John Gorrie (director)

John Gorrie (born 11 August 1932, Hastings, East Sussex) 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" (which he also co-wrote), "Play for Today", and "Tales of the Unexpected". Gorrie also directed John Osborne's adaptation of Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1976) for the "Play of the Month" series.
In 1979, John Gorrie directed two classics: Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" (taping dates 16–21 May, first transmitted in the UK on 6 January 1980), and "The Tempest" (taping dates 23–28 July, first transmitted in the UK on 27 February 1980) in the "BBC Television Shakespeare" project.