Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson ONZ KNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03) and the Hobbit trilogy (2012–14), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. He is the third-highest-grossing film director of all time, his films having made over $6.5 billion worldwide.
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| Full name at birth | Peter Robert Jackson
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| Claim to fame | The Lord of the Rings, King Kong, The Hobbit
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| Date of birth | 31 October 1961
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| Place of birth | Pukerua Bay,Wellington, New Zealand
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| Occupation | Film director
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| Height | 5' 6½" (169 cm)
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| Shoe size | 40
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| Net worth | $500,000,000 USD
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| High school | Kapiti College, Raumati Beach, New Zealand (dropped out)
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- Met Fran Walsh in 1987, during post-production for the gross-out cult classic Bad Taste (1987).
- He is among an elite group of 7 Directors who have won Best Picture, Best Director & Best Screenplay (Orig/Adapted) for the same film. In 2004 he won all three for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). The other Directors are Billy Wilder, Leo McCarey, Francis Ford Coppola, James L. Brooksand Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (the brothers co-produced, co-directed and co-wrote No Country for Old Men (2007) with each other).
- Father of Katie Jackson.
- Father of Billy Jackson.
- For his first movie, Bad Taste (1987), he did all the special effects, the make-up effects and built exact replicas of the weapons.
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