Born: 11th August 1932 (as John Sumner Gorrie)
Episodes Broadcast: 1964

John Gorrie was born in Hastings, East Sussex and initially worked as an actor. He made his stage debut in the late Fifties, soon earning a prominent role in a West End production of Inherit The Wind. He appeared on television in 1958 in an episode of BBC Sunday-Night Theatre and the biography Tom Barnardo. Gorrie then shifted gears, joining the BBC as an assistant stage manager and completing its directors' training program in early 1963. His initial work included Suspense and Compact. Gorrie directed The Keys Of Marinus for the first season of Doctor Who, although he felt out of place working on a science-fiction serial. A few months later, it appears that he was also pressed into service as an emergency replacement on the third episode of The Reign Of Terror; however, Gorrie himself has no recollection of the event. Soon after, he left the BBC to become a freelancer.

Gorrie largely concentrated on plays for the remainder of the Sixties, while also returning to science-fiction with episodes of Out Of The Unknown. In the Seventies, he both wrote and directed Edward The Seventh and Lillie, while also directing installments of shows like Angels and Within These Walls. The Eighties began with two contributions to the BBC Television Shakespeare Project: Twelfth Night and The Tempest. Across the remainder of the decade, Gorrie's credits included Morgan's Boy, A Sort Of Innocence and several episodes of Tales Of The Unexpected. The Nineties saw Gorrie directing everything from Rumpole Of The Bailey to Coronation Street to Peak Practice. His final credit came in 2000, on The Coral Island.