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John Maybury
London, England, UK
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 Gi…
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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.
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2023
Tramps!
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2022
Nothing Compares
Movie Self
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2014
Marco Polo
TV show Director
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2013
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TV show Director
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2011
The Borgias
TV show Director
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2008
The Edge of Love
Movie Director
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2005
Rome
TV show Director
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2005
The Jacket
Movie Director
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2003
Jubilee: A Time Less Golden
Movie Interviewee
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2001
Salò: Fade to Black
Movie Self
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1999
Museum of Memory
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1998
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
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1998
Read Only Memory
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1996
Maledicta Electronica
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1996
Genetron
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1994
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
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1994
Cyndi Lauper: 12 Deadly Cyns... and Then Some
Movie Director
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1992
Premonitions Of Absurd Perversion In Sexual Personae, Part 1
Movie Director
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1992
Man to Man
Movie Director
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1991
Tunnel of Love
Movie Director
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1991
Derek Jarman: A Portrait
Movie Self
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1990
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Movie Director
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1989
Absurd
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1989
Sinéad O'Connor: The Value of Ignorance
Movie Director
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1987
The Last of England
Movie Editor
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1987
Big Love: An Invitation to Disaster
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1986
ScreenPlay
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1986
Tortures That Laugh
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1986
The Dream Machine
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1985
Union Jack Up
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1984
Glistening with Energy
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1984
Pagan Idolatry
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1984
Unclean
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1983
Circus Logic I-IV
Movie Director
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1982
The Court of Miracles
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1982
Waiting for Waiting for Godot
Movie Self
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1981
The Technology of Souls
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1980
The Alternative Miss World
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Glamour Is an Asset
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