About

Known credits:
28
Birthday:
1945-05-01
Place of birth:
Scotland
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Mike Alexander

Overview

Mike Alexander is a Scottish filmmaker. He co-founded the independent Glasgow-based production company Pelicula Films Ltd in 1972 with Mark Littlewood. Through Pelicula Films, he produced a variety of different films, both fiction and documentary. Working in long close association with writer and producer Dougla Eadie, his music credits include Transatlantic Sessions, Down Home with Aly Bain in North America, Beyond The Maypole, Aly Meets The Cajuns, The Jazz Apple and Follow The Moonstone.

Outside of music, the Alexander/Eadie collaborations include: the Gaelic drama, As An Eilean (“From The Island”) winner of best feature film award at the 1993 Festival of the Americas in Montevideo, Uruguay; Gramsci – Everything That Concerns People, a dramatised portrait of the great Italian socialist writer; Haston – A Life In The Mountains, the life and times of the legendary Dougal Haston, enfant terrible of Scottish climbing; and Fishing For Poetry, with Billy Connolly, Aly Bain and Andrew Greig celebrating the centenary of the birth of the great Scottish poet, Norman MacCaig, by trekking high into the hills of MacCaig’s beloved Assynt to find and fish his favourite trout loch.

Known for

Acting
1969 The Bodyguard Actor N/A
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Directing
2010 Fishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaig Directing Director N/A
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2000 Interrogation of a Highland Lass Directing Director N/A
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1999 Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith Directing Director N/A
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1997 Retying the Knot: The Incredible String Band Directing Director N/A
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1997 Cajun Country Directing Director N/A
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1994 Mairi Mhor Directing Director N/A
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1993 As an Eilean Directing Director N/A
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1991 Beyond the Maypole Directing Director N/A
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1991 Dreaming Directing Director N/A
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1988 Stephen Hendry: Doing the Business Directing Director N/A
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1987 Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People Directing Director N/A
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1982 Iona - Dove Across the Water Directing Director N/A
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1981 Stock of Broom - The Edinburgh Merchant Company Directing Director N/A
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1979 Castle and Capital Directing Director N/A
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1977 Norman MacCaig: A Man in My Position Directing Director N/A
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1975 The Tent Directing Director N/A
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1974 Home and Away Directing Director N/A
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1974 Dunfermline Directing Director N/A
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1974 Lothian Landscape Directing Director N/A
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1972 Neil Gunn - Light in the North Directing Director N/A
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1970 Aberdeen Directing Director N/A
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1969 The Bodyguard Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1975 The Tent Writing Writer N/A
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1974 Home and Away Writing Writer N/A
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1970 Aberdeen Writing Writer N/A
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Production
1999 Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith Production Producer N/A
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1993 As an Eilean Production Producer N/A
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