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He played Noel Strachan in the Australian Second World War drama A Town Like Alice (1981), winning a Logie Award for his performance. After A Town Like Alice and The Professionals, Gordon Jackson continued his television work with appearances in Hart to Hart, Campion and Shaka Zulu and the films The Shooting Party and The Whistle Blower.
A Town Like Alice (United States title: The Legacy) is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia.Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II in Malaya, and after liberation emigrates to Australia to be with him, where she attempts, by investing her substantial financial inheritance, to ...
A Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel of the same name. Produced by the Seven Network, and directed by David Stevens, it was the second major adaptation of the book. In the United States it was shown on PBS under the Masterpiece Theatre banner, a rare non-British production to be so aired.
Oct 26, 2023 · Whether one is a fan of historical dramas or simply appreciates a well-crafted story, A Town Like Alice is an absolute must-watch. Published on October 26th, 2023. Written by Laurence Marcus for Television Heaven. From the steamy jungles of Malaya to the dusty and desolate outback of Australia, Nevil Shute's international bestselling novel is a ...
Even more impressive than Against The Wind, 1981’s A Town Like Alice was based on British-born, Australian-based author, Nevil Shute’s 1950 novel (previously adapted for the big screen in 1956 with Peter Finch and Virginia McKenna), which follows wealthy young Englishwoman, Jean Paget, who suffers as a prisoner-of-war at the hands of the ...
Jan 16, 1990 · Jan. 16, 1990 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Gordon Jackson, the butler who was the unquestioned master of the downstairs in the Emmy award-winning “Upstairs, Downstairs” TV series and whose ...
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A Town Like Alice: With Helen Morse, Bryan Brown, Gordon Jackson, John Lee. Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
