# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roderick-thorp
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:54:38.456Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roderick-thorp"
name: "Roderick Thorp"
slug: "roderick-thorp"
description: "Roderick Mayne Thorp Jr. was an American novelist specializing mainly in police procedurals and crime novels. His novel The Detective was adapted into a film of the same name in 1968. Thorp is also known for its sequel, the bestselling novel Nothing Lasts Forever, which later served as the basis for the film Die Hard. Thus Thorp became a creator of the entire media franchise of the same name. Two other Thorp novels, Rainbow Drive and Devlin, were also adapted into TV movies."
tagline: "American writer (1936–1999)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/Roderick_thorp.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-09-01"
deathDate: "1999-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.95
  momentum:             3.393316195372752
  historical:           15.59752133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0861636/"
    handle:    "nm0861636"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "رودريك ثورب (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رادریک ترپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Родърик Торп"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roderick Thorp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ڕۆدریک تۆرپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roderick Thorp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_Thorp"
    title: "Roderick Thorp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_Thorp"
    title: "Roderick Thorp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%BE"
    title: "رادریک ترپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_Thorp"
    title: "Roderick Thorp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_Thorp"
    title: "Roderick Thorp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ロデリック・ソープ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roderick Thorp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Торп, Родерик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Родерік Торп"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7670"
    title: "Roderick Thorp"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump