Gillies MacKinnon
Gillies MacKinnon ( born January 8, 1948 in Glasgow, Scotland ) is a British film director and screenwriter. He became internationally known through the movies The Playboys, Twist of Fate, Small Faces, Marrakech and a house in Ireland.
Life and career
Gillies MacKinnon, born in Glasgow in 1948, after studying the mural painting at the Glasgow School of Art, first as an art teacher and a professional cartoonist. Subsequently, he studied from 1983 to 1986 at the National Film and Television School to make a career in the film industry. His graduation film Passing Glory, celebrated in 1986 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 's premiere, where she won the first prize.
His TV movie debut, he finally gave in 1989 with the adventure drama Conquest of the South Pole. 1992 staged MacKinnon then with the romantic drama The Playboys with Albert Finney and Aidan Quinn in the lead roles, his first feature film. With the U.S. actor Steve Martin in 1994 he turned the comedy of Fate. In 1996 he succeeded to the award-winning teen drama Small Faces one of his biggest international successes. As a cameraman he engaged John de Borman, with whom he was to turn four more movies later. 1998 saw the film drama Marrakech with the young Kate Winslet as the female lead role, which was a year before just gained with the epic film Titanic to international stardom. In 2002, MacKinnon then filmed two substances. For one, the crime film hunting for vengeance in the cast Jonny Lee Miller and Andy Serkis, on the other hand the drama A child of sadness with Harry Eden, Molly Parker and David Wenham in the lead roles. In 2005, he then directed the romantic drama film A house in Ireland directing. It played Olivia Williams, Andie MacDowell and Iain Glen.
Since 2007, then, MacKinnon worked exclusively for television movies and episodes of well-known television series, which he had already turned in the 1990s at irregular intervals.
MacKinnon lives in Stroud Green, North London. Gillies MacKinnon is the brother of screenwriter Billy MacKinnon.