I'm so sick of this. It seems like every other week or month another one comes. This is the worst because of the water. It's just swimming at you.
"Patrick Douglas Selmes Jackson" was an English film and television director.
Born in Eltham, Jackson worked as a production assistant on the 1936 short film Night Mail. He directed a number of documentaries in the mid-1930s. His debut feature film was 1944's Western Approaches (film)/Western Approaches. Jackson spent some time in Hollywood. He directed Shadow on the Wall (film)/Shadow on the Wall (1950), based on the novel Death in the Doll's House by Lawrence P. Bachmann and Hannah Leessuch. He was nominated for the Grand Prize at Cannes in 1952.
In his later career Jackson worked in television including episodes of Danger Man (Secret Agent in the US) and The Prisoner (1967).
Jackson died on 3 June 2011 at 95. Obituaries commemorating his life appeared in most major British newspapers given his outstanding contribution to the UK film industry.
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