Philip Mackie

Philip Mackie (26 November 1918 – 23 December 1985) was a British film and television

In the early 1960s he wrote several screenplays for the series of films made at Merton Park Studios, loosely based on Edgar Wallace stories and novels.

Mackie was the producer and writer of the acclaimed 1968

In 1975 and 1976, Mackie adapted two Graham Greene short stories, “Cheap in August” and “A Drive in the Country,” for episodes of Shades of Greene presented by Thames Television.^[3]

He also wrote the script for the television adaptation of the defiantly exhibitionist homosexual Quentin Crisp's autobiography The Naked Civil Servant, for which John Hurt won the BAFTA for Best Actor in 1976.

In 1977 he adapted the

Family

Mackie had four daughters: Susan, Charlotte, Alexandra, and Barbara. One of his granddaughters is actress Pearl Mackie.^[4]

Selected filmography

Film

• The Whole Truth (1958)
• Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960)
• Clue of the Silver Key (1961)
• Man at the Carlton Tower (1961)
• The Brain (1962)
• The Share Out (1962)
• Number Six (1962)

Television

• Mr. Rose
  (1967–1968)
• The Caesars (1968)
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971)
• The Organization (1972)
• Raffles (1975–1977)
• Napoleon and Love (1974)
• An Englishman's Castle (1978)
• Thérèse Raquin (1980)
• Jemima Shore Investigates (1983)
• The Cleopatras (1983)

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