Mick Jackson (born 4 October 1943, Grays , England , United Kingdom ) is a British film director and television producer.[1] Between 1973 and 1987, Jackson directed many documentary and drama productions for BBC TV and Channel 4 . Relocating to Hollywood, he directed feature films, including The Bodyguard starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston . In 2010, Jackson won an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special for the dramatised biographical TV film Temple Grandin .
Selected filmography Television films directed by Jackson include:
Connections (1978), a 10-part documentary series created with science historian James Burke
The 1984 docufiction Threads , dramatising the aftermath of a nuclear war, with Karen Meagher and Reece Dinsdale .[2]
The 1986 docudrama Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent telling the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko , a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West at the height of the Cold War in 1962.
The 1987 docudrama Life Story , dramatising Watson and Crick's search for the structure of DNA with Jeff Goldblum and Tim Pigott-Smith
The 1988 adaptation by Alan Plater of Chris Mullin 's 1982 novel A Very British Coup , with Ray McAnally
The 1995 docudrama Indictment: The McMartin Trial
The 1999 adaptation of Mitch Albom 's 1997 novel Tuesdays with Morrie , with Jack Lemmon
The 2002 HBO film adaptation of Robert Wiener's non-fiction Live from Baghdad , with Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter
Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006), a CBS miniseries based on the novel by Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds
Temple Grandin (2010), a HBO biography film, starring Claire Danes , Catherine O'Hara and Julia Ormond .[3] Theatrical films directed by Jackson include:
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