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name: "Jesse Hibbs"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jesse-hibbs"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "11 January 1906"
died: "4 February 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T15:59:26.941286+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jesse Hibbs

Director. Born 11 January 1906 in Normal, Illinois, USA. Died 4 February 1985.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 11 January 1906, Normal, Illinois, USA
- **Died:** 4 February 1985

## Biography

Jesse Hibbs was an American film and television director. Born in Normal, Illinois, he attended the University of Southern California, where he played football as an All-American tackle and captained the 1928 national championship team. He had a brief professional career with the Chicago Bears before entering the film industry as an assistant director in the 1930s and 1940s.

Hibbs made his directorial debut with the 1953 football drama *The All American*. He directed nine feature films in the 1950s, many of them westerns for Universal-International, including several with Audie Murphy such as *To Hell and Back* (1955). From the late 1950s he worked primarily in television, directing episodes of series including *Perry Mason*, *Gunsmoke*, *Rawhide*, *The F.B.I.* and *The Fugitive*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Fugitive* (1963), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-fugitive-1963.md)

## Also known for

- *Winchester '73* (1950), Assistant Director
- *Perry Mason* (1957), Director
- *Gunsmoke* (1955), Director
- *The Wild Wild West* (1965), Director
- *To Hell and Back* (1955), Director
- *The Invaders* (1967), Director
- *A Stolen Life* (1946), Assistant Director
- *The Rifleman* (1958), Director

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