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Gillies MacKinnon
Highest Rated: 92% The Playboys (1992)
Lowest Rated: 42% Whisky Galore! (2016)
Birthday: Jan 8, 1948
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
A former art teacher and cartoonist, Gillies MacKinnon became intrigued with film and started experimenting with the medium. His work won him acceptance into the National Film School, where he first met future collaborator Shane Connaughton. "Passing Glory" (1986), his graduation film, also marked his first collaboration with his brother Billy, who served as producer. MacKinnon's first film given any wide release was "Conquest of the South Pole," a 1989 docudrama about unemployed Edinburgh youths who attempt to recreate Roald Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole. He followed this with two BBC telefilms, "Needle" (1990) and "The Grass Arena" (1991). The latter, based on the true story of an alcoholic ex-boxer who finds redemption as a chess champion, won MacKinnon the prestigious Michael Powell Award at the 1991 Edinburgh Film Festival.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50% | 76% | The Last Bus | Director | - | 2021 |
| 42% | 49% | Whisky Galore! | Director | - | 2016 |
| 67% | 54% | Castles In The Sky | Director | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | The History of Mr. Polly | Director | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Tara Road | Director | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunpowder, Treason and Plot -- Mary Queen of Scots | Director | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 72% | Pure | Director | $102.0K | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | The Escapist | Director | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Director | - | 2000 |
| 66% | 60% | Hideous Kinky | Director | - | 1998 |
| 60% | 76% | Regeneration | Director | $19.3K | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Trojan Eddie | Director | $11.9K | 1996 |
| 60% | 87% | Small Faces | Director | $160.7K | 1995 |
| 43% | 56% | A Simple Twist of Fate | Director | $3.4M | 1994 |
| 92% | 53% | The Playboys | Director | $4.9M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Love's Sweet Song | Director | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Grass Arena | Director | - | 1991 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inspector George Gently | Director | 2011 |
| 78% | 87% | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Director | 1993 |