Riley Jackson

Biography

Beginning a career in radio in Illinois in the late '30s, Jackson moved to Hollywood in 1951, where he took up a role as a radio and television manager for Cecil & Presbrey. Jackson moved to film work in 1953, and by 1961, he and fellow showman Robert Patrick, established the distribution company Parade Releasing, for which Jackson produced the English-language version of 'I Bombed Pearl Harbor' (1960, dir. Shue Matsubayashi), which landed him an uncredited role as the dialogue director on the English-language version of 'Monster Zero' (1965, dir. Ishiro Honda) for Henry G. Saperstein's United Productions of America. By the early '70s, his film career was placed firmly in overseeing the ADR...