Boorman, John (1933– )

English film director, screenwriter, and producer. He started out in television, and has directed a number of visually stylish films in both Hollywood and the UK. They include Deliverance (1972), Excalibur (1981), The Emerald Forest (1985), Hope and Glory (1987), and Beyond Rangoon (1995). He was made a CBE in 1994.

Boorman's narratives frequently betray his interest in mythology and the work of the Swiss psychologist C G Jung, an interest shared by his early collaborator Lee Marvin, who starred in his Point Blank (1967) and Hell in the Pacific (1968).

Among Boorman's recent works are The General (1998), the television documentary Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait (1998), The Tailor of Panama (2001), and Country of My Skull (2003).