John Gorrie (director)
John Gorrie is an English director and screenwriter. He began his career as an actor, but in early 1963 he completed the BBCs director's course. His first assignments as a director were for the soap opera Compact and the anthology series Suspense. He directed the Doctor Who serial The Keys of Marinus.
He directed episodes of Out of the Unknown, Edward the Seventh, Play for Today, and Tales of the Unexpected. Gorrie also directed John Osborne's adaptation of Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray for the Play of the Month series.
In 1979, John Gorrie directed two classics: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and The Tempest in the BBC Television Shakespeare project.
