David McGillivray (director)
| David McGillivray | |
|---|---|
| Born |
7 September 1947 London, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actor, film producer, writer |
David McGillivray (born 7 September 1947 in London) is an actor, producer, playwright, screenwriter and film critic.
Originally a critic for Monthly Film Bulletin, McGillivray wrote his first film script, Albert's Follies, for friend Ray Selfe in 1973. Intended as a vehicle for The Goodies, who turned it down, the film was eventually released as White Cargo and starred a young David Jason in one of his earliest leading roles.
McGillivray was soon involved in the British sex film industry, writing scripts for I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight (1975) and The Hot Girls (1974), two films produced by pornographer John Jesnor Lindsay. As would be the case with many of his films, McGillivray makes cameo appearances in both: in I’m Not Feeling Myself Tonight he is “Man at Party” who pulls Monika Ringwald’s dress off while in The Hot Girls he was given the job of doing an onscreen interview with Danish actress Helli Louise, who according to the synopsis in Cinema X magazine, talks to him about "working on a movie, and telling a few facts of life about screen nudity and enacting lesbian love scenes."
He gained attention with his scripts for the horror films of Norman J. Warren and especially Pete Walker. McGillivray wrote two scripts for Warren (Satan's Slave, Terror) and four for Walker (Frightmare, House of Whipcord, House of Mortal Sin, Schizo). McGillivray's background as a critic for Monthly Film Bulletin and Time Out did not exclude his writing efforts from the (sometimes personal sounding) criticism of ex-colleagues. A Films Illustrated review of I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight laments, "It is depressing to see David McGillivray writing scripts like this," while a Time Out review of Satan's Slave opens with: “Another absolute stinker from the withered pen of David McGillivray.”
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