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Mackenzie died following a stroke on 8 June 2011, some three weeks after his 83rd birthday. He is survived by his three daughters (Colyn, Katherine and Rebecca) by Wendy Marshall, whom he married in 1956 and who predeceased him.
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Initially, Mackenzie worked on television plays, following his apprenticeship with Loach. During this period he directed episodes of
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film director who worked in British film from the late 1960s, first as an
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The greatest success that Mackenzie enjoyed in his American period was
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People educated at St Augustine's High School, Edinburgh
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was surpassed, however, by Mackenzie's next film, the
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John Mackenzie
Edinburgh
Scottish
University of Edinburgh
Film director
Scottish
assistant director
director
Edinburgh
Holy Cross Academy
University of Edinburgh
Gateway Theatre Company
London
Ken Loach
assistant director
Up the Junction
Cathy Come Home
The Jazz Age
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
There Is Also Tomorrow
One Brief Summer
Unman, Wittering and Zigo
Giles Cooper
radio play
Made
A Sense of Freedom
BAFTA
gangster
The Long Good Friday
Bob Hoskins

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