Harry Jackson (MacGyver)

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name = Harry Jackson
series = MacGyver


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first = "Target MacGyver"
last = "Passages"
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creator = Lee David Zlotoff
portrayer = John Anderson
episode = 4
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gender = Male
age = 80s
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occupation = Farmer
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family = Angus MacGyver (Grandson)
spouse = Cecilia Jackson
children = Ellen Jackson
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residence = Minnesota, United States
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nationality = United States

Harry Jackson is a fictional character portrayed by John Anderson in four episodes of the "MacGyver" television series. Harry is the grandfather of Angus MacGyver and a famer that lives in rural Minnesota.

Harry became MacGyver's "father" after his grandmother and real father were killed in a car accident at the age of nine. But seven years later Harry left MacGyver to work in Alaska, sending money to MacGyver and his mother. At this time MacGyver and Harry lost contact, but beginning in season one of "MacGyver" and Harry meet again in the episode "Target MacGyver" after eighteen years without contact. [Stated by MacGyver as "it's been six..seven...eighteen years"] . Harry dies of a heart attack in the fifth season episode "Passages".

Harry appears in the four episodes "Target MacGyver, "Phoenix Under Siege" (both season 1), "Friends" (season 2) and "Passages" (season 5).

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