Tom Gries

Realização, Escrito por, Produção

20 de dezembro de 1922 — 3 de janeiro de 1977 (54 anos)
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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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Filmes e Séries no Plex

  • O Homem da Carabina
    O Homem da Carabina5 temporadas
  • Fuga Audaciosa
    Fuga Audaciosa1975
  • Wanted: Dead or Alive
    Wanted: Dead or Alive3 temporadas
  • Rota 66
    Rota 664 temporadas
  • Death Valley Days
    Death Valley Days18 temporadas
  • A Mulher de Gelo
    A Mulher de Gelo1973
  • The Bushwhackers
    The Bushwhackers1951
  • The Westerner
    The Westerner1 temporada

Conhecido Por

  • O Comboio do Inferno
    O Comboio do Inferno1975
  • ...E o Bravo Ficou Só
    ...E o Bravo Ficou Só1967
  • Fuga Audaciosa
    Fuga Audaciosa1975
  • Idílio Selvagem
    Idílio Selvagem1952
  • Batman
    Batman3 temporadas
  • Donovan's Brain
    Donovan's Brain1953
  • The Greatest
    The Greatest1977
  • O Senhor das Ilhas
    O Senhor das Ilhas1970
  • O Sistema
    O Sistema1972
  • QB VII
    QB VII2 episódios
  • Number One
    Number One1969
  • A Mulher de Gelo
    A Mulher de Gelo1973
  • Wanted: Dead or Alive
    Wanted: Dead or Alive3 temporadas
  • Rei Dinossauro
    Rei Dinossauro1955
  • Terra 2
    Terra 21971
  • The Rat Patrol
    The Rat Patrol2 temporadas
  • Missão Impossível
    Missão Impossível7 temporadas
  • Combat!
    Combat!5 temporadas
  • The Bushwhackers
    The Bushwhackers1951
  • Viagem ao Fundo do Mar
    Viagem ao Fundo do Mar4 temporadas

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