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Jamaican film maker, **Dickie Jobson**, known for the 1970s feature film **Countryman**, has passed away.

Jobson, according to officials of the Reggae Film Festival, passed away on Christmas Eve.

In Countryman, Jobson told the tale of an American young woman who crash-lands her plane in Jamaica. A local named Countryman rescues her and leads her away from the authorities, who have fabricated a story about the plane, involving drug and arms smuggling by the CIA, in order to gain popularity in an upcoming election.

The Jamaica Film Academy had honored Jobson at the February 2008 staging of the first Reggae Film Festival and screened his 1970s feature film `Countryman` in one of its rare Jamaican showings.

Jobson was a friend and business associate of film makers Perry Henzell and Chris Blackwell. As part of the Island Jamaica film and music team, he was associated with every film project of that prolific organization, and assisted many overseas film production companies to interact with Jamaica.

*source : [caribbeanworldnews.com](http://www.caribbeanworldnews.com)*

Dickie Jobson was my dear friend who I have known for the past 55 years, I was so sorry to hear from his younger brother Jimmy that he had passed away. I had spoken to him by phone just a few weeks earlier, before he had returned to England for a medical check-up. I will always have fond memories of my dear friend Dickie.
Fairwell my friend, Richard P. Winchester Jobson.

R.I.P.

Dickie Jobson was an amazing talented man and a legend for those of us who knew and loved him. He had a devilish sense of humor and wit and made life an adventure for himself and for those of us fortunate enough to have been in his orbit . He had the gift of being a friend who appreciated others and thus cultivated the roots of friendships all over the world. The Dicko stories abound....his friends around the world are recounting them and in our sorrow,laughing uproariously at the antics and merriment that Dicko so loved. Dicko, you were and are, one of a kind.

jah bles

Rest in peace Dickie, and thank you for what you gave us.

Thank you for this movie sir... may you rest in peace

we are realy sorry fe de death of mr Dickie jobson.
jah bless the yut ,and make him rest in respectable internal life .
me love alla dem FILMS from island jamaica film pdn.
Movies like (DANCE HALL QUEEN)
jah rule rule you,and big up to JAMAICA.
Note no island entertaining like jamaica.
MERRY CHRISTMAS JAMAICANS
MULIKA ROGERS from the pearl of africa(UGANDA)
EAST AFRICA