Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948,
Glasgow
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) is a
Scottish film director,
writer
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and
painter. He attended the Glasgow School of Art where he studied mural painting. Following this he became an art teacher and cartoonist, and about this time he traveled with a nomadic tribe in the
Sahara for six months.
In the 1970s he studied at the
Middlesex Polytechnic
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and in the 1980s in the
National Film and Television School. He made a short film called ''Passing Glory'' as his graduation piece, a recreation of Glasgow in the 1950s and 1960s. It was premiered at the 1986 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it won the first Scottish Film Prize.
Filmography
*''Conquest of the South Pole'' (
1989
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) (
TV film
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, adapted from the play by
Manfred Karge)
*''
The Grass Arena
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Storyline
Raised ...
'' (
1991
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)
*''
The Playboys'' (
1992)
*''
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
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'' (1992) (
TV series)
*''
A Simple Twist of Fate
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'' (
1994
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)
*''
Small Faces
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'' (
1996) co-writer and director
*''
Trojan Eddie'' (1996)
*''
Regeneration'' (
1997
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)
*''
Hideous Kinky'' (
1998
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)
*''
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells'' (
2000
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)
*''
The Escapist'' (
2002)
*''
Pure
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'' (
2002)
*''
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot'' (
2004)
*''
Tara Road'' (
2005)
*''
Castles in the Sky'' (2014)
*''
Whisky Galore!'' (
2016
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)
*''
Torvill & Dean'' (
2018
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) (TV film)
*''
The Last Bus'' (2021)
References
External links
gilliesmackinnon.co.ukOfficial website
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1948 births
Living people
Scottish film directors
Scottish screenwriters
Film people from Glasgow
Alumni of the National Film and Television School
Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art
Alumni of Middlesex University
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