Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson is a New Zealand based director, producer and screenwriter. He is well known for ‘The Lord of Rings Trilogy’ and ‘The Hobbit Trilogy’. He has directed, produced and has done screen writing for both the series. These series are based on the best-selling novels of the writer J.R.R. Tolkien.

His full name is Peter Robert Jackson and he was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He grew up in Pukerua Bay. He was a fan of films and when he gets a camera, he starts making a short film with his friends. When he was just 12, he tried to remake King Kong King Kong is an Indian film Actor and comedian ass >> Read More... . He also made a World War ǁ epic film ‘The Dwarf Petrol’. The most famous short film was ‘The Valley’, which was 20 minutes long.

He is not trained in film making, but he got the knowledge by experience. At the age of 16, he left his schooling and started working for Wellington newspaper as a photo-engraver. The newspaper was called ‘The Evening post’ and he worked there for 7 years. He started with ‘Bad Taste’ as his first feature film in 1987.

This was a splatstick horror comedy and it was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. He then worked upon ‘Meet the Feebles’ in 1989, which was a black comedy and ‘Brainded’ in 1992, which was a zombie comedy. He got the best director Academy Award. He got another two Academy awards for the movie ‘The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King’. Peter’s production company is called wingnut Films.

In 2002, he was made a companion of New Zealand Order of Merit and then in 2010 he was made Knight Companion. Some other movies he has worked in are ‘Forgotten silver’ in 1995, ‘The Frighteners’ in 1996, ‘The Lovely Bones’ in 2009, ‘ Mortal Engines Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ in 2018, etc. He was married to writer and actress Fran Walsh.

In 1989 Walsh and Jackson have worked together in almost all films that year. He was signed by Universal studios to remake the epic film ‘King Kong’ and when it was released in 2005, it earned $500 million worldwide. He did worked as an actor in his film, lead roles in “Bad Taste” and ‘Forgotten silver’. He has done many cameos in his own films and the show ‘ Entourage Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ in 2007. Peter Jackson is an aviation enthusiast. He owns World War I era’s 40 airworthy warbirds.