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Gillies MacKinnon

Film Director / Screenwriter | * 01/08/1948 (76) | Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom (UK))
Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948, Glasgow) 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 (now Middlesex University) 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. ()
Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | TV Movies | Romance / Love

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Movies with Gillies MacKinnon as Crew(19)

Directing/Director2021 The Last Bus
Directing/Director2018 Torvill & Dean
Directing/Director2016 Whisky Galore
Directing/Director2014 Castles in the Sky
Directing/Director2007 The History of Mr Polly
Directing/Director2005 Tara Road
Directing/Director2002 Pure
Directing/Director2002 The Escapist
Directing/Director2000 The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Directing/Director1998 Hideous Kinky
Directing/Director1997 Regeneration
Directing/Director1996 Small Faces
Directing/Director1996 Trojan Eddie
Directing/Director1994 A Simple Twist of Fate
Directing/Director1992 The Grass Arena
Directing/Director1992 The Playboys
Directing/Director1990 Needle
Directing/Director1989 Conquest of the South Pole

TV Shows/Series with Gillies MacKinnon as Crew(5)

Directing/Director2015 Clean Break
Directing/Director2009 Above Suspicion
Directing/Director2008 Inspector George Gently
Directing/Director2004 Gunpowder, Treason & Plot

Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Thursday, 01/08 1948 (January) in Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom (UK)) (current age: 76 years + 81 days)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: National Film and Television School, Middlesex University
Gillies MacKinnon frequently works together with these people:
Pia Di Ciaula (6x, Crew)
Shane Connaughton (5x, Actor)
John de Borman (5x, Crew)
Lynda La Plante (4x, Crew)
John E. Keane (4x, Crew)
Andy Harris (4x, Crew)
Steve Martin (3x, Actor)
Kevin McKidd (3x, Actor)
Kate Carin (3x, Crew)
Jimmy Keogh (3x, Actor)
Bunny May (3x, Actor)
Billy Roche (3x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:475880, Added: 10/02/2018, Last updated: 03/25/2024