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Pat Jackson
Patrick Douglas Selmes Jackson (26 March 1916 – 3 June 2011) was an English film and television director. Biography Born in Eltham to a formerly affluent family which was severely affected by the Wall Street crash in 1929, Jackson's formal education was ended by his father's long-term illness and early death. 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 the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order.") was Jackson himself. He directed a number of documentaries, the first being ''The Horsey Mail'' (1938) about the rural postal service in Suffolk. ''The First Days'' (1939), co-directed by Harry Watt and Humphrey Jennings, was the first of the wartime documentarie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danger Man
''Danger Man'' (retitled ''Secret Agent'' in the United States for the revived series, and ''Destination Danger'' and ''John Drake'' in other overseas markets) is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake (Danger Man), John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. ''Danger Man'' was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. Series development The idea for ''Danger Man'' originated with Ralph Smart, an associate of Lew Grade, head of ITC Entertainment. Grade was looking for formats that could be exported. Ian Fleming was brought in to collaborate on series development, but left before development was complete. Like James Bond, the main character is a globetrotting spy who works at first for NATO, in series one, and then for the fictional British intelligence service M9 for the remainder of the show's run. Like Bond, Drake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916 Births
Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Empire, British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that has been stored and cooled. * January 9 – WWI: Gallipoli Campaign – The last British troops are evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevails over a joint British and French operation to capture Constantinople. * January 10 – WWI: Erzurum Offensive – Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire. * January 12 – The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, part of the British Empire, is established in modern-day Tuvalu and Kiribati. * January 13 – WWI: Battle of Wadi (1916), Battle of Wadi – Ottoman Empire forces defeat the British, during the Mesopotamian campaign in modern-day Iraq. * January 29 – WWI: Paris is bombed by German Empire, German zeppelins. * January 31 – WWI: An attack is planned on Verdun, France. Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Famous Five (1970s TV Series)
''The Famous Five'' is a British television series based on the children's books of the same name by Enid Blyton. It was broadcast on ITV over two series in 1978 and 1979. It was produced by Southern Television in 26 half-hour episodes. Cast * Michele Gallagher as George * Marcus Harris as Julian * Gary Russell as Dick * Jennifer Thanisch as Anne * Toddy (a Border Collie) as Timmy the Dog Production Production for the series began in 1977, with filming commencing during the summer of that year. The series was produced by Southern Television in a co-production with a German company. The episodes were recorded on location and on film (rather than the more usual video tape), making it the most expensive children's television series ever produced at that point. Each story was adapted from one of the original novels and featured the same main characters; George, Julian, Dick, Anne and Timmy the dog. The first series was produced by Don Leaver, while the second was produced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Prisoner (TV Series)
''The Prisoner'' is a British television series created by Patrick McGoohan. McGoohan portrays Number Six, an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village after resigning from his position. The allegorical plotlines of the series contain elements of science fiction, psychological drama, and spy fiction. It was produced by Everyman Films for distribution by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. A single series of 17 episodes was filmed between September 1966 and January 1968, with exterior location filming primarily taking place in the Welsh seaside village of Portmeirion. Interior scenes were filmed at MGM-British Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The series was first broadcast in Canada beginning on 5 September 1967, in the UK on 29 September 1967, and in the United States on 1 June 1968. Although the show was sold as a thriller in the mould of ''Danger Man'', McGoohan's previous series, its surreal and Kafkaesque setting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventy Deadly Pills
70 (seventy) is the natural number following 69 and preceding 71. Mathematics Properties of the integer 70 is the fourth discrete sphenic number, as the first of the form 2 \times 5 \times r. It is the smallest weird number, a natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect, where it is also the second-smallest primitive abundant number, after 20. 70 is in equivalence with the sum between the smallest number that is the sum of ''two'' abundant numbers, and the largest that is not ( 24, 46). 70 is the tenth Erdős–Woods number, since it is possible to find sequences of seventy consecutive integers such that each inner member shares a factor with either the first or the last member. It is also the sixth Pell number, preceding the tenth prime number 29, in the sequence \. 70 is a palindromic number in bases 9 (779), 13 (5513) and 34 (2234). Happy number 70 is the thirteenth happy number in decimal, where 7 is the first such number greater than 1 in base ten: t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Keys (film)
