John Gorrie

Who is John Gorrie?

John Gorrie in Hastings, East Sussex, England) is an English director and screenwriter.

He started out as an actor. In early 1963, he attended BBCs director's course. His first jobs as a director were for the soap opera Compact and the anthology series Suspense. He also directed the Doctor Who serial The Keys of Marinus.

Gorrie also directed episodes of Out of the Unknown, Edward the Seventh, Play of the Month, Play for Today, and Tales of the Unexpected. Gorrie also directed John Osborne's adaptation of Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1976.

In 1979, John Gorrie directed two classics: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and The Tempest in the BBC Television Shakespeare project.