Peter Jackson gave birth on October, 31, 1961 in a small town Pukarua-Bey in New Zeland. From little up he liked to take pictures, and that is why one of friends of his parents complimented with him an amateur movie camera, what put beginning of one of the brightest and paradoxical cinematographic biographies.
Already from the first experiments of Peter Jackson began to spare much attention the special effects, thus sometimes laboured for surprisings results minimum facilities (for example, he represented a flash from the shot of pistol, simply pricking tape in the right place). Gradually he passed to more serious experiments — once he took part in the competition of amateur films with a korotkometrazhnoy ribbon, in which an enormous monster, taken off in the technique of frame-accurate animation, destroyed a city.
In 1983 he began to make an amateur parody movie about the invasion of aliens and comings back to life dead persons
«Bad taste». Dzhekson was in him not only by a producer, author of scenario, operator and montazherom, but also played a few roles, including one of main. As far as the prosecution of «Bad taste», Dzhekson began to understand that a project is beyond the amateur cinema, although a film was done for a quite small money. A film was finished off four years, whereupon one of workings in kinoindustrii friends Dzheksona managed to organize the show of film on the Kannskom international film festival in 1987. A film caused the great number of benevolent reviews and was sold for a rental in 12 countries. In 1990 on the festival of the fantastic cinema in Rome (Fantafestival) was awarded with «Bad taste» (in the Russian rental is the «Alien stew») bonus of the audience likings.
From the end of 1980th of Dzhekson constantly works in a coauthor with the wife and partner Fren Walsh, which at first was the scenario writer of his films, and then began to work and in a producer group. They are the joint owners of a few companies, providing a filmmaking organizationally and technically — including Wingnut Films, Weta Workshop and Weta Digital.
First no-nastoyaschemu the professional playing film of Pitera Dzheksona was become by the comedy of horrors «Dead Alive» (1992) — history about that, how exotic obez'yanokrysa, getting in a city zoo, became the source of epidemic, making out of people of living dead persons. This film, developing glorious traditions «The Evil Dead», Dzheksonu brought the impressive amount of genre bonuses, including Grand Prix of the International festival of fantastic films in Avoriaze in 1993.
In 1994 Dzhekson produced the psychological drama based on the real events «Celestial creations» about two girl-friends, led away thought of by them by the magic world so selflessly, that it eventually pushes them on murder of one mother of them. The scenario of this film got a nomination on «Oscar»; in addition, he became the cinemadebut of actress Keyt Uinslet. A film was got by Grand Prix on the International festival of fantastic films in Zherarmere.
Soon Robert Zemeckis Dzheksona invited to produce krupnobyudzhetnyy mystic thriller «Frighteners, The» (1996). A film did not succeed to be covered a cost in a rental, the special effects however applied in him can be counted stage 
for the middle of 1990th. After it Piter Dzhekson began preparation and surveys of the main (to date) masterpiece are kinotrilogii «Ruler of Rings». Films of trilogy went out during three years — in 2001 is «Fraternity of Ring», in 2002 is «Ruler of rings: Two fortresses» and in 2003 is «Returning of king». This work brought Dzheksonu and his comrade-in-armses in general complication 22 bonuses «Oscar», thus «Returning of king» was repeated by the record of films «Ben Gur» and «Titanik», taking 11 «Oscars», including bonuses for the best film and the best direction. «Returning of king» became the second film after «Titanika», collecting a more than 1 milliard of dollars in a world rental also. on December, 14, 2005 the next film of Pitera Dzheksona went out on screens — «King-kong», free remeyk famous «King-konga» 1933 years. Inventively made an and emotionally saturated movie appeared, nevertheless, not so successful in a commercial plan, as expected, collecting in the American rental 218 million dollars and covered a cost due to collections in a world rental (547 million dollars) and good sales on DVD. A film also got three «technical» «Oscars» — for the best sound, the best voice editing and the best special effects.
Presently a producer works above the scenario of picture the «Nice bones», which the of the same name best seller of Alice Sibold is underlaid.
Filmography:
1987 — Bad Taste
1987 — Meet the Feebles
1992 — Dead Alive
1994 — Heavenly Creatures
1995 — Forgotten Silver
1996 — The Frighteners
2001 — The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002 — The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003 — The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2005 — King Kong
2008 — The Lovely Bones (анонсирован)
2009 — Tintin
