Known for Directing
Mick Jackson (born 4 October 1943) is an English film director and television producer best known for the 1984 BAFTA Award-winning television film Threads. He is also known for directing projects such as the comedy L.A. Story (1991), the romance drama The Bodyguard (1992), the HBO film Temple Grandin (2010), and the drama Denial (2016). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mick Jackson (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
October 4, 1943 (age 82)
Birthplace
Aveley, Essex, England, UK
Filmography
25 films, 15 shows


Denial
2016 · 1h 49m
country: United Kingdom
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.


Temple Grandin
2010 · 1h 48m
country: United States
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic American who has become one of the leading scientists in humane livestock handling.


The Memory Keeper's Daughter
2008 · 1h 30m
country: United States
During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a girl with Down syndrome, he hands the second child over to Caroline without his wife's knowledge. Henry's fateful decision yields grave consequences for his family over the next 20 years.


Covert One: The Hades Factor
2006 · 2h 38m
country: Unknown
Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino, Academy and Golden Globe Award winner Anjelica Huston and Stephen Dorff star in this nail-biting tale of action and intrigue about members of an elite undercover team who race against time to locate the source of a deadly virus threatening the lives of millions of Americans.


Live from Baghdad
2002 · 1h 48m
country: United States
A group of CNN reporters venture to the Iraqi capital to cover the Gulf War.


The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
2002 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Andy, a successful marketing guy quits his job, gets a new job at a research facility, makes a powerful enemy who makes him volunteer for a nearly impossible project: The $99 PC. The only available guys at the lab, three sociopaths, together they compile a revolutionary PC for $99, then they become the victims of a venture capitalist and Andy's old foe, can he find a way to overcome the problems?


Tuesdays with Morrie
1999 · 1h 29m
country: United States
A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in relationships, careers and society.


Volcano
1997 · 1h 44m
country: United States
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.


Indictment: The McMartin Trial
1995 · 2h 15m
country: United States
The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of abuse. One of the most expensive and long running trials in US legal history, exposes the lack of evidence and unprofessional attitudes of the finger pointers which kept one of the accused in jail for over 5 years without bail.


Clean Slate
1994 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle of a hot investigation and has a developing romance, this is less than convenient.


The Bodyguard
1992 · 2h 9m
country: United States
A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks fireworks of another sort, and the love-averse tough guy is torn between duty and romance.


L.A. Story
1991 · 1h 35m
country: United States
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.


Chattahoochee
1990 · 1h 38m
country: United States
In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.


Life Story
1987 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret.


Double Image
1986 · 1h 29m
country: United Kingdom
This film tells 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.


Threads
1984 · 1h 57m
country: Australia
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
A Guide to Armageddon
A Guide to Armageddon
1982 · 32m
country: United Kingdom
A documentary film about the effects of nuclear weapons. What would be the effects on people and buildings if one medium-sized nuclear bomb was dropped on a large city? How effectively would various types of shelter protect us? In an experimental trial, two couples live in fallout shelters for ten days each.


How to Pick Up Girls!
1978 · 1h 34m
country: United States
The amusing adventures of an unsophisticated small-town lad who arrives in New York, moves in with his swinging buddy, and surprisingly becomes an authority on the ways and wiles of women as he enters the world of big-time girl-chasing.