Gordon Jackson

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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 George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals.

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Known For

The Great Escape

MacDonald 'Intelligence'

Mutiny on the Bounty

Seaman Edward Birkett

The Ipcress File

Carswell

The Quatermass Xperiment

BBC TV producer

The Medusa Touch

Doctor Johnson

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

MacDougal

The Night of the Generals

Captain Engel

Scrooge

Tom - Friend of Harry's

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1994	The World of Hammer TV	Self (archive footage)
1991	Effie's Burning MOVIE	Jessop Brown
1990	Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly! MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1989	The Winslow Boy MOVIE	Arthur Winslow
1989	Campion TV	Professor Gardner Cairey
1988	The Lady and the Highwayman MOVIE	Harry
1988	Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie MOVIE	Self
1988	Noble House TV	Supt. Armstrong
1986	The Whistle Blower MOVIE	Bruce
1986	Shaka Zulu TV	Prof. Bramston
1986	My Brother Tom MOVIE	Lockie McGibbon
1986	Heavenly Pursuits MOVIE	Himself (Uncredited)
1986	Gunpowder MOVIE	Sir Anthony Phelps
1986	Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away MOVIE	Self
1985	The Shooting Party MOVIE	Tom Harker
1984	The Masks of Death MOVIE	Inspector Alec MacDonald
1984	An Audience with Mel Brooks MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1981	A Town Like Alice TV	Noel Strachan
1979	Hart to Hart TV	Sir William Belgrave
1979	The Last Giraffe MOVIE	Fielding
1978	The Medusa Touch MOVIE	Doctor Johnson
1978	An Audience with... TV	Self
1977	The Professionals TV	George Cowley
1977	Golden Rendezvous MOVIE	Dr. Marston
1977	Supernatural TV	Howard Lawrence
1977	Spectre MOVIE	Inspector Cabell
1976	Sonntagsgeschichten MOVIE	Mr. Dunner
1975	Russian Roulette MOVIE	Brian Hardison
1974	Lothian Landscape MOVIE	Narrator
1973	The Square of Three MOVIE	Major Browne
1973	Centre Play TV	Pops
1972	Madame Sin MOVIE	Commander Cavendish
1972	GR Stein Refractories MOVIE	Narrator
1971	Kidnapped MOVIE	Charles Stewart
1971	Upstairs, Downstairs TV	Angus Hudson
1971	Budgie TV	Soapy Simon
1970	Scrooge MOVIE	Tom - Friend of Harry's
1970	The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens MOVIE	The Narrator (voice)
1969	Hamlet MOVIE	Horatio
1969	Run Wild, Run Free MOVIE	Mr. Ransome
1969	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie MOVIE	Gordon Lowther
1968	Wind Versus Polygamy MOVIE	Father Joseph
1968	On the Run MOVIE	Mr. Mallory
1967	Contrasts TV	Banquo
1967	Danger Route MOVIE	Brian Stern
1967	The Night of the Generals MOVIE	Captain Engel
1966	Triple Cross MOVIE	British Sergeant Questioning Chapman (uncredited)
1966	The Fighting Prince of Donegal MOVIE	Captain Leeds
1966	Cast a Giant Shadow MOVIE	James MacAfee
1966	Mystery and Imagination TV	Gayton
1965	Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes MOVIE	MacDougal
1965	The Ipcress File MOVIE	Carswell
1965	Gideon's Way TV	Sgt. McKinnon
1964	Daylight Robbery MOVIE	Police Sergeant
1964	Theatre 625 TV	Father Joseph
1964	The Long Ships MOVIE	Vahlin
1963	The Great Escape MOVIE	MacDonald 'Intelligence'
1962	Mutiny on the Bounty MOVIE	Seaman Edward Birkett
1962	Dr. Finlay's Casebook TV	Self
1961	Two Wives at One Wedding MOVIE	Dr. Thomas Murray
1961	Greyfriars Bobby MOVIE	Farmer
1961	Drama 61-67 TV	Philip
1960	Tunes of Glory MOVIE	Capt. Jimmy Cairns, M.C. (Battalion Adjutant)
1960	Cone of Silence MOVIE	Capt. Jock Bateson
1960	Snowball MOVIE	Bill Donovan
1959	Devil's Bait MOVIE	Sergeant Malcolm
1959	Yesterday's Enemy MOVIE	Sgt. MacKenzie
1959	The Bridal Path MOVIE	PC Alec
1959	Blind Date MOVIE	Sergeant
1959	The Price of Silence MOVIE	Roger Fenton
1959	The Navy Lark MOVIE	Leading Seaman Johnson
1958	Rockets Galore MOVIE	George Campbell
1958	Three Crooked Men MOVIE	Don Wescot
1958	Blind Spot MOVIE	'Chalky' White
1957	Black Ice MOVIE	Hamish
1957	Man in the Shadow MOVIE	Jimmy Norris
1957	Hell Drivers MOVIE	Scottie
1957	Let's Be Happy MOVIE	Dougal McLean (uncredited)
1957	Seven Waves Away MOVIE	John Merritt
1957	The Film That Never Was MOVIE	Self
1957	Scotland Dances MOVIE	Narrator
1956	Sailor Beware MOVIE	Carnoustie Bligh
1956	Armchair Theatre TV	Major Browne
1956	Women Without Men MOVIE	Percy
1956	The Baby and the Battleship MOVIE	Harry
1956	Blonde Bait MOVIE	Percy
1956	Pacific Destiny MOVIE	District Officer
1955	The Quatermass Xperiment MOVIE	BBC TV producer
1955	Windfall MOVIE	Leonard
1955	Moby Dick—Rehearsed MOVIE	A Young Actor /Ishmael
1955	Passage Home MOVIE	Ted Burns
1955	The Delavine Affair MOVIE	Peter J. Florian
1954	The Love Lottery MOVIE	Ralph
1953	Meet Mr. Lucifer MOVIE	Hector
1953	Malta Story MOVIE	British Soldier
1953	Death Goes to School MOVIE	Detective Inspector Campbell
1953	The Schoolmaster MOVIE	Self
1952	Scotland and the New World MOVIE	Self
1952	Castle in the Air MOVIE	Hiker
1951	The Lady with a Lamp MOVIE	Dr. Anson
1951	Happy Go Lovely MOVIE	Paul Tracy
1950	Bitter Springs MOVIE	Mac
1949	Whisky Galore! MOVIE	George Campbell
1949	Stop Press Girl MOVIE	Jock Melville
1949	Floodtide MOVIE	David Shields
1949	Eureka Stockade MOVIE	Tom Kennedy
1948	Against the Wind MOVIE	Scotty Duncan
1946	The Captive Heart MOVIE	Lt. David Lennox
1945	Pink String and Sealing Wax MOVIE	David Sutton
1945	Pursuit to Algiers MOVIE	Steward (uncredited)
1943	San Demetrio London MOVIE	Messboy John Jamieson - M.V. San Demetrio
1943	Millions Like Us MOVIE	Fred Blake
1943	Nine Men MOVIE	Young 'un
1942	The Foreman Went to France MOVIE	Alastair 'Jock' MacFarlan, 19th Fusillers
1942	One of Our Aircraft Is Missing MOVIE	(uncredited)

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