David McGillivray

David McGillivray

Birthday: 1947-09-07

Place of Birth: London, England, UK

Biography: David McGillivray has contributed to radio, TV, films and theatre, began as a film journalist and bit player. His stints as a contributor to the magazine "Films and Filming" and assistant editor of the British Film Institute's "Monthly Film Bulletin" resulted first in him writing screenplays for director Pete Walker and later writing the book "Doing Rude Things". The films were not commercially successful and McGillivray's scripts attracted mostly hostile reviews. He moved to theatre, co-writing lowbrow farces for his own company. During this period he met Julian Clary, who was starting out as a stand-up comic. McGillivray has continued to this day to write for Clary.

Movies

Satan's Slave
Satan's Slave

A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her wicked uncle and cousin. She can trust no one a...

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Loops
Loops

A troubled man battles his mental illness as he attempts to fix an issue from his past in a bid to s...

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Mark of the Devil: Mark of the Times
Mark of the Devil: Mark of the Times

A documentary about the 'new wave' of British horror directors and their films in the 1960s and 1970...

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Sex and Fame: The Mary Millington Story
Sex and Fame: The Mary Millington Story

Channel 4 documentary charting the meteoric rise and equally swift decline of Mary Millington, the g...

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The Estrogen Gospel
The Estrogen Gospel

A young transgender woman takes a hike through the English countryside in an attempt to resolve her ...

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The Highgate Vampyre
The Highgate Vampyre

Documentary filmmakers investigate reports of a vampire at Highgate Cemetery in London. They witness...

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Damaged: The Very British Obscenity of David Hamilton-Grant
Damaged: The Very British Obscenity of David Hamilton-Grant

Explores the salacious career of mysterious British filmmaker and distributor David Hamilton-Grant, ...

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From Romero to Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Zombie Movie
From Romero to Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Zombie Movie

The history of Italian zombie cinema, beginning with the breakout worldwide influence and success of...

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Carry On Girls
Carry On Girls

Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seasi...

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Abracadaver!
Abracadaver!

A demented magician seeks a new assistant in this gruesome tale of magic and mutilation. Part of BFI...

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Scala!!!
Scala!!!

This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs...

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Frightmare
Frightmare

In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she fo...

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The Wicker Man At 50
The Wicker Man At 50

Justin Hardy, the son of the films Director, Robin Hardy talks to various experts about his father's...

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The Perfect Scary Movie
The Perfect Scary Movie

A documentary looking at the various conventions and scare techniques of the horror genre....

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Worst Fears
Worst Fears

Seven nightmarish tales from legendary British horror film writer and producer David McGillivray....

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Horror Icon
Horror Icon

FrightFest premiered this never-before-seen documentary HORROR ICON in honour of legendary genre per...

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Doing Rude Things
Doing Rude Things

A light-hearted celebration of British sex films from the 1950s to the early 1980s. Presented by Ang...

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VHS Forever? | Psychotronic People
VHS Forever? | Psychotronic People

A feature length documentary shot over 9 months taking a look at the explosion of movies that became...

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House of Whipcord
House of Whipcord

Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warde...

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Contact
Contact

Director-choreographer Susan Stroman and librettist John Weidman construct an evening of three dance...

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I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight
I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight

Virginal nerd Jon Pigeon, manages to secure a job in a sex research institute where the patients run...

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Tales of the Uncanny
Tales of the Uncanny

A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films....

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Turn Off Your Bloody Phone: Norman J. Warren and the Ghost
Turn Off Your Bloody Phone: Norman J. Warren and the Ghost

Short produced for FrightFest, starring Warren, Sun, and David McGillivray....

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The Emmanuelle Effect
The Emmanuelle Effect

The very first feature-length discussion and breakdown of the entire "Emmanuelle" phenomenon - the a...

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Children of the Wicker Man
Children of the Wicker Man

Fifty years after The Wicker Man (1973), director Robin Hardy’s lost papers resurface, prompting his...

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A Very English Exploitation: Inseminoid and the Shock Cinema of Norman J. Warren
A Very English Exploitation: Inseminoid and the Shock Cinema of Norman J. Warren

A documentary on the life and career of the legendary British exploitation film director Norman J. W...

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