Alexander Mackendrick (September 8, 1912 - December 22, 1993) was a British-American film director and teacher.
Alexander Mackendrick was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the only child of Francis Robert Mackendrick and Martha Mackendrick. They had emigrated to the United States from Glasgow in 1911. His father was a ship builder and a civil engineer. When Mackendrick was six, his father fell victim to the influenza pandemic that swept the w...
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Alexander Mackendrick (September 8, 1912 - December 22, 1993) was a British-American film director and teacher.
Alexander Mackendrick was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the only child of Francis Robert Mackendrick and Martha Mackendrick. They had emigrated to the United States from Glasgow in 1911. His father was a ship builder and a civil engineer. When Mackendrick was six, his father fell victim to the influenza pandemic that swept the world just after World War I. His mother, in desperate need of work, decided to be a dress designer. In order to pursue that decision, it was necessary for Martha MacKendrick to hand her only son over to his grandfather, who took young MacKendrick back to Scotland when he was seven years old. The boy never saw or heard from his mother again.
Young Alexander Mackendrick had a very sad and lonely childhood. He attended Hillhead High School from 1919 to 1926 and then went on to spend three years at the Glasgow School of Art. In the early 1930’s,...
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