''Seven Keys'' is a 1961 British second feature crime thriller directed by Pat Jackson and starring Alan Dobie. The screenplay was by Jack Davies and Henry Blyth. Plot Russell is a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole £20,000 that was never recovered, on his release Russell sets out to find the cash. However, he must first solve the mystery of which locks the keys fit, and run the gauntlet of the police and a number of gangsters who are after him and the money. He enlists the reluctant assistance of the embezzler's former secretary, and uncovers a blackmail scheme that explains where the money went. Cast * Alan Dobie as Russell * Jeannie Carson as Shirley Steele * Delphi Lawrence as Natalie Worth * John Carson as Norman * John Lee as Jefferson * Anthony Nicholls as prison governor * Robertson Hare as Mr. Piggott * Fabia Drake as Mrs. Piggott * Alan White as prison warder * C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snowball (1960 Film)
''Snowball'' is a 1960 British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring Gordon Jackson, Kenneth Griffith and Zena Walker. It is based on the 1958 novel of the same name by James Lake. Plot 10-year-old Mickey is late home from school. He tells his parents he was thrown off the school bus by the conductor for not having a ticket, obliging him to walk four miles. The local press makes an issue of the incident and the story snowballs out of control. The conductor, Phil Hart, a former POW with memory problems, is harassed until he collapses on railway tracks and is killed by a train. Mickey finally owns up to lying. Cast * Gordon Jackson as Bill Donovan * Kenneth Griffith as Phil Hart * Zena Walker as Mary Donovan * Daphne Anderson as Nora Hart * Dennis Waterman as Mickey Donovan * John Welsh as Ted Wylie * Myrtle Reed as Betty Martin * Wensley Pithey as Jim Adams * Eric Pohlmann as editor * Ronald Adam as Mr. King * Roddy McMillan as Jack, bus conductor * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Island (film)
''Virgin Island'' (U.S. title: ''Our Virgin Island British Virgin Islands, Report - Page 6 Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 1958 GENERAL The Colony was the location for the film Virgin Island shot by Countryman Films Ltd. of London during the period September to November, 1957. The film was based on Robb White's book Our Virgin Island which had its setting on ...'') is a 1958 British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring John Cassavetes, Virginia Maskell and Sidney Poitier. It was adapted by Ring Lardner Jr. from the 1953 memoir ''Our Virgin Island'' by Robb White. Premise A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island. Cast Production It was filmed on the British Virgin Islands. Freddie Francis said he was "pressured" into doing the film by producer Leon Clore. I don't think Pat Jackson particularly wanted me to do it. But Leon wanted me to do it. Not that there was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Birthday Present
''The Birthday Present'' is a 1957 British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring Tony Britton and Sylvia Syms. The screenplay was by Jack Whittingham who also produced the film for British Lion Films. Plot Simon Scott, a top toy salesman, returns from a business trip to Germany with a watch hidden inside a toy intended as a birthday present for his wife Jean. He is caught by customs, arrested, and the following day sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for smuggling. He is taken to Wormwood Scrubs. He is not the normal type of prisoner, wearing a three-piece suit with a silk tie. He is taken to a spartan cell. As he pleads guilty there is no right of appeal, other than against the length of sentence. He tells his wife an appeal is too costly and will take too long. His wife tells his employer’s managing director, Colonel Wilson, that, contrary to earlier reports, Simon has not been sick but is serving a prison sentence. Wilson tries to keep the information t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Feminine Touch (1956 Film)
''The Feminine Touch'' (Canada: ''A Lamp Is Heavy'', U.S.:''The Gentle Touch'') is a 1956 colour British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring George Baker, Belinda Lee and Delphi Lawrence. It was the last feature film to be filmed in three-strip Technicolor and one of the last films made by Ealing under the umbrella of Rank. Plot The film follows five very different student nurses during their first year of training at a fictional NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine's Hospital, where they live in a dormitory. However, of the five, the main focus is Susan. Susan is reserved and rather naive; Pat is older and rather cynical; Maureen is Irish; Ann is a former public school girl; and Liz comes from a working class background. As they get to know each other, they bond in the face of the challenges of their work. Susan falls in love with Dr Jim Alcott. She is tempted to leave nursing to go with Jim to Canada despite his reluctance, and manages to persuade him, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
