Pat Jackson

导演, 编剧, 演员, 制片人

1916年3月26日 — 2011年6月3日 (95年)
Patrick Douglas Selmes Jackson (26 March 1916 – 3 June 2011) was an English film and television director.

Born in Eltham, to a formerly affluent family which was severely affected by the Wall Street Crash in 1929, and his father's long-term illness and early death ending Jackson's formal education. He joined the GPO Film Unit on his 17th birthday as a messenger boy after his mother persuaded her MP, Sir Kingsley Wood, then also postmaster general, to find work for her son. Rising to production assistant, he was part of the crew for the short film Night Mail (1936). The voice narrating the poem by W.H. Auden ("This is the Night Mail crossing the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order.") was Jackson himself. He directed a number of documentaries, the first being The Horsey Mail (1938) about the rural postal service in Suffolk. The First Days (1939), co-directed by Harry Watt and Humphrey Jennings, was the first of the wartime documentaries, in this instance concerned with the 'Phoney War' period.

Jackson's debut feature film was Western Approaches (1944), a semi-documentary war film for what was now the Ministry of Information's Crown Film Unit. For what became a three-year project, Jackson took on the writing, direction, editing and casting (of non-professional actors) a film about merchant seamen. Featuring an extended period on location at sea, the lifeboat sequences alone took six-months to complete.

After the war, Jackson spent three years in Hollywood under contract to MGM, although the only film he directed during this period was Shadow on the Wall (1950), based on the novel Death in the Doll's House by Lawrence P. Bachmann and Hannah Leessuch. His film Encore (1951) was in competition at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival . White Corridors (1951), a semi-documentary drama about a hospital in the regions, was critically well received at the time. What a Carve Up! (1961), a film in the old dark house genre, was the most commercially successful of Jackson's later feature films.

Jackson worked in television during the 1960s and 1970s. Impressed by the stage work of Patrick McGoohan, he seems to have been involved in casting him for Danger Man (US:Secret Agent), episodes of which he directed. Apart from McGoohan's The Prisoner (1967), he was also involved with episodes of The Saint and The Professionals.

Jackson died on 3 June 2011 aged 95.

Plex 上的电影与电视节目

  • 六号特殊犯人
    六号特殊犯人1季
  • 侠探西蒙
    侠探西蒙6季
  • CI5行动
    CI5行动5季
  • Danger Man
    Danger Man3季
  • 西部海口
    西部海口1944

知名作品

  • 六号特殊犯人
    六号特殊犯人1季
  • 墙上的影子
    墙上的影子1950
  • No Place Like Homicide!
    No Place Like Homicide!1961
  • 侠探西蒙
    侠探西蒙6季
  • CI5行动
    CI5行动5季
  • 西部海口
    西部海口1944
  • The Birthday Present
    The Birthday Present1957
  • London Can Take It!
    London Can Take It!1940
  • The Gentle Touch
    The Gentle Touch1956
  • 手提箱里的男人
    手提箱里的男人1季
  • Seven Keys
    Seven Keys1961
  • The Famous Five
    The Famous Five2季
  • Danger Man
    Danger Man4季
  • Arthur of the Britons
    Arthur of the Britons2季
  • Snowball
    Snowball1960
  • The Stable Door
    The Stable Door1966

影視作品

1944
The Raider · as Gun Crew Officer On LeanderPlex提供

1997
Back to the Back of Beyond · as Pat Jackson

1938
Happy in the Morning: A Film Fantasy · as Associate Producer

1968
The Basil Brush Show · as Production Designer
1962
Z Cars · as Production Designer
1940
London Can Take It! · as Assistant Director