Jack Gold
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Jacob Michael Gold (28 June 1930 – 9 August 2015) was a British film and television director. He was part of the British realist tradition which followed the Free Cinema movement.[1][2]
Career
Jacob Michael Gold was born on 28 June 1930, in North London, the son of Charles and Minnie (née Elbery) Gold.[3][4]
He studied Economics and Law at University College London.[5] After leaving UCL, he began his career as a film editor on the BBC's Tonight programme. Gold became a freelance documentary filmmaker, making dramas as a platform for his social and political observations.[citation needed]
For television, his best known work is The Naked Civil Servant (1975), based on Quentin Crisp's 1968 book of the same name and starring John Hurt, which won the Grand Prize at the San Remo Film Festival.[2][6] He had previously directed the 1964 crime series Call the Gun Expert for the BBC.
Other television credits include The Visit (1959), the BBC Television Shakespeare productions of The Merchant of Venice (1980) and Macbeth (1983) - the latter starring Nicol Williamson - as well as the made-for-TV adaptation of Graham Greene's The Tenth Man (1988), starring Anthony Hopkins and Charlie Muffin (1979, USA: A Deadly Game). In 1998, he directed an award-winning-adaption of the 1981 children's book Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian, featuring John Thaw in the lead. He also directed films such as The National Health (1973), Man Friday (1975),[7] Aces High (1976), The Medusa Touch (1978), The Chain (1985)[8] and Escape from Sobibor (1987).[9]
Gold directed the final episode of ITV's television detective drama Inspector Morse. Other work includes the television drama series Kavanagh QC and The Brief.[9]
Gold was an Honorary Associate of London Film School.
Personal life
Gold married actress Denyse Alexander (née Macpherson) in 1957, with whom he shared a birthday - she was born in 1931. The couple had three children: Jamie, Kathryn and music producer Nick Gold.[10] [4]
Filmography
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References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Purser, Philip (11 August 2015). "Jack Gold obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Goodnight Mister Tom director Jack Gold dies". BBC. 12 August 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jack Gold, film director - obituary". The Telegraph. 17 August 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jack Gold profile". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jack Gold: Bafta-winning director of confrontational documentaries and touching dramas, including Goodnight Mister Tom". The Independent.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.22nd London Film Festival programme. p. 46.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ebert, Roger (12 March 1976). "Man Friday". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Vagg, Stephen (11 September 2025). "Forgotten British Film Studios: The Rank Organisation 1982-1997". Filmink. Retrieved 11 September 2025.
- ^ a b Jack Gold at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Durán, Lucy (22 October 2024). "Nick Gold talks to Lucy Durán about the making of Buena Vista Social Club" (PDF). soas.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
Other sources
- Aitken, Ian (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. New York: Routledge, 2005. Template:ISBN.
External links
- Jack Gold at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The British Entertainment History Project | Jack Gold |". historyproject.org.uk.
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