A man for all seasons, but preferably with grumpiness involved. Gord’s memory lives on via the Upstairs, Downstairs/Professionals telly double, for sure, but there’s far more going on than mere tough talk if you delve a little deeper. Would you believe, presenting Children’s Hour? And possibly uniquely among the actors listed here, there was no jobbing bit-partery for the nascent Jackson. No, it was straight into the co-lead, with Tommy Trinder as half of a duo of AWOL squaddies in the excellent The Foreman Went to France. After tha,t he packed in drawing up Rolls-Royce blueprints and the rest is film history. Whisky Galore!, Quatermass, Hell Drivers, The Great Escape… not a bad haul, all told.
FINEST HOUR: Foreman, we say. Why can’t his first be his best? No shame in that when the film’s so great.
Tabby tamer 73
April 3, 2014 at 9:41 pm
Try the film Pink String and Sealing Wax it’s a melodramatic delight!
Glenn Aylett
January 22, 2022 at 3:38 pm
Will always be remembered for his immortal reply to the Gestapo man in The Great Escape when he manages to fob him off posing as a Frenchman until the Gestapo man says ” good luck” in English and Gordon replies with ” thankyou”. The look on his face when he has been found out is priceless.