John Boorman

ActorWriterDirectorProducer 1963–2025 (62 year career)

6.0 avg rating

Highest Rated

The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'

1999 · as Self

7.7

Deliverance

1972 · Director

7.3

Deliverance

1972 · Producer

7.3

Known For

Film

Deliverance

Director

Film

The Professor and the Madman

Writer

Film

Excalibur

Director

Film

Point Blank

Director

Film

The Tailor of Panama

Director

Film

Hope and Glory

Narrator (voice)

Film

Zardoz

Farming Brutal Shot by Zed (uncredited)

Film

The Emerald Forest

Director

Filmography

Acting (33)

Movies (29)

Boorman and the Devil

2025

as Self

A Look Through His Lens

2024

as Self

The Sean Connery Paradox

2022

as Self

7.3

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

2019

as Self

6.7

John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma

2017

as Self - Guest

Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond

2016

as Self

6.9

Postwar Poetry: Carol Reed and 'Odd Man Out'

2015

as Self

Excalibur: Behind the Movie

2013

as Self

Me and Me Dad

2012

as Self

Dreamers

2012

as Self

6.0

Sodankylä Forever

2010

as Self

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

as Self

Filmmakers in Action

as Self

What If?

A Sense of Carol Reed

2006

as Self

The Making of Ryan's Daughter

2006

as Self

The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'

1999

as Self

7.7

Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman

1998

as Self

Ennio Morricone

as Self

I Dreamt I Woke Up

as Self

The Return of the Green Man

1990

as Self

Hope and Glory

1987

as Narrator (voice)

6.9

Just a Song and Dance

1987

The Making of Excalibur: Myth into Movie

1981

as Self

Long Shot

1978

as The Director

Zardoz

1974

as Farming Brutal Shot by Zed (uncredited)

5.9

The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'

1972

as Self

The Rock

1967

as Self (uncredited)

7.1

In View: Six Days to Saturday

1963

as Narrator

Television (4)

Sodankylä Forever

as Self

Leçon de Cinéma

as Self

Spécial cinéma

as Self

Film '72

1971

as Self

4.7

Crew (58)

Movies (56)

The Professor and the Madman

Writer

Queen & Country

Director

Queen & Country

Producer

Queen & Country

Writer

The Tiger's Tail

Director

The Tiger's Tail

Producer

The Tiger's Tail

Writer

In My Country

Director

In My Country

Producer

The Tailor of Panama

Director

The Tailor of Panama

Producer

The Tailor of Panama

Screenplay

Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman

1998

Director

Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman

1998

Writer

The General

Director

The General

Producer

The General

Writer

Angela Mooney Dies Again

Executive Producer

Lumière & Company

Director

Beyond Rangoon

Director

Beyond Rangoon

Producer

Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing

1995

Director

2.0

Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing

1995

Producer

2.0

Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing

Writer

I Dreamt I Woke Up

Director

I Dreamt I Woke Up

Writer

Where the Heart Is

Director

Where the Heart Is

Producer

Where the Heart Is

Writer

Hope and Glory

Director

Hope and Glory

Writer

The Emerald Forest

Director

The Emerald Forest

Producer

Dream One

Producer

Angel

Executive Producer

Excalibur

Director

Excalibur

Producer

Excalibur

Screenplay

The Hard Way

Executive Producer

Exorcist II: The Heretic

1977

Director

4.5

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Producer

Zardoz

Director

Zardoz

Producer

Zardoz

Writer

Deliverance

Director

Deliverance

Producer

Leo the Last

Director

Leo the Last

Writer

Hell in the Pacific

Director

Point Blank

Director

Catch Us If You Can

Director

In View: Six Days to Saturday

1963

Director

In View: Six Days to Saturday

1963

Producer

In View: Six Days to Saturday

1963

Writer

The Honey Wars

Original Story

The Honey Wars

Producer

Television (2)

Picture Windows

1995

Director

Picture Windows

1995

Writer