John Mackenzie

from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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Biography

John Mackenzie was a British 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.

Timeline

2007Aged 75

  • Poster for Paul McCartney: The McCartney Years

    Director

2006Aged 74

  • Poster for Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday

    Himself

2003Aged 71

  • Poster for Quicksand

    Director

2000Aged 68

  • Poster for When the Sky Falls

    Director

1998Aged 66

  • Poster for Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within

    Director

1996Aged 64

  • Poster for Deadly Voyage

    Director

1995Aged 63

  • Poster for The Infiltrator

    Director

1993Aged 61

  • Poster for Sean Connery: Private

    Editor

  • Poster for Voyage

    Director

1992Aged 60

  • Poster for Ruby

    Director

1990Aged 58

  • Poster for The Last of the Finest

    Director

1987Aged 55

  • Poster for The Fourth Protocol

    Director

1986Aged 54

  • Poster for Act of Vengeance

    Director

1985Aged 53

  • Poster for The Innocent

    Director

  • Poster for A Sense of Freedom

    Director

1983Aged 51

  • Poster for The Honorary Consul

    Director

1981Aged 49

1980Aged 48

  • Poster for The Long Good Friday

    Director

1979Aged 47

  • Poster for Just a Boys' Game

    Director

1978Aged 46

  • Poster for Red Shift

    Director

1977Aged 45

  • Poster for Talkin' Blues

    Director

1976Aged 44

  • Poster for Double Dare

    Director

  • Poster for The Elephants' Graveyard

    Director

1975Aged 43

  • Poster for Just Another Saturday

    Director

  • Poster for A Passage to England

    Director

1974Aged 42

  • Poster for The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

    Director

  • Poster for Taking Leave

    Director

1973Aged 41

1972Aged 40

  • Poster for Made

    Director

1971Aged 39

  • Poster for One Brief Summer

    Director

  • Poster for Unman, Wittering and Zigo

    Director

1969Aged 37

  • Poster for There Is Also Tomorrow

    Director

1968Aged 36

  • Poster for Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It

    Director

1967Aged 35