---
name: "Jim Thompson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jim-thompson"
fi1m_id: "jim-thompson"
imdb_id: "nm0860292"
tmdb_id: 3335
wikidata_id: "Q433800"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "27 September 1906"
died: "7 April 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-20T09:13:29.177411+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."
---

# Jim Thompson

## Identity

Jim Thompson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jim-thompson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jim-thompson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0860292
- **TMDB ID:** 3335
- **Wikidata ID:** Q433800
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thompson_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433800, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860292/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3335

Writer. Born 27 September 1906 in Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory, USA. Died 7 April 1977.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 27 September 1906, Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory, USA
- **Died:** 7 April 1977
- **Active:** 1957–1993
- **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 93 (1), 1990s 78 (2)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 2, Mystery 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $15m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thompson_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433800, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860292/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3335

## Streaming the US now

- **MUBI:** [*Paths of Glory*](https://film.one/film/paths-of-glory.md) (93)

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## Biography

Jim Thompson was an American novelist and screenwriter. Born James Myers Thompson on 27 September 1906 in Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory, he wrote more than thirty novels, most of them original paperbacks published from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s.

His best-known works include the crime novels *The Killer Inside Me* (1952), *The Getaway* (1959) and *The Grifters* (1963). Thompson received a dialogue credit on Stanley Kubrick’s *The Killing* (1956) and a joint screenplay credit on *Paths of Glory* (1957). He was blacklisted in the early 1950s for his leftist politics.

Thompson died in Los Angeles on 7 April 1977. Many of his novels were adapted for film after his death, including *The Grifters* (1990).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, okhistory.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Fallen Angels* (1993), Fi1m 72, Story — [page](https://film.one/tv/fallen-angels-1993.md)
- *The Grifters* (1990), Fi1m 84, Novel — [page](https://film.one/film/the-grifters.md)
- *Paths of Glory* (1957), Fi1m 93, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/paths-of-glory.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Killer Inside Me* (2010), Novel
- *This World, Then the Fireworks* (1997), Short Story
- *Hit Me* (1996), Novel
- *The Getaway* (1994), Novel
- *Fallen Angels* (1993), series, Story — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/fallen-angels-1993.md)
- *After Dark, My Sweet* (1990), Novel
- *The Grifters* (1990), Novel — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-grifters.md)
- *The Kill-Off* (1989), Novel
- *Coup de Torchon* (1981), Novel
- *Serie Noire* (1979), Novel
- *The Killer Inside Me* (1976), Novel
- *Farewell, My Lovely* (1975), as Mr. Grayle
- *The Getaway* (1972), Novel
- *Paths of Glory* (1957), Screenplay — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/paths-of-glory.md)
- *The Killing* (1956), Dialogue
- *Pop. 1280*, Novel
- *The Getaway*, Novel

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