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Patrick Douglas Selmes Jackson (26 March 1916 – 3 June 2011) was an English film and television director.
The death of the film director Pat Jackson breaks the last link with the pioneer British documentary movement of the 1930s, and with its masterpiece Night Mail (1936), on which he worked as a...
Pat Jackson began as an editor and co-director of documentaries with the famed GPO Film Unit in the mid-1930s. He worked with such icons of the documentary field as John Grierson and Harry Watt, but it was his World War II semi-documentary Western Approaches (1944) that put him on the map.
- Director, Production Designer, Writer
- March 26, 1916
- Pat Jackson
- June 3, 2011
Apr 20, 2017 · British cinema perfected the docudrama during the Second World War, with Charles Frend’s San Demetrio London (1943) and Pat Jackson’s Western Approaches (1944) among those to take their cues from Humphrey Jennings’ tribute to the Auxiliary Fire Service, which also featured in Basil Dearden’s The Bells Go Down (1943).
Mar 22, 1991 · Pat Jackson: [Chuckles] Well, if it's of any interest, my only claim, really, to fame is that I was born in the town of Bob Hope, at Eltham and we had a vast funny old Victorian building, sort of eight rooms, you know, the sort of thing that - Eltham was surrounded by these old Victorian houses. And then through various family tragedies, father ...
Our Virgin Island: Directed by Pat Jackson. With John Cassavetes, Virginia Maskell, Sidney Poitier, Isabel Dean. Two newlyweds buy a small private island in the British Virgin Islands and live a happy life without the comforts of modern society.
Aug 17, 2011 · Pat Jackson, the film director who has died aged 95, was best-known for Western Approaches (1944), in which he skilfully mixed documentary and studio footage to convey the perils facing Atlantic...
