Mick Jackson
Mick Jackson at the 70th Annual Peabody Awards
Born	(1943-10-04) 4 October 1943 (age 78) Aveley, England
Occupation	director, producer

Mick Jackson (born 4 October 1943) is an English film director and television producer best known for the 1984 BAFTA-winning TV film Threads.^[1]

Career

Between 1973 and 1987, he directed many documentary and drama productions for BBC TV and Channel 4, including the powerful 1984 Cold War TV movie Threads.^[2][3] He also directed theatrical feature films, including L.A. Story (1991), Volcano (1997) and the Whitney Houston-Kevin Costner thriller The Bodyguard (1992).

Accolades

Jackson won an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special for the biopic television film Temple Grandin.^[4]

He also won the Television Single Drama category for Threads at the 1985 BAFTA Awards.^[5]

Filmography

Film

• Chattahoochee (1989)
• L.A. Story (1991)
• The Bodyguard (1992)
• Clean Slate (1994)
• Volcano (1997)
• The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (2002)
• Denial (2016)

Television

• The Ascent of Man (1973)
• Connections (1978)
• Threads (1984)^[6]
• Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent (1986)
• Life Story (1987)
• A Very British Coup (1988)
• Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
• Tuesdays with Morrie (1999)
• Live from Baghdad, (2002)
• Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
• Temple Grandin (2010)^[7]