Jackson Hunsicker

Jackson Hunsicker

Jackson Hunsicker

Screenwriter, director
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Jackson Hunsicker

Screenwriter, director

May 14, 1948

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

December 29, 2017

Jackson Hunsicker was an American screenwriter and director.

She attended New York University’s Tisch Film School and worked in New York City and San Francisco before landing in Los Angeles, where she worked as a screenwriter and then a director.

Hunsicker’s first major project in entertainment was directing and writing The Frog Prince. The 1988 musical, starring Helen Hunt, was based on the Grimm fairy tale. In 1989, she wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians (with Donald Pleasence and Brenda Vaccaro), followed by directing and writing Oddball Hall (with Don Ameche and Burgess Meredith) in 1990.

In addition to her film background, she was a writer on ABC’s drama, The Marshal, in 1995.

Hunsicker died December 29, 2017, in Studio City, California. She was 69.

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