Background
Gold, Jack was born on June 28, 1930 in London. Son of Charles and Minnie (Elbery) Gold.
Gold, Jack was born on June 28, 1930 in London. Son of Charles and Minnie (Elbery) Gold.
Bachelor of Science in Economics, Polytechnic University, London, 1953. Bachelor of Laws, University College, London, 1953.
He was part of the British realist tradition which followed the Free Cinema movement. After leaving University College London, he began his career as a film editor on the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Tonight programme. Gold became a freelance documentary film maker, making dramas as a platform for his social and political observations.
Foreign 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.
Other television credits include The Visit (1959), the British Broadcasting Corporation Television Shakespeare productions of The Merchant of Venice (1980) and Macbeth (1983) - the latter starring Nicol Williamson - as well as the made-for-television adaptation of Graham Greene"s The Tenth Manitoba (1988), starring Anthony Hopkins and Charlie Muffin (1979, United States of America: 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), Manitoba Friday (1975), Aces High (1976), The Medusa Touch (1978), The Chain (1985) and Escape From Sobibor (1987). Gold directed the final episode of Independent Television"s television detective drama Inspector Morse.
Other work includes the television drama series Kavanagh Queen's Counsel and The Brief.
Married Denyse MacPherson, October 25, 1957. Children: Jamie, Nicholas, Kathryn.