Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special
Movies
The Bodyguard, Temple Grandin, Volcano, Threads, LA Story
Similar People
Bill Cobbs, Kevin Costner, David Strathairn, Lawrence Kasdan, Catherine O'Hara
Mick Jackson (born 4 October 1943 in Grays, England, United Kingdom) is a British film director and television producer. 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.
The 1986 docudrama Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent telling the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected at the height of the Cold War in 1962, with Tommy Lee Jones.
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