Gordon Jackson
Acting
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.
Born: December 19, 1923
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland
Known For
The Square of Three
An army private decides one day that he's not taking any more orders, precipitating a crisis of confidence for the Medical Corps major assigned to investigate his case.
The Great Escape
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Upstairs, Downstairs
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.
A Town Like Alice
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.
The Professionals
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
Seven Waves Away
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
Yesterday's Enemy
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted.
Heavenly Pursuits
Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late Edith Semple to sainthood; Mathews, a non-believer, wishes the school would concentrate on teaching the children. He becomes confused, however, when he is involved in possibly miraculous events himself! Written by George S. Davis
Theatre 625
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Tunes of Glory
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Jessop Brown
as Self (archive footage)
as Professor Gardner Cairey
as Harry
as Supt. Armstrong
as Bruce
as Prof. Bramston
as Lockie McGibbon
as Himself (Uncredited)
as Sir Anthony Phelps
as Tom Harker
as Inspector Alec MacDonald
as Self (uncredited)
as Noel Strachan
as Sir William Belgrave
as Fielding
as Doctor Johnson
as Self
as George Cowley
as Dr. Marston
as Howard Lawrence
as Inspector Cabell
as Brian Hardison
as Major Browne
as Commander Cavendish
as Charles Stewart
as Angus Hudson
as Soapy Simon
as Tom - Friend of Harry's
as Horatio
as Mr. Ransome
as Gordon Lowther
as Father Joseph
as Brian Stern
as Captain Engel
as British Sergeant Questioning Chapman (uncredited)
as Captain Leeds
as James MacAfee
as Gayton
as Carswell
as Sgt. McKinnon
as Police Sergeant
as Father Joseph
as Vahlin
as MacDonald 'Intelligence'
as Seaman Edward Birkett
as Dr. Thomas Murray
as Farmer
as Capt. Jimmy Cairns, M.C. (Battalion Adjutant)
as Capt. Jock Bateson
as Bill Donovan
as Sergeant Malcolm
as Sgt. MacKenzie
as PC Alec
as Sergeant
as Roger Fenton
as Leading Seaman Johnson
as George Campbell
as Don Wescot
as 'Chalky' White
as Jimmy Norris
as Scottie
as Dougal McLean (uncredited)
as John Merritt
as Carnoustie Bligh
as Major Browne
as Percy
as Harry
as Percy
as District Officer
as BBC TV producer
as A Young Actor /Ishmael
as Ted Burns
as Peter J. Florian
as Ralph
as Hector
as British Soldier
as Detective Inspector Campbell
as Hiker
as Dr. Anson
as Paul Tracy
as Mac
as George Campbell
as Jock Melville
as David Shields
as Tom Kennedy
as Scotty Duncan
as Lt. David Lennox
as David Sutton
as Steward (uncredited)
as Messboy John Jamieson - M.V. San Demetrio
as Fred Blake
as Young 'un
as Alastair 'Jock' MacFarlan, 19th Fusillers
as (uncredited)