Gordon Jackson

Gordon Jackson

Birthday: 1923-12-19

Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gordon Cameron Jackson, OBE (19 December 1923 – 15 January 1990) was a Scottish Emmy Award-winning actor best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gordon Jackson (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,0...

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Mutiny on the Bounty
Mutiny on the Bounty

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Capta...

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influen...

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The Great Escape
The Great Escape

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number...

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The Medusa Touch
The Medusa Touch

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries w...

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Kidnapped
Kidnapped

Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to b...

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The Quatermass Xperiment
The Quatermass Xperiment

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars b...

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Against the Wind
Against the Wind

A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an o...

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Wind Versus Polygamy
Wind Versus Polygamy

When Councillor Ogidt and Mr. Madu come to Chief Ozuomba's court, both wanting to marry Elina, the C...

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Scrooge
Scrooge

A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney....

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The Masks of Death
The Masks of Death

Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There...

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Hamlet
Hamlet

Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse...

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The Night of the Generals
The Night of the Generals

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He ...

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Tunes of Glory
Tunes of Glory

Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major...

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The Ipcress File
The Ipcress File

Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence securi...

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Blind Date
Blind Date

Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, soph...

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The Long Ships
The Long Ships

Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the "Mother of ...

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Hell Drivers
Hell Drivers

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money....

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Whisky Galore!
Whisky Galore!

Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Polit...

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Greyfriars Bobby
Greyfriars Bobby

In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd...

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The Fighting Prince of Donegal
The Fighting Prince of Donegal

Ireland 1587. Hugh O'Donnell inherits the title of The O'Donnell, the prince of Donegal, and tries t...

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An Audience with Mel Brooks
An Audience with Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft,...

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Golden Rendezvous
Golden Rendezvous

Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero whe...

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Effie's Burning
Effie's Burning

An elderly lady suffers from the mysterious condition of spontaneous combustion....

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San Demetrio London
San Demetrio London

Based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew af...

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Millions Like Us
Millions Like Us

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the service...

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The Captive Heart
The Captive Heart

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The ...

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Pursuit to Algiers
Pursuit to Algiers

After the King of Rovenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to ...

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Madame Sin
Madame Sin

A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine....

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Pink String and Sealing Wax
Pink String and Sealing Wax

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering ph...

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Yesterday's Enemy
Yesterday's Enemy

Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the sold...

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The Shooting Party
The Shooting Party

1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randol...

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Danger Route
Danger Route

Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but h...

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Run Wild, Run Free
Run Wild, Run Free

A young boy, unable to speak, befriends a wild colt with blue eyes and a falcon named "Lady"....

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Abandon Ship
Abandon Ship

After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboa...

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Black Ice
Black Ice

British B-movie adventure....

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Nine Men
Nine Men

The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African c...

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Rockets Galore
Rockets Galore

The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the go...

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Gunpowder
Gunpowder

Dr. Vache has a plan to destroy the world’s economy by flooding it with gold. Spies Gunn and Powder ...

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Happy Go Lovely
Happy Go Lovely

Rich bachelor B.G. Bruno, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially...

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The Last Giraffe
The Last Giraffe

An engaging tale of the efforts of a real-life American wildlife photographer and her safari guide h...

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Blonde Bait
Blonde Bait

Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Sco...

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Blind Spot
Blind Spot

US Army Officer Dan Adams, blinded during the war, is framed for a diamond smuggling rap. Upon regai...

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Bitter Springs
Bitter Springs

A family buy land set around a water hole in a remote location, that is occupied by native Australia...

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Floodtide
Floodtide

David Shields refuses to go into agriculture and opts instead for ship building...

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Stop Press Girl
Stop Press Girl

A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she does...

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Russian Roulette
Russian Roulette

An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state...

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Death Goes to School
Death Goes to School

Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school w...

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Cone of Silence
Cone of Silence

A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash wit...

