Jerry Thorpe

{{short description|American film director}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}}

{{Infobox person

|name = Jerry Thorpe

|birth_name = Richard Jerome Thorpe

|birth_date = {{birth date|1926|8|29}}

|birth_place = Los Angeles, California

|death_date = {{death date and age|2018|9|25|1926|8|29}}

|death_place = Santa Barbara, California, U.S.

|burial_place = Desert Memorial Park
{{nowrap|Cathedral City, California, U.S.}}

|occupation = Film director, television producer, writer

|years_active = 1956–1990

|parents = Richard Thorpe

}}

Richard Jerome Thorpe (August 29, 1926 – September 25, 2018) was an American television-and-film director and producer.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/114137/Jerry-Thorpe/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423025612/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/114137/Jerry-Thorpe/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-04-23|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Hal Erickson|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|date=2014|title=Jerry Thorpe}} Actor and director Richard Thorpe was his father.

Thorpe served as the executive producer of 33 episodes of The Untouchables (starring Robert Stack) during the series's second season (1960–61). Thorpe also served as executive producer of Harry O, the 1973-75 David Janssen TV series. {{IMDb name|0861679}}{{Unreliable source?|date=August 2021}}

Thorpe won an Emmy award for his work on an episode of Kung Fu. In 2003, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him and his father.{{Cite web|url=http://www.palmspringswalkofstars.com/web-storage/Stars/Stars+dedicated+by+date.pdf|date=May 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418002837/http://www.palmspringswalkofstars.com/web-storage/Stars/Stars+dedicated+by+date.pdf|archive-date=April 18, 2019|url-status=usurped|title=The Brightest Stars from New-York to Los Angeles}}

Thorpe died in Santa Barbara, California, at the age of 92 from natural causes.{{Cite web|url=https://obituaries.desertsun.com/amp/obituaries/thedesertsun/190441572|title=Jerry Thorpe 1926 - 2018 - Obituary|website=obituariesf.desertsun.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jerry-thorpe-dead-kung-fu-director-producer-desilu-executive-was-92-1151602|title=Jerry Thorpe, Emmy-Winning Director and Producer of 'Kung Fu,' Dies at 92 | Hollywood Reporter|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=October 11, 2018}} He was buried at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.