Peter JacksonFilmography

Born:: October 31, 1961 in Wellington, New Zealand
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Originally a master of gross-out splatter films, New Zealand director Peter Jackson is the man behind some of the goriest footage ever captured on celluloid. He is also one of the few horror directors to have earned widespread mainstream critical respect, thanks to his direction of the ambitious Lord of the Rings...Read More

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The Hobbit, Part 2

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: MGM and New Line Cinema presents the second half of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh executive produce the production, which will shoot simultaneously with the first film. Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) is attached to helm the feature, budgeted at 150 million Read More

1/1/12
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost

Synopsis: DreamWorks presents this computer-animated motion-capture adaptation of Georges Remi's beloved Tintin comic strip in this first installment of a planned trilogy. Steven Spielberg handles direction duties on the initial film, which is set to be followed by a second film helmed by Peter Jackson, who Read More

12/23/11
The Hobbit, Part 1

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The creative team behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy return to Middle-earth with this adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic precursor The Hobbit. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh executive produce the New Line Cinema/MGM joint production, the story of which will span two films. Acclaimed director Read More

1/1/11
District 9

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Vanessa Haywood, Mandla Gaduka

Synopsis: Director Neill Blomkamp teams with producer Peter Jackson for this tale of extraterrestrial refugees stuck in contemporary South Africa. It's been 28 years since the aliens made first contact, but there was never any attack from the skies, nor any profound technological revelation capable of Read More

8/14/09
The Lovely Bones

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, Saoirse Ronan

Synopsis: Visionary Heavenly Creatures director Peter Jackson teams with longtime collaborators Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens to adapt author Alice Sebold's best-selling novel concerning a murdered young girl who watches from heaven as her family attempts to cope with their devastating loss, and tracks her Read More

1/15/09
Dambusters

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The year is 1943, and as the Nazi war machine rises to the absolute height of its aggression, a hand-picked squadron of Royal Air Force pilots is selected to take part in one of the most daring, highly classified, and potentially deadly assignments in wartime history. As the training for Read More

1/1/09
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood: Live from Madison Square Garden

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood

Synopsis: Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood perform "Hard to Cry Today", "Double Trouble", "Pearly Queen", and seventeen other unforgettable hits in this concert captured live at Madison Square Garden. An exclusive new documentary entitled "The Road to Madison Square Garden," an acoustic soundcheck, as well as Read More

2009
The Sci-Fi Boys

Actors: Peter Jackson

Synopsis: Prepare to find out just how much influence Famous Monsters Magazine really had on contemporary sci-fi cinema as filmmaker Paul Davids presents a playful look at how yesterday's fanboys became today's blockbuster directors. Comprised of testimonies by such genre-oriented Hollywood heavies as Stephen Sommers Read More

2006
Enigma with a Stigma

Synopsis: Shot in a mockumentary style, The Enigma with a Stigma concerns a man named Max Angeli who discovers that he has a new body part known as the "Euclid." He soon discovers that he is not the only one in the world to have this little known body part. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
King Kong

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis

Synopsis: One of the greatest adventure stories in Hollywood history gets a new interpretation in this action drama from Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson. In the early 1930's, Carl Denham (Jack Black) is a daring filmmaker and adventurer who has gained a reputation for his pictures documenting Read More

12/14/05
Ringers: Lord of the Fans

Synopsis: Explore the influence of author J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings on modern popular culture in this revealing documentary narrated by Lord of the Rings star Dominic Monaghan. For over fifty-years fans of Tolkien's literary masterpiece have bonded over tales of brave hobbits and evil wizards, and Read More

2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom

Synopsis: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King brings Peter Jackson's mammoth adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic to a close in suitably epic fashion. Instead of starting just where the previous film left off, however, it goes far back in time to the moment the tormented creature Gollum first Read More

12/17/03
The Long and Short of It

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Andrew Lesnie, Prapraphorn Chansantor, Paul Randall

2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett

Synopsis: The second film in Peter Jackson's series of screen adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's internationally popular Lord of The Rings trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers literally begins where The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ended, with the Fellowship splitting into three Read More

12/18/02
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean

Synopsis: New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson fulfills his lifelong dream of transforming author J.R.R. Tolkien's best-selling fantasy epic into a three-part motion picture that begins with this holiday 2001 release. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit resident of the medieval "Middle-earth" who Read More

12/19/01
God's Army

Crew: Second Assistant Director

Actors: Richard Dutcher

Synopsis: Richard Dutcher writes, produces, directs, and stars in this fish-out-of-water religious drama about Mormons pounding the streets of Hollywood, looking to save a couple of souls. A small town elder journeys to the big city and joins a missionary group led by the gruff Marcus Dalton (Dutcher). Read More

2000
Forgotten Silver

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Thomas Robins, Peter Jackson, Leonard Maltin, Sam Neill, Harvey Weinstein, Peter Corrigan

Synopsis: Originally presented to an unsuspecting New Zealand public as the real deal, Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson's masterful mocumentary initially proved so convincing that unsuspecting viewers bought it hook, line, and sinker. A remarkably detailed look at the life of early filmmaker Colin Read More

1996
The Frighteners

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs

Synopsis: Charlatan Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) has genuine psychic powers, but he doesn't use them to help people. Rather, he generates cases for his supernatural private-eye firm by harassing a group of hapless ghosts (including a dearly departed Wild West outlaw and an undead judge played by John Read More

1996
Jack Brown, Genius

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this comedic New Zealand fantasy, the spirit of an inventive monk, Elmer, who died 1,000 years ago while trying out his newest invention, a pair of wings, enters the mind of a young contemporary inventor, Jack Brown and tries to force Jack to learn to fly. But Jack is already busy avoiding the Read More

1995
Genie from Down Under

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A co-production of Britain's BBC, Australia's ABC and a number of children's-television concerns, Genie From Down Under boasted one of the most blatantly self-explanatory titles in TV history. Alexandra Milman starred as an English girl named Penelope, who came upon a magic opal containing two Read More

1995
Heavenly Creatures

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison

Synopsis: After winning a cult following for several offbeat and darkly witty gore films, New Zealand director Peter Jackson abruptly shifted gears with this stylish, compelling, and ultimately disturbing tale of two teenage girls whose friendship begins to fuel an ultimately fatal obsession. Pauline (Melanie Lynskey Read More

1994
Dead Alive

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Brenda Kendall

Synopsis: Director Peter Jackson's second feature cheerfully trumps the gross-out quotient of his splatterfest debut, the appropriately named Bad Taste. The tone is cartoonishly comic, and the premise is simple: The village dweeb (Timothy Balme) is trying to maintain a budding romance with the sweet Paquita Read More

1992
Meet the Feebles

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Donna Akersten, Stuart Devenie, Mark Hadlow, Ross Jolly, Brian Sergent

Synopsis: Bearing the same relationship to The Muppet Show that Fritz the Cat does to Felix the Cat, Meet the Feebles is a gleefully rude, decidedly adult comedy about the backstage goings-on amongst an eccentric group of puppets the day before their televised variety special. Made by director Peter Read More

1989
Bad Taste

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Makeup, Producer, Screenwriter, Special Effects

Actors: Peter Jackson, Mike Minett, Pete O'Herne, Terry Potter, Craig Smith

Synopsis: Extraterrestrial fast-food franchisers come to earth to pick up food supplies-in this case, human flesh. After wiping out a few small towns, the aliens must contend with a team of government assassins, headed by Pete O'Herne. As the plot rolls on, O'Herne's crew is decimated in as gory a manner as Read More

1987