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Gordon Jackson
Catalogued films 66Actor 66
Gordon Cameron Jackson (19 December 1923 – 15 January 1990) was a Scottish actor. He is best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and as George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals. He also portrayed Capt Jimmy Cairns in Tunes of Glory, and Flt. Lt. Andrew MacDonald, "Intelligence", in The Great Escape. In 1960, Jackson was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actor for the film Yesterday's Enemy and in 1975 was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for the television series Upstairs, Downstairs. The following year he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Series.
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0/66- THThe Winslow Boy
Gunpowder
Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
The Whistle Blower
The Shooting Party
The ZAZ
An Audience with Mel Brooks
The Medusa Touch
Golden Rendezvous- SOSonntagsgeschichten
Russian Roulette
The Square of Three
Kidnapped
Scrooge
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Hamlet
Run Wild, Run Free
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
On the Run
Danger Route
Cast a Giant Shadow
The Fighting Prince of Donegal
The Ipcress File
The Long Ships
The Great Escape
Mutiny on the Bounty
Two Wives at One Wedding
Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog
Tunes of Glory
Cone of Silence
Snowball
Devil's Bait
Yesterday's Enemy
The Bridal Path
Blind Date
The Price of Silence
The Navy Lark
Rockets Galore
Three Crooked Men
Blind Spot- BLBlack Ice
Man in the Shadow
Hell Drivers
Sailor Beware
Women Without Men
Pacific Destiny- WIWindfall
Passage Home
The Delavine Affair
The Love Lottery
Meet Mr. Lucifer
Death Goes to School
Castle in the Air
Happy Go Lovely
Bitter Springs
Whisky Galore!
Stop Press Girl
Floodtide
Eureka Stockade
Against the Wind
The Captive Heart
Pink String and Sealing Wax
San Demetrio London
Nine Men
Millions Like Us
The Foreman Went to France