Tom Gries
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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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Fotos
Películas (27)
The Greatest
1977 · Director
Helter Skelter
1976 · Director
Breakheart Pass
1975 · Director
Breakout
1975 · Director
The Healers
1974 · Director
The Migrants
1974 · Director, Producer
Lady Ice
1973 · Director
The Connection
1973 · Director
Call to Danger
1973 · Director
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
1972 · Producer, Writer
Journey Through Rosebud
1972 · Director
The Glass House
1972 · Director
Earth II
1971 · Director
Fools
1970 · Director
The Hawaiians
1970 · Director
Number One
1969 · Director
100 Rifles
1969 · Director, Screenplay
Will Penny
1967 · Director, Writer
Mustang!
1959 · Screenplay
Girl in the Woods
1958 · Director
The Last Stop
1956 · Director
Hell's Horizon
1955 · Writer, Director
King Dinosaur
1955 · Screenplay
Serpent Island
1954 · Director, Writer
Donovan's Brain
1953 · Producer
The Lusty Men
1952 · Associate Producer
The Bushwhackers
1951 · Screenplay
Series (43)
Helter Skelter
1976 · Director
QB VII
1974 · Director
Mission: Impossible
1966 · Director
Felony Squad
1966 · Director
The Rat Patrol
1966 · Writer, Director, Creator
The Monroes
1966 · Director
The Rounders
1966 · Director
Batman
1966 · Director
Honey West
1965 · Director
I Spy
1965 · Director
For the People
1965 · Director
Reporter
1964 · Director, Writer
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Director
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964 · Director
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963 · Director
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · Director
East Side/West Side
1963 · Director
Combat!
1962 · Director
Stoney Burke
1962 · Director
Cain's Hundred
1961 · Director
The Defenders
1961 · Director
Route 66
1960 · Director
The Westerner
1960 · Writer, Director
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960 · Story
Checkmate
1960 · Director
Assignment: Underwater
1960 · Writer
The Detectives
1959 · Director
Adventures in Paradise
1959 · Director
Johnny Ringo
1959 · Director, Writer
Lock-Up
1959 · Writer
The Man and the Challenge
1959 · Director
The Rifleman
1958 · Writer
Bronco
1958 · Writer
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · Writer
Tombstone Territory
1957 · Director
The Court of Last Resort
1957 · Director
Alcoa Theatre
1957 · Director
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957 · Director
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Director
State Trooper
1956 · Director
Science Fiction Theatre
1955 · Writer, Director
TV Reader's Digest
1955 · Director
The Unexpected
1952 · Writer