John Mackenzie

Born: 1932-08-16, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Died: 2011-06-08

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.

Filmography

• Screen Two (1985)
• Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
• The Wednesday Play (1964)
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969)
• Centre Play (1973)
• Shut Down (1973)
• British Film Forever (2007)
• Country Matters (1972)
• The Long Good Friday (1980)
• The Fourth Protocol (1987)
• Looking After Jo Jo (1998)
• The Honorary Consul (1983)
• Talkin' Blues (1977)
• Taking Leave (1974)
• Act of Vengeance (1986)
• When the Sky Falls (2000)
• Deadly Voyage (1996)
• Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971)
• Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday (2006)
• Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (1998)
• The Last of the Finest (1990)
• A Sense of Freedom (1985)
• The Elephants' Graveyard (1976)
• One Brief Summer (1971)
• Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It (1968)
• Paul McCartney: The McCartney Years (2007)
• Just a Boys' Game (1979)
• Just Another Saturday (1975)
• The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1974)
• There Is Also Tomorrow (1969)