Gillies MacKinnon
Gillies MacKinnon was born on January 8, 1948. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Gillies MacKinnon
Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948) is a Scottish film director, writer and painter. He was born in Glasgow and attended the Glasgow School of Art where he studied mural painting. Following this he became an art teacher and cartoonist, and about this time he traveled with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara for six months. In the 1970s he studied at the Middlesex Polytechnic (now Middlesex University) and in the 1980s in the National Film and Television School. He made a short film called Passing Glory as his graduation piece, a recreation of Glasgow in the 1950s and 1960s. It was premiered at…