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Director. Writer. IMDbPro Starmeter Top 5,000 130. Play clip 1:33. A Guide to the Films of Peter Jackson. 27 Videos. 99+ Photos. Sir Peter Jackson made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to direct three major feature films simultaneously.
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Peter Jackson. Sir Peter Robert Jackson ONZ KNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known as the director, writer and producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003) and the Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien.
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- Peter Robert Jackson, 31 October 1961 (age 61), Wellington, New Zealand
- 1976–present
- Fran Walsh (1987–present)
Mini Bio. Sir Peter Jackson made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to direct three major feature films simultaneously. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King were nominated for and collected a slew of awards from around the globe, with The Return of the King receiving his most ...
- October 31, 1961
Peter Jackson. Highest Rated: 100% The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert (2022) Lowest Rated: 26% Mortal Engines (2018) Birthday: Oct 31, 1961. Birthplace: Pukerua Bay, North Island, New...
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- Early Life
- Amateur Film Work
- Professional Film Career
- 'Lord of The Rings'
- Personal Life
Born on October 31, 1961, in New Zeland, Peter Jackson started his prolific career as a child, creating short films with a 8-mm movie camera. Without any formal training, Jackson has directed a number of successful films ranging across all genres. He is most well-known for his film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, which has...
Film director and screenwriter Peter Robert Jackson was born on October 31, 1961, in Pukerua Bay, New Zealand, a picturesque coastal town near the capital of Wellington. "Our house was on the edge of a cliff that sort of plummeted right down into the ocean," Jackson recalled. "It was a children's playground, an adventure playground." His parents we...
Jackson landed a job as a photographic lithographer at a local newspaper. He worked six days a week while living at home in order to save as much money as possible to purchase a state-of-the-art camera. Once he had purchased equipment, Jackson set out to create a film. Filming only on Sundays, his one day off, over the next several years Jackson wr...
Following the success of Bad Taste, in 1989 Jackson made a raunchy puppet film called Meet the Feebles that critics alternatively found repulsive and hilarious; it developed a devoted cult following. In 1993, he released his first professional live action film, Braindead (released as Dead Alivein the United States), which won considerable acclaim a...
Looking for an ambitious project to test his directorial skills, in the mid-1990s Jackson latched on to the idea of making film versions of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic trilogy of fantasy novels, The Lord of the Rings. An avid fan of the novels, Jackson said, "I read the book when I was 18 years old and thought then, 'I can't wait till the movie comes ...
Jackson married Fran Walsh, a screenwriter who had helped him gain contacts in the New Zealand film industry during the 1980s. Walsh co-wrote the screenplays for Heavenly Creatures and The Lovely Bones. They have two children, Billy and Katie. As the director of the Lord of the Ringstrilogy, Peter Jackson is one of the most popular and acclaimed fi...
Apr 17, 2024 · London CNN — A rarely seen 1970 film following the Beatles just before the band’s breakup will be released on Disney+ after being restored by Hollywood director Peter Jackson, the streaming...
Apr 19, 2024 · Peter Jackson, New Zealand director, perhaps best known for his film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. His other notable movies included Heavenly Creatures and King Kong and the documentary They Shall Not Grow Old. He also directed the docuseries The Beatles: Get Back.
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