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Compton Mackenzie is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer British born on 17 january 1883

Compton Mackenzie

Compton Mackenzie
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Birth name Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 17 january 1883
Death 30 november 1972 (at 89 years) at Edinburgh (United-kingdom)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Sir Compton Mackenzie, OBE (/ˈkʌmptən məˈkɛnzɪ/; 1883–1972) was a prolific writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the Scottish National Party along with Hugh MacDiarmid, RB Cunninghame Graham and John MacCormick. He was knighted in 1952.

Biography

Il étudie l'histoire moderne au Magdalen College de l'université d'Oxford. Il devient ensuite écrivain, dramaturge et critique littéraire pour le Daily Mail.

Il se convertit au catholicisme en 1914 et développe des thèmes reliés à la foi dans sa trilogie romanesque The Altar Steps (1922), The Parson's Progress (1923) et The Heavenly Ladder (1924). Son titre le plus connu demeure néanmoins le roman humoristique Whisky à gogo (Whisky Galore, 1947), adapté au cinéma en 1949 sous le titre Whisky à gogo par Alexander Mackendrick.

Homosexuel notoire, il développe une véritable passion pour les îles, ce qui l'amène à séjourner longuement à Capri, où il rencontre d'autres homosexuels britanniques en exil. Il aime également les îles Anglo-Normandes de Herm et de Jéthou, proches de Guernesey. Il habite d'ailleurs Herm de 1920 à 1923, puis Jéthou de 1923 à 1931. Il s'est ensuite retiré sur l'île de Barra en Écosse.

Dans L'homme qui aimait les îles, D.H. Lawrence fait le portrait d'un homme qui lui ressemble à s'y méprendre, au point que Compton Mackenzie a tenté d'empêcher la publication de cette longue nouvelle.

Usually with

Bernard Miles
Bernard Miles
(2 films)
Guy Green
Guy Green
(1 films)
Finlay Currie
Finlay Currie
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Compton Mackenzie (7 films)

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Actor

Chance of a Lifetime, 1h29
Directed by Bernard Miles
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Basil Radford, Kenneth More, Niall MacGinnis, Bernard Miles, Geoffrey Keen, John Harvey
Roles Sir Robert Dysart
Rating67% 3.3806553.3806553.3806553.3806553.380655
In the times of austerity after the Second World War a failing factory's owner hands the factory over to the workers to run it for themselves.
Whisky Galore!, 1h22
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Gordon Jackson, Wylie Watson
Roles Captain Buncher
Rating70% 3.5459653.5459653.5459653.5459653.545965
The inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday in the Outer Hebrides are largely unaffected by wartime rationing, until the supply of whisky runs out in 1943. Then gloom descends on the disconsolate natives.

Scriptwriter

Rockets Galore, 1h34
Directed by Michael Leighton George Relph
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Jeannie Carson, Donald Sinden, Roland Culver, Noel Purcell, Catherine Lacey, Ronnie Corbett
Roles Novel
Rating59% 2.9547352.9547352.9547352.9547352.954735
In the cold-war era of post-WW2 Britain, the government decides to establish a guided missile base on the Hebridean isle of Todday. The inhabitants are not happy with this disruption of their way of life, and hamper construction as much as they can.
Whisky Galore!, 1h22
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Gordon Jackson, Wylie Watson
Roles Créateur de nouvelle
Rating70% 3.5459653.5459653.5459653.5459653.545965
The inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday in the Outer Hebrides are largely unaffected by wartime rationing, until the supply of whisky runs out in 1943. Then gloom descends on the disconsolate natives.
Carnival
Carnival (1946)
, 1h33
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Sally Gray, Michael Wilding, Stanley Holloway, Bernard Miles, Jean Kent, Catherine Lacey
Roles Writer
Rating59% 2.9646852.9646852.9646852.9646852.964685
Story of a ballet dancer of the Edwardian era. From the novel by Compton Mackenzie.
Sylvia Scarlett, 1h35
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne, Edmund Gwenn, Nathalie Paley, Dennie Moore
Roles Novel
Rating62% 3.100513.100513.100513.100513.10051
Sylvia Scarlett (Katharine Hepburn) and her father, Henry (Edmund Gwenn), flee France one step ahead of the police. Henry, while employed as a bookkeeper for a lace factory, was discovered to be an embezzler. While on the channel ferry, they meet a "gentleman adventurer", Jimmy Monkley (Cary Grant), who partners with them in his con games.
Dance Pretty Lady, 1h4
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Flora Robson, Ann Casson, Carl Harbord, Moore Marriott, Norman Claridge, Rene Ray
Roles Novel
Rating68% 3.416313.416313.416313.416313.41631
A working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist during the Edwardian era, against a background of sharp disapproval.

Producer

Carnival
Carnival (1946)
, 1h33
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Sally Gray, Michael Wilding, Stanley Holloway, Bernard Miles, Jean Kent, Catherine Lacey
Roles Producer
Rating59% 2.9646852.9646852.9646852.9646852.964685
Story of a ballet dancer of the Edwardian era. From the novel by Compton Mackenzie.