Alexander Mackendrick was an American-born Scottish film director and screenwriter, born in Boston on 8 September 1912 and died on 22 December 1993. He directed nine feature films between 1949 and 1967 before retiring from filmmaking to become an influential professor at the California Institute of the Arts. Born to Scottish parents in Boston, he was raised in Glasgow from the age of six, and his films for Ealing Studios include Whisky Galore! (1949), The Man in the White Suit (1951), The Maggie (1954) and The Ladykillers (1955).
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