# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gillies-mackinnon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:36:21.232Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gillies-mackinnon"
name: "Gillies MacKinnon"
slug: "gillies-mackinnon"
description: "Gillies MacKinnon is a Scottish film director, writer and painter. He was born in Glasgow and attended the Glasgow School of Art where he studied mural painting. Following this he became an art teacher and cartoonist, and about this time he traveled with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara for six months."
tagline: "Scottish screenwriter and film director"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-01-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.01
  momentum:             16.16959064327486
  historical:           7.227504
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0533564/"
    handle:    "nm0533564"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%86"
    title: "جیلیز میک کینن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جيليس ماكينون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillies_MacKinnon"
    title: "Gillies MacKinnon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillies_MacKinnon"
    title: "Gillies MacKinnon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "گیلیز مک‌کینون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillies_MacKinnon"
    title: "Gillies MacKinnon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillies_MacKinnon"
    title: "Gillies MacKinnon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillies_Mackinnon"
    title: "Gillies Mackinnon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3106623"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump