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".
[1] 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[2] 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.
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.