Cast & creator
John Maybury
Best known for Rome, The Borgias, ScreenPlay
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.
Also known as: Джон Мэйбери
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film credits
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television credits
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1980–2023 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (42)
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Rome
Director
2005
The Borgias
Director
2011
ScreenPlay
Director
1986
Marco Polo
Director
2014
The Jacket
Director
2005
Dates
Director
2013
The Edge of Love
Director
2008
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Director
1998Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Screenplay
1998L'ispirazione
Editor
1988
The Last of England
Editor
1987
Tramps!
2023
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Director
1990
Cyndi Lauper: 12 Deadly Cyns... and Then Some
Director
1994
Nothing Compares
Self
2022
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
Director
1994Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
Writer
1994Salò: Fade to Black
Self
2001Jubilee: A Time Less Golden
Interviewee
2003
Derek Jarman: A Portrait
Self
1991
Waiting for Waiting for Godot
Self
1982
The Alternative Miss World
Self
1980
Sinéad O'Connor: The Value of Ignorance
Director
1989
Man to Man
Director
1992Big Love: An Invitation to Disaster
Director
1987
The Court of Miracles
Director
1982
Read Only Memory
Director
1998
The Dream Machine
Director
1986
The Technology of Souls
Director
1981Premonitions Of Absurd Perversion In Sexual Personae, Part 1
Director
1992Unclean
Director
1984
Union Jack Up
Director
1985Glamour Is an Asset
Director
Circus Logic I-IV
Director
1983Maledicta Electronica
Director
1996Museum of Memory
Director
1999Glistening with Energy
Director
1984Absurd
Director
1989Tunnel of Love
Director
1991Genetron
Director
1996Tortures That Laugh
Director
1986Pagan Idolatry
Director
1984