Alexander Mackendrick

Alexander Mackendrick was born in Boston in 1912 to Scottish parents and was raised in Glasgow; an art director in an advertising agency, he ran, during the war, in Italy, the film section of a propaganda service. He worked at Ealing Studios from 1946, then left for Hollywood. He left the cinema to found in 1969 the film school of a Californian art school, where he taught until his death, in 1993.

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• CinemaThe LadykillersAlexander Mackendrick · 1955Cinema