Patrick Douglas Selmes Jackson (26 March 1916 – 3 June 2011) was an English film and television director. Born in Eltham, Jackson worked as a production assistant on the 1936 short film Night Mail. He directed a number of documentaries in the mid-1930s. His debut feature film was 1944's Western Approaches. Jackson spent some time in Hollywood. He directed Shadow on the Wall (1950), based on the novel Death in the Doll's House by Lawrence P. Bachmann and Hannah Leessuch. He was nominated for the Grand Prize at Cannes in 1952. In his later career Jackson worked in television including episodes of Danger Man (Secret Agent in the US) and The Prisoner (1967).Jackson died on 3 June 2011 at 95.