Cast: Gordon Jackson

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Gordon Jackson. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Great Escape

1963 · Movie · 168 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Steve McQueen · James Garner · Charles Bronson · Richard Attenborough

Plot The German high command has filtered out all of the allies' most talented escape artists and placed them in a POW camp specifically designed to foil any unwanted departures. But...

8.2

66K votes

8.2

66K votes

Upstairs, Downstairs (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Bain · Christopher Hodson · Raymond Menmuir · Derek Bennett

Cast Gordon Jackson · David Langton · Jean Marsh · Angela Baddeley

Plot TV Series (1971-1975). 5 Seasons. 68 Episodes. The series follows the lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place. Richard Bellamy, the...

7.8

2K votes

7.8

2K votes

Mutiny on the Bounty

1962 · Movie · 178 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Marlon Brando · Trevor Howard · Richard Harris · Hugh Griffith

Plot The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means...

7.3

7K votes

7.3

7K votes

Seven Waves Away

1957 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Richard Sale

Cast Tyrone Power · Mai Zetterling · Lloyd Nolan · Stephen Boyd

Plot After their luxury liner is sunk, a group of over twenty survivors take refuge in a life boat made for only nine. Included in the group are an old opera...

7.2

236 votes

7.2

236 votes

The Night of the Generals

1966 · Movie · 148 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Peter O'Toole · Omar Sharif · Tom Courtenay · Donald Pleasence

Plot In 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau (Omar Sharif) of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1969 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Maggie Smith · Robert Stephens · Pamela Franklin · Gordon Jackson

Plot A liberated young schoolteacher at an Edinburgh girls' school in the period between the two wars, instructs her girls on the ways of life. Ignoring the more mundane subjects, she...

7.0

405 votes

7.0

405 votes

The Professionals (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Clemens · William Brayne · Martin Campbell · Dennis C. Lewiston

Cast Gordon Jackson · Martin Shaw · Lewis Collins · Bridget Brice

Plot This TV Series (1977-1983) chronicled the lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to...

6.9

79 votes

6.9

79 votes

Yesterday's Enemy

1959 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast Stanley Baker · Guy Rolfe · Leo McKern · Gordon Jackson

Plot Cut off by the Japanese advance into Burma, Captain Langford (Stanley Baker)and his exhausted British troops take over an enemy-held jungle village. Despite the protests of an elderly padre (Guy...

6.9

41 votes

6.9

41 votes

Hell Drivers

1957 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Stanley Baker · Herbert Lom · Peggy Cummins · Patrick McGoohan

Plot Joe 'Tom' Yateley is an ex-convict. Trying to leave his past behind, he decides to starts working for the Hawlett Trucking company, which transports gravel. It's an aggressive company, where...

6.9

339 votes

6.9

339 votes

Tunes of Glory

1960 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Alec Guinness · John Mills · Dennis Price · Kay Walsh

Plot Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During the Second World War, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Now...

6.6

310 votes

6.6

310 votes

Blind Date

1959 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Stanley Baker · Robert Flemyng · Gordon Jackson · Hardy Krüger

Plot Superb thriller from Joseph Losey ("The Servant") starring Hardy Kruger as a Dutch painter accused of murdering his mistress after her body is found in his cottage. Investigator Stanley Baker...

6.6

326 votes

6.6

326 votes

The Creeping Unknown

1955 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast Brian Donlevy · Jack Warner · Margia Dean · Richard Wordsworth

Plot Britain's first rocket has been successfully launched and returns to Earth but communication has been severed.

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

The Captive Heart

1946 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Michael Redgrave · Rachel Kempson · Frederick Leister · Mervyn Johns

Plot In the summer of 1940, Captain Karel Hasek (Michael Redgrave), a Czech soldier, escapes from Dachau concentration camp and assumes the identity of a dead British officer, Captain Geoffrey Mitchell....

6.5

41 votes

6.5

41 votes

Hamlet

1969 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Nicol Williamson · Anthony Hopkins · Marianne Faithfull · Judy Parfitt

Plot Hamlet is Prince of Denmark, son of the recently deceased King Hamlet and his wife, Queen Gertrude. At a frosty night at Elsinore, the Danish royal castle, Hamlet meets King...

6.5

136 votes

6.5

136 votes

The Ipcress File

1965 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney J. Furie

Cast Michael Caine · Nigel Green · Guy Doleman · Gordon Jackson

Plot Harry Palmer is an unconventional counter-intelligence officer. Although a sergeant in the army, he is disrespectful of his superiors but does enjoy the finer things life has to offer. He...

6.4

931 votes

6.4

931 votes

Pink String and Sealing Wax

1945 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Mervyn Johns · Mary Merrall · Gordon Jackson · Jean Ireland

Plot In Victorian Brighton a scheming pub landlady befriends an innocent chemist's assistant in order to get hold of poison to do away with her boozy husband.

6.0

23 votes

6.0

23 votes

Sherlock Holmes and The Masks of Death (TV)

1984 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast Peter Cushing · John Mills · Anne Baxter · Anton Diffring

Plot Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There has been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for...

6.0

178 votes

6.0

178 votes

The Whistle Blower

1986 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Simon Langton

Cast Michael Caine · James Fox · Nigel Havers · John Gielgud

Plot A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a...

5.8

196 votes

5.8

196 votes

The Long Ships

1963 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Cardiff

Cast Richard Widmark · Sidney Poitier · Rosanna Schiaffino · Oskar Homolka

Plot There is a legend about a great bell, called "The Mother of Voices," made of pure gold, three times the size of a man, made by monks many years ago......

5.8

459 votes

5.8

459 votes

The Love Lottery

1954 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

5.7

74 votes

5.7

74 votes