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name: "Gillies MacKinnon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gillies-mackinnon"
fi1m_id: "gillies-mackinnon"
imdb_id: "nm0533564"
tmdb_id: 33405
wikidata_id: "Q3106623"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "8 January 1948"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T16:40:26.001524+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Gillies MacKinnon

## Identity

Gillies MacKinnon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gillies-mackinnon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gillies-mackinnon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0533564
- **TMDB ID:** 33405
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3106623
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillies_MacKinnon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3106623, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0533564/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33405

Director. Born 8 January 1948 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 8 January 1948, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- **Active:** 1991–2013
- **Also known as:** Gillies Mackinnon
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillies_MacKinnon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3106623, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0533564/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33405

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Village*](https://film.one/tv/the-village-2013.md) (78)

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## Biography

Gillies MacKinnon (also credited as Gillies Mackinnon) is a Scottish film and television director, writer and painter. He was born on 8 January 1948 in Glasgow and studied mural painting at Glasgow School of Art. He later trained at Middlesex Polytechnic and the National Film and Television School, where his graduation short *Passing Glory* (1986) won the first Scottish Film Prize at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

MacKinnon began directing for television with films including *Needle* (1990) and *The Grass Arena* (1991). His feature films include *The Playboys* (1992), *A Simple Twist of Fate* (1994), *Small Faces* (1996, which he co-wrote), *Regeneration* (1997) and *Hideous Kinky* (1998). He has also directed episodes of series such as *The Village* (2013) and later features including *Whisky Galore!* (2016) and *The Last Bus* (2021).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, screenonline.org.uk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Village* (2013), Fi1m 78, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-village-2013.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Last Bus* (2021), Director
- *Torvill & Dean* (2018), Director
- *Whisky Galore* (2016), Director
- *Clean Break* (2015), series, Director
- *Castles in the Sky* (2014), Director
- *The Village* (2013), series, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-village-2013.md)
- *Zig Zag Love* (2009), Director
- *Above Suspicion* (2009), series, Director
- *Inspector George Gently* (2008), series, Director
- *The History of Mr Polly* (2007), Director
- *Tara Road* (2005), Director
- *Gunpowder, Treason & Plot* (2004), series, Director
- *Pure* (2002), Director
- *The Escapist* (2002), Director
- *The Last of the Blonde Bombshells* (2000), Director
- *The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song* (2000), Director
- *Hideous Kinky* (1999), Director
- *Regeneration* (1997), Director
- *Trojan Eddie* (1996), Director
- *Small Faces* (1996), Director, Writer
- *A Simple Twist of Fate* (1994), Director
- *The Playboys* (1992), Director
- *The Grass Arena* (1991), Director
- *Needle* (1990), Director
- *Conquest of the South Pole* (1989), Director
- *Passing Glory* (1986), Director, Writer
- *ScreenPlay* (1986), series, Director
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, Director, Writer

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