Celebrity Biographies
Jackson hunsicker
He was about to have an outstanding career as a screenwriter and director but he had no luck. Still, Jackson Hunsicker co-wrote the hit film “Death on Safari” from 1989. The writer died on December 29, 2017, at the age of 69, at her residence in Studio City, California, after a long battle with cancer.
Born in Philadelphia on May 14, 1948, Jackson Hunsicker graduated from New York’s Tisch School of the Arts. She wrote and directed for Canon (the production company that was successful in video stores at the time) The Frog Prince , a children’s musical based on a tale by the Grimm brothers, where a princess discovers a talking frog that will be of great help to her. The film had a then unknown Helen Hunt in the cast , but it failed miserably, which put an end to the promising career of her author.
Shortly after, he took over the script for Death on Safari , an adaptation of “Ten little blacks”, the famous novel by Agatha Christie , starring Donald Pleasence . Thanks to its good reception, Jackson Hunsicker got a new directing opportunity, as he shot Oddball Hall , with veterans Don Ameche and Burgess Meredith , as members of a gang of robbers who organize a heist to steal jewels. It barely had an impact. A few years later, he wrote episodes of The Marshall , a series starring Jeff Fahey , as a police officer.
Outside of the entertainment industry, Hunsicker practiced as an inventor. She created the Memo-Mate, a small keychain-type recorder. Divorced from Christopher Pearce, head of production at Cannon, and from Leon Ichaso , director of titles such as The Singer , she had no children. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she promoted the book “Turning Heads”, where prominent photographers provided snapshots of women afflicted with the terrible disease, doing leisure activities.