---
name: "Pat Jackson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/pat-jackson"
fi1m_id: "pat-jackson"
imdb_id: "nm0413912"
tmdb_id: 117718
wikidata_id: "Q7143591"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "26 March 1916"
died: "3 June 2011"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:35:44.567457+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Pat Jackson

## Identity

Pat Jackson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/pat-jackson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** pat-jackson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0413912
- **TMDB ID:** 117718
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7143591
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Jackson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7143591, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0413912/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/117718

Director. Born 26 March 1916 in Eltham, London, England, UK. Died 3 June 2011.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 26 March 1916, Eltham, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 3 June 2011
- **Also known as:** Patrick Jackson
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Jackson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7143591, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0413912/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/117718

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Prisoner*](https://film.one/tv/the-prisoner.md) (84)

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## Fi1m on Pat Jackson

> Pat Jackson brought documentary habits to drama: people at work, real locations and a concern for how institutions behave. We value his practical skill, though his later features did less to stretch it.

Patrick McGoohan remains stubborn in *The Prisoner* (1967), while the Village makes even familiar surroundings feel unsafe. We were unsettled by how little comfort those familiar surroundings offered. Pat Jackson directed four episodes, and his interest in institutions had found an unusual home. We rate him as a director who made working environments matter to a story, though the ambition of his early films was not sustained across his later features.

*Western Approaches* (1944) took that interest out to sea, filming largely on location with a non-professional merchant navy cast. The extensive sea shooting in Technicolor was a substantial technical undertaking, and using working seamen gave the drama a direct connection to the life it depicted. After a period in Hollywood, Jackson returned to British features, applying documentary methods to the hospital drama *White Corridors* (1951). He could combine several storylines and emotional pressures without losing the practical detail of the workplace.

The later features did less to develop those methods, and a change of genre was not always a step forward. *What a Carve Up* (1961) placed him in old-dark-house comedy-thriller territory, well away from the sea-going experiment. By the 1960s he was working mainly in television, handling action and psychological material within tight schedules. His experience of combining realistic detail with dramatic incident was well suited to that work.

Jackson's episodes of *The Prisoner* include *A. B. and C.* and *The Schizoid Man*, but the series should not be treated as his alone. McGoohan is its actor and creator, and his stubborn performance gives its mysteries a centre that holds. The programme can become wearing when its solemnity presses too hard, though that does not undo its grip. Start with it for Jackson's television work, then turn to *Western Approaches* for the earlier willingness to try something difficult.

## Biography

Pat Jackson (also credited as Patrick Jackson) was an English film and television director. Born in Eltham, London, on 26 March 1916, he began his career at the GPO Film Unit in 1933 as a messenger boy and worked on the documentary short *Night Mail* (1936) as a production assistant and narrator. He directed several documentaries before the Second World War, including *The Horsey Mail* (1938) and *The First Days* (1939).

Jackson's first feature was the wartime semi-documentary *Western Approaches* (1944), which he wrote, directed, edited and cast with non-professional actors. After the war he directed features such as *White Corridors* (1951) and *What a Carve Up!* (1961). From the 1960s he worked extensively in television, directing episodes of *The Saint* (1962), four episodes of *The Prisoner* (1967), and episodes of *The Professionals* (1977). He died on 3 June 2011.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Prisoner* (1967), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-prisoner.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Back to the Back of Beyond* (1997), as Pat Jackson
- *The Famous Five* (1978), series, Director
- *The Professionals* (1977), series, Director
- *King Arthur, the Young Warlord* (1975), Director
- *Arthur of the Britons* (1972), series, Director
- *On the Run* (1968), Director, Writer
- *The Prisoner* (1967), series, Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-prisoner.md)
- *Man in a Suitcase* (1967), series, Director
- *To Chase A Million* (1967), Director
- *The Stable Door* (1966), Director
- *The Mysterious Stranger* (1965), Director
- *All at Sea* (1965), Director
- *Highway Robbery* (1965), Director
- *Mystery at the Forge* (1965), Director
- *Catch As Catch Can* (1965), Director
- *The Night Prowler* (1965), Director
- *Dead End Creek* (1965), Director
- *Seventy Deadly Pills* (1963), Director, Writer
- *The Saint* (1962), series, Director
- *Don't Talk to Strange Men* (1962), Director
- *What a Carve Up!* (1961), Director
- *Seven Keys* (1961), Director
- *Danger Man* (1960), series, Director
- *Snowball* (1960), Director
- *Virgin Island* (1959), Writer, Director
- *The Birthday Present* (1957), Director
- *The Feminine Touch* (1956), Director
- *Something Money Can't Buy* (1952), Writer, Director
- *Encore* (1951), Director
- *White Corridors* (1951), Director, Screenplay
- *Shadow on the Wall* (1950), Director
- *Western Approaches* (1944), Director, Writer
- *Ferry Pilot* (1942), Director
- *Builders* (1942), Director
- *London Can Take It!* (1940), Assistant Director
- *Welfare of the Workers* (1940), Director
- *Health in War* (1940), Director
- *The First Days* (1939), Director
- *The Horsey Mail* (1938), Director

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