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Gillies MacKinnon is a Scottish film director, writer 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 and in the 1980s in the National Film and Television School. He made a short film called Passing Glory as his graduation piece, a dour 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.
Born
Thursday, 08 January 1948
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Scotland on Screen | Self - Director | 2009 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Scotland on Screen | Self - Director | 2009 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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The Last Bus | 2021 |
Torvill & Dean | 2018 |
Whisky Galore | 2017 |
Clean Break | 2015 |
Castles in the Sky | 2014 |
The Village | 2013 |
Above Suspicion | 2009 |
The History of Mr Polly | 2007 |
Inspector George Gently | 2007 |
Tara Road | 2005 |
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot | 2004 |
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot | 2004 |
The Escapist | 2003 |
Pure | 2002 |
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | 2000 |
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song | 2000 |
Hideous Kinky | 1998 |
Trial & Retribution | 1997 |
Behind the Lines | 1997 |
Trojan Eddie | 1996 |
Small Faces | 1996 |
A Simple Twist of Fate | 1994 |
The Playboys | 1992 |
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | 1992 |
Conquest of the South Pole | 1989 |
Screen Two | 1985 |