John Maybury

Biography

John Maybury (born 25 March 1958) is an English filmmaker and artist. He first came to prominence as the director of the music video for the Pet Shop Boys 1984 single "West End Girls". In 2005 he was named as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain. During the 1980s, Maybury produced a number of short films and music videos including for Sinéad O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U", which was voted #35 in a Channel 4 poll of the greatest pop music videos and received various awards, and "West End Girls" by the Pet Shop Boys, a defining 1980s video. In 1998, Maybury produced his first full-length feature Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, a biopic on the life of painter Francis Bacon starring Derek Jacobi and Daniel Craig. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, he directed The Jacket with Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley. In 2008 his film The Edge of Love, a biopic on the life of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas starring Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys and Keira Knightley premiered. He also directed the final episode of the HBO/BBC Rome series.

Directed

1. The Jacket (2005) — Director
2. Rome (2005) — Director
3. Marco Polo (2014) — Director
4. The Borgias (2011) — Director
5. The Edge of Love (2008) — Director
6. Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) — Director
7. Dates (2013) — Director
8. Sinéad O'Connor: The Value of Ignorance (1989) — Director
9. The Dream Machine (1986) — Director
10. Read Only Memory (1998) — Director
11. Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies (1994) — Director
12. Cyndi Lauper: 12 Deadly Cyns... and Then Some (1994) — Director
13. Maledicta Electronica (1996) — Director
14. ScreenPlay (1986) — Director
15. Premonitions Of Absurd Perversion In Sexual Personae, Part 1 (1992) — Director
16. The Court of Miracles (1982) — Director
17. Union Jack Up (1985) — Director
18. Absurd (1989) — Director
19. Genetron (1996) — Director
20. Tunnel of Love (1991) — Director
21. Tortures That Laugh (1986) — Director
22. Pagan Idolatry (1984) — Director
23. Glistening with Energy (1984) — Director
24. Circus Logic I-IV (1983) — Director
25. The Technology of Souls (1981) — Director
26. Man to Man (1992) — Director
27. Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter (1990) — Director
28. Big Love: An Invitation to Disaster (1987) — Director
29. The Queen Is Dead (2024) — Director
30. Unclean (1984) — Director
31. Museum of Memory (1999) — Director
32. Glamour Is an Asset — Director

Also appeared in

1. Nothing Compares (2022) — Self
2. Jubilee: A Time Less Golden (2003) — Interviewee
3. Salò: Fade to Black (2001) — Self
4. Tramps! (2023)
5. The Alternative Miss World (1980) — Self
6. Waiting for Waiting for Godot (1982) — Self
7. Derek Jarman: A Portrait (1991) — Self