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Tom Gries
Born December 20, 1922 Died January 3, 1977 (aged 54 )Occupation(s ) Director, writer, producer Spouse Mary Eleanor Munday Children Jon Gries (son)Muggsy Spanier (stepfather)
Tom Gries (December 20, 1922 – January 3, 1977)[citation needed was an American TV and film director, writer, and film producer.
Life and career [ edit ]
Gries was born in Chicago , Illinois . His mother, Ruth, later remarried to jazz musician Muggsy Spanier , who became stepfather to Ruth's sons.[1] [full citation needed Educated at the Loyola Academy and Georgetown University .
Gries began working in TV in the 1950s as a writer and director. His work can be seen on such popular programs as Bronco Wanted: Dead or Alive The Westerner The Rifleman Checkmate ,Cain's Hundred ,East Side/West Side Route 66 Stoney Burke ,Combat! ,The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Honey West I Spy Mission: Impossible Batman Emmy Awards for his direction on East Side/West Side in 1964 and The Glass House in 1972.
In the cinema, Gries both wrote and directed the adventure film Serpent Island Sonny Tufts , and the Korean War film Hell's Horizon John Ireland . Between television directing gigs, Gries helmed The Girl in the Woods , a 1958 drama starring Forrest Tucker and Barton MacLane .
Gries both wrote the screenplay and directed the 1959 Jack Buetel western Mustang! masterpiece in either medium, the 1968 western Will Penny Charlton Heston in the title role. It was based on an episode of the TV series The Westerner that Gries wrote and directed in 1960, entitled "Line Camp".
In 1966, Gries created the popular action-adventure series The Rat Patrol .North African Campaign and episodes invariably pit the ragtag Rat Patrol — a four-man Allied force led by Christopher George as Sgt. Sam Troy — against the German Afrika Korps led by Captain Hans Dietrich, played by Eric Braeden (then still using his original name Hans Gudegast).
Gries subsequently made two other films with Heston: the 1969 gridiron drama Number One The Hawaiians James Michener 's sprawling 1959 novel, Hawaii 1966 film based on a section of the same book). In 1969, Gries co-wrote and directed Jim Brown , Burt Reynolds , and Raquel Welch in the controversial western 100 Rifles .
In the early 1970s Gries directed a variety of films, from the 1970 Jason Robards and Katharine Ross May–December romance drama Fools Earth II Gary Lockwood and Anthony Franciosa . In 1973, Gries directed the crime-thriller Lady Ice Donald Sutherland , Jennifer O'Neill , Robert Duvall and Eric Braeden . Gries, who had directed Charles Bronson in a 1961 episode of Cain's Hundred ("Dead Weight: Dave Braddock"), helmed two back-to-back Bronson films in 1975: Breakout Breakheart Pass
Gries' 1970s work failed, however, to earn the critical acclaim that welcomed Will Penny . The most successful of his later projects was Helter Skelter Vincent Bugliosi's 1974 true-crime book detailing the crimes and trials of the notorious Charles Manson Family.
During post-production on his final film The Greatest Muhammad Ali (in which Ali also played himself), Gries collapsed and died of a heart attack while playing tennis. He was 54 years old.
He is the father of actor and director Jon Gries (who appeared under the name Jon Francis in the film Will Penny as a child actor) and the brother of Buddy Charles a/k/a Charles Joseph Gries, who was a pop and jazz vocalist and pianist in Chicago.[2] [full citation needed
Filmography [ edit ]
The Bushwhackers
The Lusty Men
The Unexpected
Donovan's Brain
Boston Blackie
Your Favorite Story
The Cisco Kid
Hunters of the Deep
Serpent Island
King Dinosaur
Hell's Horizon
TV Reader's Digest
Science Fiction Theatre
Chevron Hall of Stars
Sky King
Science Fiction Theatre
Cavalcade of America
Wire Service
The Adventures of McGraw
Alcoa Theatre
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
The Court of Last Resort
State Trooper
Girl in the Woods
Tombstone Territory
Target
Bronco
Johnny Ringo
Mustang!
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Man and the Challenge
The Westerner
Lock Up
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Zane Grey Theatre
Bourbon Street Beat
Dante
The Rifleman
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
The Law and Mr Jones
Adventures in Paradise
Checkmate
Cain's Hundred
The Detectives
Death Valley Days
The Third Man
Route 66
Stoney Burke
The Travels of Jamie McPheeters
East Side/West Side
Combat!
The Reporter
The Defenders
The Doctors and the Nurses
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
For the People
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Man from UNCLE
The Trials of O'Brien
Honey West
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
A Man Called Shenandoah
Batman
The Rat Patrol
The Monroes
Mission: Impossible
The Felony Squad
The Rounders
I Spy
Garrison's Gorillas
Will Penny
100 Rifles
Number One
The Hawaiians
Fools
Earth II
The Glass House
Journey Through Rosebud
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
The Connection
Call to Danger
Lady Ice
The Migrants
QB VII
The Healers
Breakout
Breakheart Pass
Helter Skelter
Hunter
The Greatest
References [ edit ]
^ Time Magazine , Milestones, February 27, 1950.
^ Chicago Tribune , February 15, 1967 and December 21, 2008
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