Alexander Mackendrick Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Alexander Mackendrick (September 8, 1912 – December 22, 1993) was an American born Scottish director and teacher. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and later moved to Scotland. He began making television commercials before moving into post-production editing and directing films, most notably for Ealing Studios where his films include Whisky Galore! (1949), The Man in the White Suit (1951), and The Ladykillers (1955).His films made a gradual decline after Ealing Studios closed and he returned to America to become a teacher of filmmaking. He was the cousin of the Scottish writer Roger MacDougall.
[on Whisky Galore (1949)] It looks like a home-movie; it doesn't look as if it was made by a professional at all. And it wasn't.
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The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.
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Movies are an incidental byproduct of deals.
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Sometimes hysteria in production problems can be communicated successfully as energy up on the screen.
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Children are often better actors than adults, because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.
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There's a moment towards the end of certain kinds of comedy when they ought to get a little nasty.
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The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself--it will teach you humility if nothing else.
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Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am in fact 100% American.
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Although he was replaced as director of The Devil's Disciple (1959), it has been claimed that all of Laurence Olivier's scenes in the film were directed by him.
Prior to entering the film business, Mackendrick worked as an art director at a London advertising agency. One of the animators who worked with him was future producer/director George Pal.
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In 1969 he became Dean of the Film Department at the California Institute for the Arts. He stayed there for several years, then began teaching and did that until his death in 1993.
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