Director of the films BadTaste?, MeetTheFeebles?, BrainDead?, HeavenlyCreatures?, ForgottenSilver?, TheFrighteners?, and LordOfTheRingsPartOne, LordOfTheRingsPartTwo and LordOfTheRingsPartThree. For details see http://tbhl.theonering.net/peter/faq.html.
PeterJackson is also the name of the old man survivor in the book Andromeda Strain (1969) by Micheal Crichton.