Gordon Jackson
Actor
- Millions Like Us (1943)
- Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford…
- Honest dramatization of the British "home front" during the second World War focuses on a factory worker struggling to overcome her grief after the…
- Pink String And Sealing Wax (1946)
- Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Gordon Jackson
- Brit film noir set in a dark and dirty Brighton sees a scheming landlady (Withers) befriend a young chemist's assistant in order to obtain poison to…
- Eureka Stockade (Massacre Hill) (1949)
- Dir. Harry Watt
Feat. Chips Rafferty, Jane Barrett, Jack Lambert…
- Stirring account of the Victorian gold miners rebellion against British colonial authority in the 1850's and it's violent result.
Ealing Studio's…
- Passage Home (1955)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Finch, Anthony Steel, Diane Cilento…
- Torrid melodrama with the presence of a young woman on board a cargo ship causing tensions amongst the male crew.
- Hell Drivers (Hard Drivers) (1957)
- Dir. Cy Endfield
Feat. Patrick McGoohan, Sir Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom…
- Stanley Baker plays a hard–nosed trucker forced to take on a dangerous long haul, through which a bitter rivalry develops with a fellow driver…
- Tunes of Glory (1960)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price…
- Two colonels of a Scottish regiment – one convivial, one disciplinarian – face off in a battle of wills in this drama of peacetime…
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris…
- The story of Captain Bligh and mutineer Fletcher Christian is orchestrated here with a star cast and many a visual flourish.
Marred, though not…
- Ipcress File, The (1965)
- Dir. Sidney J. Furie
Feat. Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman…
- An academic James Bond–style thriller involving kidnapping, espionage, mysterious tapes and corrupt authorities. Stylised photography and an…
- Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The (1968)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin…
- Schoolteacher at a private girls school, Maggie Smith grooms and instructs her pupils with a passionate sense of vocation, unfortunately making more…
- Hamlet (1969)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Nicol Williamson, Gordon Jackson, Anthony Hopkins…
- The predominant use of close–ups enhances Nicol Williamson's bold performance as an impulsive, roguish young Hamlet.
- Upstairs, Downstairs (TV Series) (Upstairs Downstairs) (1971-1975)
- Feat. Pauline Collins, Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh
- Famous 70s soap opera about the class struggle in a household of servants and gentry around the turn of the 20th century. Set a new standard in…
- Madame Sin (1971)
- Dir. David Greene
Feat. Bette Davis, Denholm Elliott, Robert Wagner…
- Criminal mastermind Bette Davis casts her heavily mascaraed eye on nuclear submarines and the like. A cheesy pleasure.
- Kidnapped (1971)
- Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins…
- A dashing Michael Caine heads this ambitious adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tales of 18th century Scotland. Grand, if ultimately unrealised…
- Professionals, The (TV Series) (1977-1983)
- Dir. William Brayne
Feat. Lewis Collins, Martin Shaw, Gordon Jackson
- CI5 hard–men Bodie and Doyle shoot first and then ask no questions in their dirty (but necessary) line of work. A seminal TV Series of the…
- Golden Rendezvous (1977)
- Dir. Ashley Lazarus
Feat. Richard Harris, John Vernon, Gordon Jackson…
- Richard Harris dodges bullets in this daffy thriller about a luxury cruise liner held to ransom by terrorists. This early UNDER SIEGE provided plenty…
- Medusa Touch, The (1978)
- Dir. Jack Gold
Feat. Richard Burton, Lee Remick, Derek Jacobi…
- Garbled but entertaining thriller stars Burton as a paranormally–gifted writer who psychiatrist (Remick) tries to wean him from his murderous…