Known For
Directing
Born
Mar 25, 1958
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Credits
40 titles
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
Filmography
The Queen Is Dead
Director
Tramps!
Nothing Compares
Self
Marco Polo
Director
Dates
Director
The Borgias
Director
The Edge of Love
Director
Rome
Director
The Jacket
Director
Jubilee: A Time Less Golden
Interviewee
Salò: Fade to Black
Self
Museum of Memory
Director
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Director
Read Only Memory
Director
Maledicta Electronica
Director
Genetron
Director
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
Director
Cyndi Lauper: 12 Deadly Cyns... and Then Some
Director
Premonitions Of Absurd Perversion In Sexual Personae, Part 1
Director
Man to Man
Director
Tunnel of Love
Director
Derek Jarman: A Portrait
Self
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Director
Absurd
Director
Sinéad O'Connor: The Value of Ignorance
Director
The Last of England
Editor
Big Love: An Invitation to Disaster
Director
ScreenPlay
Director
Tortures That Laugh
Director
The Dream Machine
Director
Union Jack Up
Director
Glistening with Energy
Director
Unclean
Director
Pagan Idolatry
Director
Circus Logic I-IV
Director
The Court of Miracles
Director
Waiting for Waiting for Godot
Self
The Technology of Souls
Director
The Alternative Miss World
Self
Glamour Is an Asset
Director