John Summer Gorrie (born 11 August 1932) is an English director and screenwriter. He began his career as an actor, but in early 1963 he completed the BBC's directors' course. His first assignments as a director were for the soap opera Compact and the anthology series Suspense. He directed the
Doctor Who serial The Keys of Marinus. He directed episodes of
Out of the Unknown,
Edward the Seventh (which he also co-wrote),
Play for Today, and
Tales of the Unexpected. Gorrie also directed John Osborne's adaptation of Wilde's novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976) for the
Play of the Month series. In 1979, John Gorrie directed two classics: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (taping dates 16–21 May, first tran...
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