Gordon Jackson

1923-1990

Biography: life and films

Gordon Jackson was a Scottish actor. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 19th December 1923 and died in London, England on 15th January 1990, aged 66.

His best films as an actor include Sidney Gilliat's Millions Like Us (1943), Val Guest's Yesterday's Enemy (1959), Pat Jackson's Snowball (1960), Richard C. Sarafian's Run Wild, Run Free (1969) and David Greene's crime-thriller Madame Sin (1972).

Gordon Jackson appeared in 71 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Ronald Neame (3 films), Montgomery Tully (3), Charles Frend (3), Val Guest (2), Pat Jackson (2), Henry Cass (2), Harry Watt (2), Gordon Parry (2), Elmo Williams (2) and Charles Crichton (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (41 films), comedy (13), War (11), Thriller (9), romance (5), history (5), crime-thriller (5), Fantasy (4) and comedy-romance (2).

Our average rating for Gordon Jackson over all films is: 3.0

Filmography

Key: a = actor

The Foreman Went to France (1942) [a]

Millions Like Us (1943) [a]

Nine Men (1943) [a]

San Demetrio London (1943) [a]

Pink String and Sealing Wax (1946) [a]

The Captive Heart (1946) [a]

Against the Wind (1948) [a]

Eureka Stockade (1949) [a]

Floodtide (1949) [a]

Stop Press Girl (1949) [a]

Whisky Galore! (1949) [a]

Bitter Springs (1950) [a]

Happy Go Lovely (1951) [a]

The Lady with the Lamp (1951) [a]

Castle in the Air (1952) [a]

Death Goes to School (1953) [a]

Malta Story (1953) [a]

Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953) [a]

Delavine Affair (1954) [a]

The Love Lottery (1954) [a]

Passage Home (1955) [a]

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) [a]

Windfall (1955) [a]

Pacific Destiny (1956) [a]

Sailor Beware (1956) [a]

The Baby and the Battleship (1956) [a]

Women Without Men (1956) [a]

Black Ice (1957) [a]

Hell Drivers (1957) [a]

Let's Be Happy (1957) [a]

Man in the Shadow (1957) [a]

Rockets Galore! (1957) [a]

Seven Waves Away (1957) [a]

Blind Spot (1958) [a]

Three Crooked Men (1958) [a]

Blind Date (1959) [a]

Devil's Bait (1959) [a]

The Bridal Path (1959) [a]

The Navy Lark (1959) [a]

The Price of Silence (1959) [a]

Yesterday's Enemy (1959) [a]

Cone of Silence (1960) [a]

Snowball (1960) [a]

Tunes of Glory (1960) [a]

Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog (1961) [a]

Two Wives at One Wedding (1961) [a]

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) [a]

The Great Escape (1963) [a]

Daylight Robbery (1964) [a]

The Long Ships (1964) [a]

The Ipcress File (1965) [a]

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) [a]

Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) [a]

The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966) [a]

Danger Route (1967) [a]

The Night of the Generals (1967) [a]

On the Run (1968) [a]

Hamlet (1969) [a]

Run Wild, Run Free (1969) [a]

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) [a]

Scrooge (1970) [a]

Kidnapped (1971) [a]

Madame Sin (1972) [a]

Russian Roulette (1975) [a]

Golden Rendezvous (1977) [a]

The Medusa Touch (1978) [a]

The Shooting Party (1985) [a]

Gunpowder (1986) [a]

Shaka Zulu (1987) [a]

The Whistle Blower (1987) [a]

The Tomb Robbery Papyrus: Notes of a Past (2009) [a]



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