John Hodge

Born in Glasgow into a family of doctors, John Hodge studied medicine at Edinburgh University between 1982 and 1987, after which he worked at various hospitals in the Scottish capital and around the country. He was always reluctant, however, to commit himself to a permanent job because of his ambition to write. In 1990 John met Andrew Macdonald who encouraged him to write the screenplay which eventually became Shallow Grave. Immediately after finishing that film… (more)