John Mackenzie
Directing

John Mackenzie

Born 16 August 1932 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Died 8 June 2011

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

The Long Good Friday
The Fourth Protocol
The Honorary Consul
Quicksand
The Last of the Finest
Ruby
Act of Vengeance
A Sense of Freedom
Voyage
Unman, Wittering and Zigo
Deadly Voyage
When the Sky Falls
Paul McCartney: The McCartney Years
Quicksand
When the Sky Falls
Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within
Deadly Voyage
The Infiltrator
Voyage
Sean Connery: Private
Ruby
The Last of the Finest
The Fourth Protocol
Act of Vengeance
A Sense of Freedom
The Innocent
The Honorary Consul
The Long Good Friday
Just a Boys' Game
Red Shift
Talkin' Blues
The Elephants' Graveyard
Double Dare
Just Another Saturday
A Passage to England
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Taking Leave
Shut Down
Made
Unman, Wittering and Zigo
One Brief Summer
There Is Also Tomorrow
Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
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