Career
Jackson began his career with the Birmingham Repertory. Later he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation Repertory and played at the Mermaid Theatre and the Nottingham Playhouse. Jackson played the part of The Tale Bearer (a narrator not included in the original story) in the 1968 British Broadcasting Corporation Radio dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien"s The Hobbit.
Jackson also provided a large number of voices in the animated children"s series Ivor the Engine and went on to have roles in many long-running British television series.
He also appeared in the sitcoms Bless This House, All Our Saturdays, Mind Your Language, Citizen Smith, Dynasty, The Detectives, Lovejoy, Softly, Softly, Barlow at Large and Only Fools and Horses. In his final years, he appeared in The Bill, Casualty, Football players" Wives, Walker Texas Ranger and Doctors.
Jackson also did voiceovers for children"s animated television shows including The Dreamstone, Budgie the Little Helicopter, The Adventures of Paddington Bear, Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, Watership Down, Preston Pig, The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends, Testament: The Bible in Animation, Zombie Hotel, The Wind in the Willows (Cosgrove Hall version) and The Baskervilles. He also did voices in live-action shows and films including The Storyteller, Labyrinth and A.D.A.M.
He found a niche in The Godot Company, and became one of its principal members.
He died suddenly in London on 26 November 2006, having been taken ill during rehearsals of Waiting for Godot whilst the company was touring in Ireland.