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actor
Gordon Jackson is ...
Dead
Born | 19 December 1923 in Glasgow |
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Died | 15 January 1990 in London |
Age | 66 years, 1 months |
Cause | bone cancer |
Sex or gender | male |
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Country of citizenship | United Kingdom |
Birth name | Gordon Cameron Jackson |
Manner of death | natural causes |
Spouse | Rona Anderson |
Occupation | actor, stage actor and film actor |
Awards | Officer of the Order of the British Empire and Emmy Award |
About Gordon Jackson
Gordon Cameron Jackson, OBE (19 December 1923 – 15 January 1990) was a Scottish Emmy Award-winning actor 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 Flt. Lt. Andrew MacDonald, "Intelligence", in The Great Escape.
About Death
In December 1989, he was diagnosed with bone cancer; the diagnosis was too late and nothing could be done. He died on 15 January 1990, aged 66, in London. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.
Films - which cast members have died?
Gordon Jackson has been a part of these films.
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The Quatermass Xperiment
1955 film by Val Guest

The Great Escape
1963 American film

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
1965 British comedy film

Whisky Galore!
1950 film by Alexander Mackendrick

The Ipcress File
1965 film by Sidney J. Furie

Eureka Stockade
1949 film by Harry Watt

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1969 film by Ronald Neame

Mutiny on the Bounty
1962 film by Carol Reed, Lewis Milestone

Hell Drivers
1957 film by Cy Endfield

Scrooge
1970 film by Ronald Neame

Tunes of Glory
1960 film by Ronald Neame

Golden Rendezvous
film

The Long Ships
1963 film by Jack Cardiff

Bitter Springs
1950 film by Ralph Smart

Yesterday's Enemy
1959 film by Val Guest

The Medusa Touch
1978 film by Jack Gold

Triple Cross
1967 film by Terence Young

The Night of the Generals
1967 film by Anatole Litvak

Cast a Giant Shadow
1966 film by Melville Shavelson

The Shooting Party
1985 British drama film directed by Alan Bridges

The Whistle Blower
1986 film by Simon Langton

Greyfriars Bobby
1961 film by Don Chaffey

Millions Like Us
1943 film by Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat

The Captive Heart
1946 film by Basil Dearden

The Foreman Went to France
1942 film by Charles Frend

San Demetrio London
1943 film by Robert Hamer, Charles Frend

The Fighting Prince of Donegal
1966 film by Michael O'Herlihy

Nine Men
1943 film by Harry Watt

The Love Lottery
1953 film directed by Charles Crichton

Against the Wind
1948 film by Charles Crichton

Kidnapped
1971 British adventure film

Sailor Beware!
1956 film by Gordon Parry

Blind Spot
1958 film by Peter Maxwell

Pink String and Sealing Wax
1945 film by Robert Hamer

Blind Date
1959 film by Joseph Losey

Passage Home
1955 film by Roy Ward Baker

Danger Route
1967 film by Seth Holt

Floodtide
1949 film by Frederick Wilson

Hamlet
1969 film by Tony Richardson

Stop Press Girl
1949 film by Michael Barry

The Price of Silence
1959 film by Montgomery Tully

Two Wives at One Wedding
1961 film by Montgomery Tully

Three Crooked Men
1958 film by Ernest Morris

Snowball
1960 film by Pat Jackson
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