John Mackenzie
Directing
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.
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On the crew 50
Play for Today
1970
Screen Two
1985
The Wednesday Play
1964
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
Centre Play
1973
Softly Softly: Task Force
1969
The Long Good Friday
1980
The Newcomers
1965
Shut Down
1973
The Jazz Age
1968
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
Country Matters
1972
The Honorary Consul
1983
The Fourth Protocol
1987
Taking Leave
1974
The Infiltrator
1995
The Racing Game
1979
Paul McCartney: The McCartney Years
2007
Act of Vengeance
1986
Quicksand
2003
Looking After Jo Jo
1998
Speaking our Language
1993
When the Sky Falls
2000
The Last of the Finest
1990
The Innocent
1985
Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within
1998
Ruby
1992
Talkin' Blues
1977
Deadly Voyage
1996
Unman, Wittering and Zigo
1971
The Wild West Show
1975
One Brief Summer
1971
There Is Also Tomorrow
1969
A Sense of Freedom
1985
Sean Connery: Private
1993
The Elephants' Graveyard
1976
Paul McCartney - Take It Away
1982
The Black Dog
1973
Voyage
1993
Just a Boys' Game
1979
Made
1972
The Voices in the Park
1967
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
1974
Just Another Saturday
1975
Double Dare
1976
Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
1968
Say No to Strangers
1981
A Passage to England
1975
Red Shift
1978