Boorman, John

Entry updated 8 June 2026. Tagged: Author, Film.

(1933-    ) UK film director, famous for such movies as Point Blank (1967) and Deliverance (1972), who novelized his own Zardoz (1974) as Zardoz (1974) with Bill Stair. As a director he has also ventured into fantasy with Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) and the Arthurian Excalibur (1981). The Tailor of Panama (2001), based on John Le Carré's novel The Tailor of Panama (1996), is arguably borderline sf – "political science fiction", as Le Carré has called some of his work.

Boorman was knighted for services to film in the 2022 UK New Year honours. [JC/GS]

John Boorman

born Shepperton, Surrey: 18 January 1933

works

• Zardoz (New York: New American Library/Signet Books, 1974) with Bill Stair [tie to the film Zardoz: pb/Ron Lesser]
  • Zardoz (London: Repeater Books, 2024) with Bill Stair [exp of the above with new Boorman introduction and interview: pb/Rebecca Wright]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Internet Movie Database

previous versions of this entry

• Internet Archive