Mick Jackson (director)

Television films directed by Jackson include:

• The Ascent of Man (1973), a 13-part documentary series written and presented by mathematician and historian of science Jacob Bronowski
• 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.[2]
• 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
• The 1995 docudrama Indictment: The McMartin Trial
• The 1999 adaptation of Mitch Albom's 1997 novel Tuesdays with Morrie, with Jack Lemmon
• The 2002 HBO film adaptation of Robert Wiener's non-fiction Live from Baghdad, with Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter
• Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006), a CBS miniseries based on the novel by Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds
• Temple Grandin (2010), an HBO biography film, starring Claire Danes, Catherine O'Hara and Julia Ormond.[3]

Theatrical films directed by Jackson include:

• The 1989 film Chattahoochee, with Gary Oldman and Dennis Hopper
• The 1991 film L.A. Story, with Steve Martin.
• The 1992 film The Bodyguard, starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner.
• The 1994 film Clean Slate, starring Dana Carvey and Valeria Golino.
• The 1997 film Volcano, with Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche.
• The 2002 film The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, with Adam Garcia and Rosario Dawson.
• The 2016 film Denial, with Rachel Weisz and Tom Wilkinson.

• Mick Jackson at IMDb