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John Maybury

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
7

Gender
Male

Birthday
March 25, 1958 (68 years old)

Place of Birth
London, England, UK

John Maybury

Biography

John Maybury (born 25 March 1958) is an English filmmaker and artist. He first came to prominence as the director of the music video for the Pet Shop Boys 1984 single "West End Girls". In 2005 he was named as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain.

During the 1980s, Maybury produced a number of short films and music videos including for Sinéad O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U", which was voted #35 in a Channel 4 poll of the greatest pop music videos and received various awards, and "West End Girls" by the Pet Shop Boys, a defining 1980s video. In 1998, Maybury produced his first full-length feature Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, a biopic on the life of painter Francis Bacon starring Derek Jacobi and Daniel Craig. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, he directed The Jacket with Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley. In 2008 his film The Edge of Love, a biopic on the life of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas starring Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys and Keira Knightley premiered. He also directed the final episode of the HBO/BBC Rome series.

Known For

Directing

2024The Queen Is Dead...Director
2014Marco Polo...Director
2013Dates...Director
2011The Borgias...Director
2008The Edge of Love...Director
2005Rome...Director
2005The Jacket...Director
1999Museum of Memory...Director
1998Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon...Director
1998Read Only Memory...Director
1996Maledicta Electronica...Director
1996Genetron...Director
1994Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies...Director
1994Cyndi Lauper: 12 Deadly Cyns... and Then Some...Director
1992Premonitions Of Absurd Perversion In Sexual Personae, Part 1...Director
1992Man to Man...Director
1991Tunnel of Love...Director
1990Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter...Director
1989Absurd...Director
1989Sinéad O'Connor: The Value of Ignorance...Director
1987Big Love: An Invitation to Disaster...Director
1986ScreenPlay...Director
1986Tortures That Laugh...Director
1986The Dream Machine...Director
1985Union Jack Up...Director
1984Pagan Idolatry...Director
1984Glistening with Energy...Director
1984Unclean...Director
1983Circus Logic I-IV...Director
1982The Court of Miracles...Director
1981The Technology of Souls...Director
Glamour Is an Asset...Director

Writing

1998Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon...Screenplay
1994Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies...Writer

Editing

1987The Last of England...Editor

Acting

2023Tramps!as
2022Nothing Comparesas Self
2003Jubilee: A Time Less Goldenas Interviewee
2001Salò: Fade to Blackas Self
1991Derek Jarman: A Portraitas Self
1982Waiting for Waiting for Godotas Self
1980The Alternative Miss Worldas Self