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
6.7Story 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
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
7.0The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.
Clue of the Silver Key
1961
7.0Fred 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
5.8After 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
6.0A 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
Behind the camera
6.7Story 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
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
7.0The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.
Clue of the Silver Key
1961
7.0Fred 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
5.8After 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
6.0A 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
9.0An 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
NRAn 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
NRA 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
NRThe police investigate the murder of an officer, killed during a jewel robbery.
Man at the Carlton Tower
1961
6.5TV 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
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
7.0A 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
4.0A gang of high class corporate thieves use blackmail to induce their victims to sell property at knock-down prices.
The Share Out
1962
Two egotistical superstars develop a grand passion which threatens to disrupt a West End theatre production.
Across a Crowded Room
1978
7.0In Copenhagen, a former resistance fighter seeks the traitor responsible for betraying his comrades during World War II.
The Right Person
1955
