List of Famous people named Gillies

Similar names: Gilles, Giles, Gillis, Gyles, Gielis, Geilis, Geiles, Gyllis, Gelis. Here are some famous Gillieses:

Gillies MacKinnon

First Name Gillies

Last Name MacKinnon

Born on January 8, 1948 (age 77)

Born in United Kingdom, Scotland

Filmmaker

Gillies MacKinnon is a Scottish film director, writer and painter. He attended the Glasgow School of Art where he studied mural painting. Following this he became an art teacher and cartoonist, and about this time he traveled with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara for six months. In the 1970s he studied at the Middlesex Polytechnic and in the 1980s in the National Film and Television School. He made a short film called Passing Glory as his graduation piece, a dour recreation of Glasgow in the 1950s and 1960s. It was premiered at the 1986 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it won the first Scottish Film Prize.

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