Philip Mackie

Philip Mackie (26 November 1918 – 23 December 1985) was a British film and television screenwriter. He was born in Salford in Lancashire, England. He graduated in 1939 from University College London and worked for the Ministry of Information Films Division which began a career in film.

Work

In August 1955 Mackie became, along with Nigel Kneale, one of the first two staff scriptwriters to be employed by BBC Television; scriptwriters had previously been employed on short-term or freelance contracts.

Mackie was the producer and writer of the acclaimed 1968 ITV historical drama series The Caesars about the Julio-Claudian Roman emperors and later wrote the 1976 series Napoleon and Love, starring Ian Holm, about Napoleon Bonaparte's relationships with his women as a backdrop to his rise and fall as Emperor of the French.

He also wrote the script for the television adaptation of the defiantly exhibitionist homosexual Quentin Crisp's autobiography The Naked Civil Servant, for which John Hurt won the BAFTA for Best Actor in 1976.