Jack Gold

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Jack Gold (born June 28, 1930 in London , † August 9, 2015 ) was a British film director . Between 1964 and 2004 he directed over 50 film and television works. His television film Der kleine Lord (1980) with Alec Guinness became particularly famous in Germany .

biography

After graduating from the University of London with a degree in business law , Gold joined the BBC , where he worked as an editor for the television program Tonight . In 1957 he married Denyse, née Macpherson, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.

In 1964 he made his directorial debut with the six-part television series Call the Gun Expert . After an episode he shot for the television series The Wednesday Play in 1967 , The World of Coppard followed , for which gold won the BAFTA award in 1968 . In the same year, Jack Gold made his first film with Events while Guarding the Bofors Cannon , which is about the conflict between a young officer (played by David Warner ) and a bitter and unstable soldier (played by Nicol Williamson ). In Gold's next film, The Reckoning of 1969, Nicol Williamson played a businessman who seeks revenge for his father's death.

In 1974 Jack Gold won the Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Comedy for his film Until the Last Patient . In 1975 Gold's Robinson Crusoe adaptation Friday and Robinson (with Peter O'Toole and Richard Roundtree ) took part in the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival . In the same year Gold filmed the autobiography The Naked Civil Servant (German TV title: How to live your life ) by the homosexual entertainer and eccentric Quentin Crisp . In 1976, Battle in the Clouds won the Best Picture Award at the Evening Standard British Film Awards . In 1977 Jack Gold shot the mystery thriller The Terror of Medusa , in which a telekinetic writer (played by Richard Burton ) confronts humanity he hated with disasters after his clinical death. In 1980, an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's youth novel The Little Lord with Ricky Schroder and Sir Alec Guinness followed , which won two Emmy Awards. This is broadcast every year shortly before Christmas on German television by ARD .

Since 1984, Jack Gold has almost exclusively made television films, including the 1987 film Escape from Sobibor , for which he received an Emmy Award nomination.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1968: Events while guarding the Bofors Gun (The Bofors Gun)
  • 1969: The Reckoning
  • 1972: To the Last Patient (The National Health)
  • 1973: Catholic (Catholics)
  • 1974: The Man of Metal (Who?)
  • 1975: Friday and Robinson (Man Friday)
  • 1975: How to Live Your Life (The Naked Civil Servant)
  • 1976: Battle in the Clouds (Aces High) / (Le tigre du ciel)
  • 1977: The Medusa (The Medusa Touch)
  • 1978: The Sailor's Return
  • 1980: Charlie Muffin
  • 1980: The Little Lord (Little Lord Fauntleroy)
  • 1982: Deadly marriages (Praying mantis)
  • 1983: Good and Bad at Games
  • 1983: The Red Monarch
  • 1984: Sakharov
  • 1985: Ed Murrow - Passionate Reporter (Ed Murrow)
  • 1985: Moving rarely comes alone (The chain)
  • 1987 escape from Sobibor (Escape from Sobibor)
  • 1988: The Tenth Man
  • 1988: A Mexican Dream (Stones of Ibarra)
  • 1990: The Rose and the Jackal
  • 1991: She Stood Alone
  • 1991: The Last Romantics
  • 1993: The Lucona case
  • 1994: The Return of the Native

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Philip Purser, Brian Baxter: Jack Gold obituary . The Guardian , Aug. 11, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Gold, jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film director
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2015