
Mike Alexander
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1945-05-01 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Scotland
Mike Alexander
Biography
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)
Crew
(2010)
(2000)
Interrogation of a Highland Lass
Director
(1999)
Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith
Producer, Director
(1997)
Cajun Country
Director
(1997)
(1994)
Mairi Mhor
Director
(1993)
As an Eilean
Director, Producer
(1991)
Dreaming
Director
(1991)
Beyond the Maypole
Director
(1988)
(1987)
(1982)
Iona - Dove Across the Water
Director
(1981)
(1979)
Castle and Capital
Director
(1977)
(1976)
Man and Energy
Director
(1975)
The Tent
Director, Writer
(1974)
Dunfermline
Director
(1974)
Lothian Landscape
Director
(1974)
Home and Away
Writer, Director
(1972)
Neil Gunn - Light in the North
Director
(1970)
Aberdeen
Director, Writer
(1969)
The Bodyguard
Director