Writing

Philip Mackie

Born — Died

1918-11-26 — 1985-12-23

Place of birth

Salford, Lancashire, England, UK

Known for

Writing

Credits

16 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Naked Civil Servant poster
6.7

Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.

The Naked Civil Servant

1975

No artwork available
NR

A columnist throws a dinner party. One of the guests is his mistress, who is his research assistant. He tells his wife he had been having an affair and she is devastated, but they both agree that the party should go ahead.

A Marriage

1972

Clue of the Silver Key poster
7.0

The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.

Clue of the Silver Key

1961

All the Way Up poster
7.0

Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains, but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman, he must make his family more socially acceptable.

All the Way Up

1970

The Brain poster
5.8

After the mysterious crash of a millionaire's private plane, scientists secretly harvest the dying man's brain and keep it alive in a laboratory in order to communicate via telepathy.

The Brain

1962

Praying Mantis poster
6.0

A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.

Praying Mantis

1982

The £20,000 Kiss poster
9.0

An up and coming politician is caught in a compromising photograph taken by a maid, who turns out to be part of a sophisticated blackmail ring. When the girl is found murdered, he holds an incriminating old dueling pistol.

The £20,000 Kiss

1962

Number Six poster
NR

An international criminal arrives in London, and a detective is anxious to pin something on him for some unprovable murders of former lovers. The villain starts to suspect servants and henchmen of being a police spy known as "Number Six".

Number Six

1962

The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family poster
NR

A film tycoon hires the wrong writer. Instead of getting the writer of Lawrence of Arabia, he gets someone whose only credits are two episodes of Coronation Street.

The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family

1973

Man at the Carlton Tower poster
NR

The police investigate the murder of an officer, killed during a jewel robbery.

Man at the Carlton Tower

1961

Clue of the New Pin poster
6.5

TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside the corpse.

Clue of the New Pin

1961

No artwork available
9.0

Mark Omney is a struggling writer, and has a drink problem; his wife Clare is more successful as a journalist. After a dinner-party they host ends badly, they part company the next morning on separate business. Clare becomes ill after an interview assignment, and crashes her car; meanwhile Mark meets former girlfriend Annabelle in the pub. After Clare is taken to a private clinic nearby by Good Samaritans, Mark finds she seems to have mysteriously disappeared

The Limbo Connection

1978

Clue of the Twisted Candle poster
7.0

A man is murdered in a room with no windows and a steel lined door which locks only from the inside.

Clue of the Twisted Candle

1960

The Share Out poster
4.0

A gang of high class corporate thieves use blackmail to induce their victims to sell property at knock-down prices.

The Share Out

1962

No artwork available
NR

Two egotistical superstars develop a grand passion which threatens to disrupt a West End theatre production.

Across a Crowded Room

1978

The Right Person poster
7.0

In Copenhagen, a former resistance fighter seeks the traitor responsible for betraying his comrades during World War II.

The Right Person

1955