My Boy Jack is a British biographical television film based on David Haig's play of the same name for ITV. It was filmed in August My Boy Jack is a play by English actor David Haig. It tells the story of Rudyard Kipling and his grief for his son, John, who died in the First World War. The title comes from Kipling's poem, My Boy Jack. David Haig's play My Boy Jack was first staged at Hampstead Theatre in It was revived at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, in , and toured the UK. · My Boy Jack is appropriately set one hundred years ago – the events in the life of one of our literary giants, Rudyard Kipling, and the story of how his son went to war in Much of the play takes place in Kipling’s Jacobean manor house, Batemans, in Burwash. My Boy Jack Synopsis: English gentleman author Rudyard Kipling, famous for the Jungle Book, uses his considerable influence, being on a War Office propaganda think tank, to get his nearly 18 year-old son John 'Jack', admitted for military service during World war I after he is repeatedly refused on account of his bad eyesight.4/5. · My Boy Jack is a made for TV movie starring Daniel Radcliffe as Rudyard Kipling's son Jack as a teenager preparing for "The Great war" (WW1)/10(K).
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