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The Delavine Affair
The Delavine Affair

Peter Reynolds stars as Rex Banner, a newspaperman who makes it his life's mission to track down a v...

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Passage Home
Passage Home

Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A youn...

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The Navy Lark
The Navy Lark

An Inshore Minesweeping Unit has been forgotten by the Navy after World War II on the peaceful islan...

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On the Run
On the Run

The story of the attempted kidnapping of the son of a visiting African potentate....

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Cast a Giant Shadow
Cast a Giant Shadow

An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is di...

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Let's Be Happy
Let's Be Happy

On receiving an inheritance from her grandfather, Canadian Jeannie MacLean decides to visit the fami...

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Three Crooked Men
Three Crooked Men

Three men arrive in a small town to pull the local bank heist....

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Spectre
Spectre

An occult criminologist investigates a businessman who dabbles in the black arts while trying to sur...

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Two Wives at One Wedding
Two Wives at One Wedding

Tom Murray's wedding day takes a turn for the worse when a mysterious woman arrives uninvited and cl...

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GR Stein Refractories
GR Stein Refractories

The process of making refractory bricks....

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Devil's Bait
Devil's Bait

The police, with the help of a baker, try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned wi...

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Lothian Landscape
Lothian Landscape

A look at the sights of East Lothian, Scotland....

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Castle in the Air
Castle in the Air

The owner of a Scottish castle discovers that it is haunted by the spirit of a beautiful woman. He d...

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The Love Lottery
The Love Lottery

Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pres...

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Pacific Destiny
Pacific Destiny

Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the...

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Sonntagsgeschichten
Sonntagsgeschichten

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Malta Story
Malta Story

Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a B...

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Scotland Dances
Scotland Dances

A look at the traditional dances of Scotland....

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Daylight Robbery
Daylight Robbery

Three children are locked in a store by accident. They help catch a gang who break into the store th...

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Snowball
Snowball

A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. Th...

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The Foreman Went to France
The Foreman Went to France

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent th...

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The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents...

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My Brother Tom
My Brother Tom

Set in Australia, against the backdrop of World War II, this epic miniseries centers on the religiou...

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The Bridal Path
The Bridal Path

Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortuna...

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Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away

This 1986 documentary features interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster,...

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Women Without Men
Women Without Men

In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Bo...

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The Price of Silence
The Price of Silence

Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up w...

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The Whistle Blower
The Whistle Blower

A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for...

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Sailor Beware
Sailor Beware

Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Sh...

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Meet Mr. Lucifer
Meet Mr. Lucifer

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time....

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Eureka Stockade
Eureka Stockade

In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government....

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Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie

The stars come out on Sesame Street in this fun-filled video featuring the show's most memorable mom...

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The Lady with a Lamp
The Lady with a Lamp

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of th...

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The Square of Three
The Square of Three

An army private decides one day that he's not taking any more orders, precipitating a crisis of conf...

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The Film That Never Was
The Film That Never Was

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The Lady and the Highwayman
The Lady and the Highwayman

During one of his robberies, a highwayman, who steals from the rich and gives to the poor, falls in ...

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The Baby and the Battleship
The Baby and the Battleship

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds hims...

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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. ...

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Triple Cross
Triple Cross

Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An...

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Man in the Shadow
Man in the Shadow

The wife of a condemned man tries to save him in England by finding the real killer....

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Heavenly Pursuits
Heavenly Pursuits

Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the sch...

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Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!

Big Bird and his pals are making musical mayhem as they sing the goofiest, nuttiest, silliest songs ...

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Moby Dick Rehearsed
Moby Dick Rehearsed

A play-within-a-play of Moby Dick by Orson Welles....

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Scotland and the New World
Scotland and the New World

The changing face of 1950s Scotland....

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The Schoolmaster
The Schoolmaster

A look at the daily routine of a Scottish schoolmaster....

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The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

British television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Antho...

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Windfall
Windfall

A shop assistant finds a case with £2000 in it, and doesn't quite know what to do with it....

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