Jack Gold

Biography

Jack Gold (born on June 28, 1930) is a British film and television director. He was part of the British Realist Tradition that followed Free Cinema. He began his career as an editor on BBC's Tonight programme. Gold became a freelance documentary filmmaker, also making dramas as a platform for his social and political observations. He is well known for having directed films such as; The Visit (1959), The National Health (1973), The Naked Civil Servant (1975), Man Friday (1975), The Medusa Touch (1978), Charlie Muffin (1979) aka A Deadly Game (USA), The Chain (1985) and Escape From Sobibor (1987). He also directed the final episode of Inspector Morse: "The Remorseful Day". Jack Gold is the uncle of the American actor, Ricky Paull Goldin.