
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.

Just Another Saturday

Just a Boys' Game

Looking After Jo Jo

Red Shift

The Elephants' Graveyard

The Long Good Friday

Centre Play

Unman, Wittering and Zigo

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

A Sense of Freedom

The Fourth Protocol

Play for Today

Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within

The Last of the Finest

The Infiltrator

The Honorary Consul

Act of Vengeance

Made

The Innocent

Ruby

Deadly Voyage

One Brief Summer

Voyage

Quicksand

When the Sky Falls

Country Matters

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

Double Dare

Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It

Talkin' Blues

Taking Leave

A Passage to England

Shut Down

There Is Also Tomorrow