
Dan Jackson
Actor · b. 1925 · South Africa
Movies16
Movie6.5AdventureActionJames Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
Live and Let Die
1973 · 2.4K votes
Movie6.6AdventureScience FictionDuring the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .
Mysterious Island
1961 · 213 votes
Movie7.2MysteryThrillerA woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Bunny Lake Is Missing
1965 · 223 votes
Movie6.3AdventureDramaIn 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.
A High Wind in Jamaica
1965 · 46 votes
Movie7.0MysteryCrimeTwo Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.
Sapphire
1959 · 53 votes
Movie6.1AdventureDramaIn French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support from a nightclub hostess and an ex-soldier. His cause attracts a mix of characters, including a U.S. commentator, a government aide opposed to him, and an ivory hunter with conflicting interests.
The Roots of Heaven
1958 · 27 votes
Movie6.8ActionAdventureAn American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.
Beyond Mombasa
1956 · 8 votes
Movie5.5DramaScience FictionA 30-year-old man, who has been in a coma since birth, is finally restored to consciousness by a breakthrough brain operation. Although physically an adult, the man is "reborn" in the eye of an infant; the doctors caring for him must teach him to walk, talk and prepare for life in the outside world. Tension builds as he escapes from the hospital, wanders among people who do not realize his identity, and is hunted by the police.
The Mind of Mr. Soames
1970 · 20 votes
Movie6.3DramaDomestic difficulties develop in a working-class family when their daughter falls in love with a Jamaican man.
Flame in the Streets
1961 · 11 votes
Movie6.3HorrorJamaican obi-man hexes student hostel manager, eventually causing the manager's death, before being killed himself by the manager's vengeful spirit.
Naked Evil
1966 · 3 votes
Movie6.5DramaA psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have no reason to help him and who might enjoy killing him.
My Six Convicts
1952 · 10 votes
Movie8.0ThrillerDramaA teenager is determines to clear the name of a black friend who is accused of murder.
The Heart Within
1957 · 3 votes
Movie7.0DramaTV MovieIn Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
Fable
1965 · 1 votes
Movie6.1MysteryCrimeA serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from the case, but he and his glamorous wife Steve can never refuse a good mystery.
Paul Temple Returns
1952 · 6 votes
- Movie
Spot-welder Aaron Toft assumes the identity of Aaron Osango - an ex-spot welder who has been sentenced to death and is in jail in an African state.
I Am Osango
1967
- Movie8.0Family
The story of the attempted kidnapping of the son of a visiting African potentate.
On the Run
1968 · 1 votes
Series10
TV5.2DramaA BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · 8 votes
TV4.3DramaAn anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · 8 votes
- TVDrama
Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated with Armchair Theatre from ABC in the Sunday evening slot. The series was described at the time as epitomising ATV drama.
Drama 61-67
1961
TV7.0Action & AdventureFamilyThe adventures of two married game wardens in Kenya. George Adamson and Diana Muldaur live with their adopted lioness Elsa the Lioness, where they protect the animals in the surrounding area from all sorts of danger, both natural and human.
Born Free
1974 · 2 votes
- TVDrama
Anthology of 70-minute UK dramatic productions.
Theatre '70
1960
TV6.0DramaArmchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
Armchair Theatre
1956 · 6 votes
- TV10.0
William Boot, a mild-mannered contributor of "Nature Notes" to a national newspaper, is mistaken for a famous foreign correspondent and dispatched to Ishmaelia to cover a war. This series is believed to be lost.
Scoop
1972 · 1 votes
TV7.3DramaCrimeSpindoe is a British television series which was shown on ITV in the spring of 1968. It was named after the lead character, Alec Spindoe, a South London gangster; the plot of the series showed how Spindoe re-established his gangland empire after he had been supplanted during a term of imprisonment, but found once he had succeeded that he is no longer interested.
Spindoe
1968 · 3 votes
- TVDrama
Anthology of plays on themes related to escaping from situations.
Escape
1967
- TVDrama
Series of short plays from different regions of the British Isles.