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name: "Joseph McGrath"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joseph-mcgrath"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "28 March 1928"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T11:52:47.088261+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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# Joseph McGrath

Director. Born 28 March 1928 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 28 March 1928, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McGrath_(film_director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6285469, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569825/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/47792

## Biography

Joseph McGrath (born 28 March 1928) is a Scottish film and television director and screenwriter. He was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art.

McGrath is best known for his collaborations with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. He directed scenes featuring Sellers and Orson Welles in the multi-director film *Casino Royale* (1967) and directed *The Magic Christian* (1969) and *The Great McGonagall* (1974). He also directed episodes of television series including *Rising Damp* (1980) and worked on early music videos for the Beatles.

In the 2004 film *The Life and Death of Peter Sellers*, Alan Williams played the unnamed director of *Casino Royale* referred to as 'Joe'.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Casino Royale* (1967), Fi1m 50, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/casino-royale-1967.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *Night Train to Murder* (1984), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Good Night And God Bless* (1983), series, Executive Producer, Writer
- *Rising Damp* (1980), Director
- *The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It* (1977), Screenplay, Director
- *I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight* (1976), Director
- *Girls Come First* (1975), Director
- *The Great McGonagall* (1975), Director, Screenplay
- *Zodiac* (1974), series, Director
- *Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World* (1973), Director
- *Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman* (1973), Writer
- *The Magic Christian* (1969), Screenplay, Director
- *The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom* (1968), Director, Story
- *30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!* (1968), Director, Writer
- *Casino Royale* (1967), Director — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/casino-royale-1967.md)
- *One Man Band* (1965), as Switched On Sammy (as Joe McGrath)
- *Not Only... But Also* (1964), series, Writer, Producer
- *The Big Noise* (1964), series, Producer
- *Battle of New Orleans* (1960), Acting

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