Pat Jackson
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1916-03-26 (95 years old)
Deathday
2011-06-03
Place of Birth
Eltham, London, England, UK
Also known As
Patrick Jackson
Pat Jackson
Biography
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 ...
Acting
1997
as Pat Jackson
Production
1950
as Director
1962
as Director
1961
as Director
1942
as Director
1956
as Director
1938
as Director
1959
as Director
1959
as Writer
1961
as Director
1944
as Writer
1944
as Director
1951
as Director
1963
as Director
1963
as Writer
1957
as Director
1942
as Director
1968
as Director
1960
as Director
1952
as Writer
1940
as Director
1951
as Director
1966
as Director
1975
as Director
1951
as Screenplay
1939
as Director
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