John Mackenzie
- Directing
- August 16, 1932 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- June 8, 2011
Biography
John Mackenzie was a Scottish film director perhaps best known for the 1980 gangster film The Long Good Friday. Born in Edinburgh, Mackenzie worked in British film from the late 1960s, first as an assistant director to Ken Loach on productions such as Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home, before becoming an independent director himself, going on to work in both the UK and the US.
Known for
Filmography
- Paul McCartney: The McCartney Years · Director
- British Film Forever
- Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday · Self
- Quicksand · Director
- When the Sky Falls · Director
- Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within · Director
- Looking After Jo Jo · Director
- Deadly Voyage · Director
- The Infiltrator · Director
- Voyage · Director
- Speaking our Language · Director, Editing
- Sean Connery: Private · Editing
- Ruby · Director
- The Last of the Finest · Director
- The Late Show
- The Fourth Protocol · Director
- Act of Vengeance · Director
- A Sense of Freedom · Director
- The Innocent · Director
- Screen Two · Director
- The Honorary Consul · Director
- Paul McCartney - Take It Away · Director
- Say No to Strangers · Director
- The Long Good Friday · Director
- The Racing Game · Director
- Just a Boys' Game · Director
- Red Shift · Director
- Talkin' Blues · Director
- The Elephants' Graveyard · Director
- Double Dare · Director
- A Passage to England · Director
- The Wild West Show · Director
- Just Another Saturday · Director
- Taking Leave · Director
- The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil · Director
- Shut Down · Director
- Centre Play · Director
- The Black Dog · Director
- Made · Director
- Country Matters · Director
- Unman, Wittering and Zigo · Director
- One Brief Summer · Director
- Play for Today · Director
- Softly Softly: Task Force · Director
- There Is Also Tomorrow · Director
- W. Somerset Maugham · Director
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre · Director
- The Jazz Age · Director
- Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It · Director
- The Voices in the Park · Director
- Thirty-Minute Theatre · Director
- The Newcomers · Director
- The Wednesday Play · Director, Production Assistant
- Apaches · Director