- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- March 25, 1958
- Place of Birth
- London, England, UK
John Maybury
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 w…
Filmography
movieThe Queen Is Dead
2024 · Director
movieTramps!
2023
movieNothing Compares
2022 · Self
tvMarco Polo
2014 · Director
tvDates
2013 · Director
tvThe Borgias
2011 · Director
movieThe Edge of Love
2008 · Director
tvRome
2005 · Director
movieThe Jacket
2005 · Director
Jubilee: A Time Less Golden
movieJubilee: A Time Less Golden
2003 · Interviewee
Salò: Fade to Black
movieSalò: Fade to Black
2001 · Self
Museum of Memory
movieMuseum of Memory
1999 · Director
movieLove Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998 · Director, Screenplay
movieRead Only Memory
1998 · Director
Maledicta Electronica
movieMaledicta Electronica
1996 · Director
Genetron
movieGenetron
1996 · Director
movieRemembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
1994 · Director, Writer
movieCyndi Lauper: 12 Deadly Cyns... and Then Some
1994 · Director
Premonitions Of Absurd Perversion In Sexual Personae, Part 1
moviePremonitions Of Absurd Perversion In Sexual Personae, Part 1
1992 · Director
movieMan to Man
1992 · Director
Tunnel of Love
movieTunnel of Love
1991 · Director
movieDerek Jarman: A Portrait
1991 · Self
movieRed Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990 · Director
Absurd
movieAbsurd
1989 · Director
movieSinéad O'Connor: The Value of Ignorance
1989 · Director
movieThe Last of England
1987 · Editor
Big Love: An Invitation to Disaster
movieBig Love: An Invitation to Disaster
1987 · Director
tvScreenPlay
1986 · Director
Tortures That Laugh
movieTortures That Laugh
1986 · Director
movieThe Dream Machine
1986 · Director
movieUnion Jack Up
1985 · Director
Unclean
movieUnclean
1984 · Director
Pagan Idolatry
moviePagan Idolatry
1984 · Director
Glistening with Energy
movieGlistening with Energy
1984 · Director
Circus Logic I-IV
movieCircus Logic I-IV
1983 · Director
movieWaiting for Waiting for Godot
1982 · Self
movieThe Court of Miracles
1982 · Director
movieThe Technology of Souls
1981 · Director
movieThe Alternative Miss World
1980 · Self
Glamour Is an Asset
movieGlamour Is an Asset
— · Director