as Bronco,"Rat Patrol", Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Westerner, The Rifleman, East Side/West Side, Mission: Impossible, Route 66, Batman and I Spy. He won Emmy Awards for his direction on East Side/West Side in 1964 and The Glass House in 1972.
In the cinema, Gries directed some low-budget movies in the 1950s before concentrating his efforts more on TV. In the late 1960s, he wrote and directed what is generally acknowledged to be his greatest work in either medium, the western Will Penny, which starred Charlton Heston and was released in 1968. It was based on an episode of the TV series The Westerner that Gries wrote and directed in 1960, entitled "Line Camp". Gries subsequently made two other films with Heston, the much less successful Number One, and The Hawaiians, and directed several other films with other high profile actors such as Burt Reynolds and Charles Bronson into the 1970s, though they failed to reach the critical approval that Will Penny received. The most successful of his later works was Helter Skelter, made in 1976, which was a TV film based on the notorious Charles Manson Family.
During post-production on his final film, The Greatest (1977), a biography on boxer Muhammed Ali (in which Ali also played himself), Tom Gries collapsed and died of a heart attack while playing tennis. He was 54 years old.
He is the father of actor/director Jon Gries (who appeared under the name Jon Francis in Will Penny as a child actor).
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Thomas S. "Tom" Gries (20 December 1922; Chicago, Illinois – 3 January 1977; Pacific Palisades, California) was an American TV and film director, writer and producer.
Educated at the Loyola Academy and Georgetown University, Gries began working in TV in the 1950s as a writer and director, on such programmes as Bronco,"Rat Patrol", Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Westerner, The Rifleman, East Side/West Side, Mission: Impossible, Route 66, Batman and I Spy. He won Emmy Awards for his direction on East Side/West Side in 1964 and The Glass House in 1972.
In the cinema, Gries directed some low-budget movies in the 1950s before concentrating his efforts more on TV. In the late 1960s, he wrote and directed what is generally acknowledged to be his greatest work in either medium, the western Will Penny, which starred Charlton Heston and was released in 1968. It was based on an episode of the TV series The Westerner that Gries wrote and directed in 1960, entitled "Line Camp". Gries subsequently made two other films with Heston, the much less successful Number One, and The Hawaiians, and directed several other films with other high profile actors such as Burt Reynolds and Charles Bronson into the 1970s, though they failed to reach the critical approval that Will Penny received. The most successful of his later works was Helter Skelter, made in 1976, which was a TV film based on the notorious Charles Manson Family.
During post-production on his final film, The Greatest (1977), a biography on boxer Muhammed Ali (in which Ali also played himself), Tom Gries collapsed and died of a heart attack while playing tennis. He was 54 years old.
He is the father of actor/director Jon Gries (who appeared under the name Jon Francis in Will Penny as a child actor).
Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Gries, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
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| 1976 | Hunter (1977) (TV Series) |
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| 1976 | Helter Skelter (TV Series) |
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| 1974 | QB VII (TV Series) |
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| 1967 | Garrison's Gorillas (TV Series) |
| 1966 | Mission: Impossible (TV Series) |
| 1966 | The Felony Squad (TV Series) |
| 1966 | The Rat Patrol (TV Series) |
| 1966 | The Monroes (TV Series) |
| 1966 | Batman (TV Series) |
| 1965 | Trials of O'Brien (TV Series) |
| 1965 | Honey West (TV Series) |
| 1965 | I Spy (TV Series) |
| 1965 | A Man Called Shenandoah (TV Series) |
| 1965 | For the People (TV Series) |
| 1964 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) |
| 1964 | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) |
| 1963 | Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) |
| 1963 | East Side/West Side (TV Series) |
| 1963 | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (TV Series) |
| 1962 | Combat! (TV Series) |
| 1962 | Stoney Burke (TV Series) |
| 1962 | The Doctors and the Nurses (TV Series) |
| 1961 | Father of the Bride (TV Series) |
| 1961 | Cain's Hundred (TV Series) |
| 1961 | The Defenders (TV Series) |
| 1960 | The Law and Mr. Jones (TV Series) |
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| 1960 | The Westerner (TV Series) |
| 1960 | Checkmate (TV Series) |
| 1959 | The Detectives (1959) (TV Series) |
| 1959 | Adventures in Paradise (TV Series) |
| 1959 | Johnny Ringo (TV Series) |
| 1959 | The Man and the Challenge (TV Series) |
| 1957 | Tombstone Territory (TV Series) |
| 1957 | Alcoa Theatre (TV Series) |
| 1957 | The Court of Last Resort (TV Series) |
| 1957 | Meet McGraw (TV Series) |
| 1956 | Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) |
| 1956 | Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) |
| 1956 | State Trooper (TV Series) |
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| 1955 | Science Fiction Theatre (TV Series) |
| 1955 | Stage 7 (TV Series) |
| 1955 | TV Reader's Digest (TV Series) |
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| 1952 | Cavalcade of America (TV Series) |