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Philip Mackie

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Philip Mackie (26th November 1918 - 23 December 1985) was born in Salford in Lancashire, England[1]. He graduated in 1939 from University College, London and worked for the Ministry of Information Films Division which began a career in film.

Work

Mackie was the producer and writer of the acclaimed 1968 ITV historical drama series The Caesars about the Julio-Claudian Roman emperors.
He was the screen writer 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.