Directing
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Man
1 May 1945 (79)
Scotland
Mike Alexander
Mike Alexander is a Scottish filmmaker. He co-founded the independent Glasgow-based production company Pelicula Films Ltd in 1972 with Mark Littlewood. Through Pelicula Films, he produced a variety of different films, both fiction and documentary. Working in long close association with writer and producer Dougla Eadie, his music credits include Transatlantic Sessions, Down Home with Aly Bain in North America, Beyond The Maypole, Aly Meets The Cajuns, The Jazz Apple and Follow The Moonstone. Outside of music, the Alexander/Eadie collaborations include: the Gaelic drama, As An Eilean (“From The Island”) winner of best feature film award at the 1993 Festival of the Americas in Montevideo, Uruguay; Gramsci – Everything That Concerns People, a dramatised portrait of the great Italian socialist writer; Haston – A Life In The Mountains, the life and times of the legendary Dougal Haston, enfant terrible of Scottish climbing; and Fishing For Poetry, with Billy Connolly, Aly Bain and Andrew Greig celebrating the centenary of the birth of the great Scottish poet, Norman MacCaig, by trekking high into the hills of MacCaig’s beloved Assynt to find and fish his favourite trout loch.
| Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | The Bodyguard |
| Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Fishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaig | Director |
| 2000 | Interrogation of a Highland Lass | Director |
| 1999 | Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith | Producer |
| 1999 | Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith | Director |
| 1997 | Retying the Knot: The Incredible String Band | Director |
| 1997 | Cajun Country | Director |
| 1994 | Mairi Mhor | Director |
| 1993 | As an Eilean | Director |
| 1993 | As an Eilean | Producer |
| 1991 | Dreaming | Director |
| 1991 | Beyond the Maypole | Director |
| 1988 | Stephen Hendry: Doing the Business | Director |
| 1987 | Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People | Director |
| 1982 | Iona - Dove Across the Water | Director |
| 1981 | Stock of Broom - The Edinburgh Merchant Company | Director |
| 1979 | Castle and Capital | Director |
| 1977 | Norman MacCaig: A Man in My Position | Director |
| 1975 | The Tent | Director |
| 1975 | The Tent | Writer |
| 1974 | Dunfermline | Director |
| 1974 | Lothian Landscape | Director |
| 1974 | Home and Away | Writer |
| 1974 | Home and Away | Director |
| 1972 | Neil Gunn - Light in the North | Director |
| 1970 | Aberdeen | Director |
| 1970 | Aberdeen | Writer |
| 1969 | The Bodyguard | Director |