Roderick Thorp

Roderick Thorp was born on Sep 01, 1936 in USA. Roderick Thorp's big-screen debut came with The Detective directed by Gordon Douglas in 1968. Roderick Thorp is known for Live Free or Die Hard directed by Len Wiseman, Bruce Willis stars as John McClane and Timothy Olyphant as Thomas Gabriel. The upcoming new movie Roderick Thorp plays is A Good Day to Die Hard which will be released on Feb 14, 2013.

Novelist, short-story writer, teacher -- and private detective. He wrote two novels that would be turned into theatrical films, "The Detective" (1966), which became Le Détective (1968); and "Nothing Lasts Forever" (1979), which became Piège de cristal (1988). His 1986 novel "Rainbow Drive" was later produced as a made-for-TV movie. He taught literature and lectured on creative writing at schools and colleges in New Jersey and California, and wrote pieces for newspapers and magazines. Earlier, as a young college graduate, he had worked at a detective agency owned by his father.