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John Michael McDonagh (born 1967) is a British-Irish filmmaker. He wrote and directed The Guard (2011) and Calvary (2014), with the former earning him a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay.
The Guard is a 2011 buddy cop comedy film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, starring Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong and Liam Cunningham. [ 4 ][ 5 ] The film received critical acclaim and was a box office success.
John Michael McDonagh was born in 1967 in London, England, UK. He is a writer and director, known for The Guard (2011), Calvary (2014) and The Forgiven (2021). He has been married to Elizabeth Eves since 2003.
McDonagh was born in London in 1967. He was raised in England with his younger brother, playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh, although they spent their summers in his mother's Irish hometown of Easky, County Sligo, which was the setting for Calvary. Like his brother, McDonagh dropped out of secondary school, and ended up unemployed.
The Guard: Directed by John Michael McDonagh. With Ronan Collins, Paraic Nialand, John Patrick Beirne, Liam O'Conghaile. An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is partnered with an uptight F.B.I. agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.
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- Comedy, Crime, Thriller
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Jan 25, 2023 · John Michael McDonagh began his directing career with 2011’s The Guard, a darkly comedic mismatched buddy cop film starring frequent McDonagh brother’s collaborator Brendan Gleeson. The film ponders mortality, questioning the difference in morality between law enforcement and criminals and upending notions of the binary moral and amoral.
Jul 10, 2016 · Three movies into his filmmaking career and John Michael McDonagh's work remains as brilliantly offbeat as ever.
