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Dec 31, 2008 · Dickie Jobson was a friend and business associate of film makers Perry Henzell and Chris Blackwell, so it was no surprise when he ventured into film production with Countryman – one of the early efforts to continue the progressive move to indigenous feature film production established by The Harder They Come.
Tuesday January 27 2009, 5.10pm, The Times. As the right-hand man of Island Records’ founder Chris Blackwell, Dickie Jobson found himself managing the label’s latest signing, Bob Marley, in 1973-74 — the breakthrough years in the reggae singer’s career. Until Marley and the Wailers released their first album, Catch a Fire, on Island in ...
Sep 30, 2010 · In memory of Richard Paul Winchester Jobson (Dickie Jobson, to his friends).13/11/1941 - 25/12/2008
Jun 9, 2022 · Dickie Jobson, a friend and associate who directed the 1982 film “Countryman,” about a man who embodied Rastafarianism, gets little ink. “Chris’s best friend in life was my cousin Dickie ...
Mar 5, 2024 · His cousins Diane and Dickie Jobson worked as Bob’s lawyer and label manager, respectively; Wayne himself is a key voice in the Netflix documentary Remastered: ...
Dec 25, 2008 · The name of Dickie Jobson and his beautiful film “Countryman” will be forever memorialized in the Hall of Fame of the Jamaican film industry. On behalf of the Jamaica Film Academy, and as a personal friend, please allow me to extend honours on his passing." (Text taken from an article written by Barbara Blake Hannah 25th Dec.2009)
Countryman: Directed by Dickie Jobson. With Countryman, Hiram Keller, Carl Bradshaw, Basil Keane. A young American couple crash-lands their plane in Jamaica. A fisherman rescues them and leads them away from the authorities, who have fabricated a story about the plane, involving drug and arms smuggling by the CIA, to gain popularity in an upcoming election.
