John Hodge is a Britishscreenwriter, most noted for his adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting into the script for the film of the same title.
Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, Hodge comes from a family of doctors and carried on the tradition by studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Still a licensed, practicing doctor, Hodge started writing screenplays after meeting producer Andrew Macdonald at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1991. He moved to London and gave up working for a short period of time to concentrate on writing.
Shallow Grave,Trainspotting, and A Life Less Ordinary all starred Ewan McGregor. Hodge is known for being heavily influenced by American film in that he is more interested in plot than character development. In 1995 he received a BAFTA Award, and in 1996 was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Trainspotting.
External links
Internet Movie Database entry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0388076/)
Website about his work on The Beach screenplay (http://www.thaistudents.com/thebeach/john.html)
JohnHodge took the spot when Kraft decided to devote more time to the Apollo program, which was beginning its operational phase.
Hodge, then 37, stood out amongst the first group of flight directors with his English accent, his already graying hair, and the pipe and tweed jackets he preferred.
Hodge's blue team of flight controllers had been on duty for nearly nine hours of flight at that point, so he handed over control for the re-entry to Gene Kranz's white team, which was originally due to handle the scheduled re-entry.
Hodge worked in Coatbridge and Motherwell and it was not until he was nearly thirty that he became involved in trade union activities.
Hodge was a useful acquisition as he was now arguing that any industrial action in wartime was equal to treason.
Hodge upset many trade unionists by refusing to support the 1926 General Strike and after coming under considerable pressure from union members, finally resigned in 1931.
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