He also edited and shot the special effects for Terry Gilliam's films Brazil and Time Bandits.
Doyle has directed the films Love Potion (1987), about a drug rehabilitation centre, and Chemical Wedding (2008), an occult thriller starring Simon Callow which he wrote with Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson.
[1] He has also written Twilight of the Gods, a play about the relationship between Wagner and Nietzsche which was performed at the Edinburgh Festival.
He has also directed music videos, including those for Kate Bush's "Cloudbusting"[3] and Iron Maiden's hit "Can I Play with Madness".
Doyle also appeared in the Monty Python film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, playing the police sergeant who abruptly ends the film by breaking the camera.