John Maybury (born 25 March 1958) is an English filmmaker and artist. He first came to prominence as the director of the music video for the Pet Shop Boys 1984 single "West End Girls". In 2005 he was named as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain. During the 1980s, Maybury produced a number of short films and music videos including for Sinéad O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U", which was voted #35 in a Channel 4 poll of the greatest pop music videos and received various awards, and "West End Girls" by the Pet Shop Boys, a defining 1980s video. In 1998, Maybury produced his first full-length feature Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, a biopic on the life of painter Francis Bacon starring Derek Jacobi and Daniel Craig. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, he directed The Jacket with Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley. In 2008 his film The Edge of Love, a biopic on the life of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas starring Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys and Keira Knightley premiered. He also directed the final episode of the HBO/BBC Rome series.

Filmography

• 2023Tramps!
• Marco Polo — Director
• Dates — Director
• The Borgias — Director
• 2008The Edge of Love — Director
• Rome — Director
• 2005The Jacket — Director
• 2003Jubilee: A Time Less Golden — Interviewee
• 1999Museum of Memory — Director
• 1998Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon — Director, Screenplay
• 1998Read Only Memory — Director
• 1996Genetron — Director
• 1996Maledicta Electronica — Director
• 1994Cyndi Lauper: 12 Deadly Cyns... and Then Some — Director
• 1994Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies — Director, Writer
• 1992Man to Man — Director
• 1992Premonitions Of Absurd Perversion In Sexual Personae, Part 1 — Director
• 1991Tunnel of Love — Director
• 1990Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter — Director
• 1989Absurd — Director
• 1989Sinéad O'Connor: The Value of Ignorance — Director
• 1988L'ispirazione — Editor
• 1987Big Love: An Invitation to Disaster — Director
• 1987The Last of England — Editor
• ScreenPlay — Director
• 1986The Dream Machine — Director
• 1986Tortures That Laugh — Director
• 1985Union Jack Up — Director
• 1984Glistening with Energy — Director
• 1984Pagan Idolatry — Director
• 1984Unclean — Director
• 1983Circus Logic I-IV — Director
• 1982The Court of Miracles — Director
• 1981The Technology of Souls — Director
• Glamour Is an Asset — Director

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2022Nothing Compares — Self
• 2001Salò: Fade to Black — Self
• 1991Derek Jarman: A Portrait — Self
• 1982Waiting for Waiting for Godot — Self
• 1980The Alternative Miss World — Self