
Director
John Mackenzie
Born August 16, 1932 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UKDied June 8, 201134 films
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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First watchThe Long Good Friday19807.2In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a…View filmEssential films
Ranked by acclaim and reachFilmography
34 films as director- 2007Paul McCartney: The McCartney YearsDirector
- 2003QuicksandDirector
- 2000When the Sky FallsDirector
- 1998Aldrich Ames: Traitor WithinDirector
- 1996Deadly VoyageDirector
- 1995The InfiltratorDirector
- 1993VoyageDirector
- 1992RubyDirector
- 1990The Last of the FinestDirector
- 1987The Fourth ProtocolDirector
- 1986Act of VengeanceDirector
- 1985A Sense of FreedomDirector
- 1985The InnocentDirector
- 1983The Honorary ConsulDirector
- 1982Paul McCartney - Take It AwayDirector
- 1981Say No to StrangersDirector
- 1980The Long Good FridayDirector
- 1979Just a Boys' GameDirector
- 1978Red ShiftDirector
- 1977Talkin' BluesDirector
- 1976The Elephants' GraveyardDirector
- 1976Double DareDirector
- 1975A Passage to EnglandDirector
- 1975Just Another SaturdayDirector
- 1974Taking LeaveDirector
- 1974The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black OilDirector
- 1973Shut DownDirector
- 1973The Black DogDirector
- 1972MadeDirector
- 1971Unman, Wittering and ZigoDirector
- 1971One Brief SummerDirector
- 1969There Is Also TomorrowDirector
- 1968Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After ItDirector
- 1967The Voices in the ParkDirector

