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Moira Armstrong

Birthplace:
Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, UK

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Born in Crieff in 1930  and raised in north-east Scotland, Moira Armstrong is a Scottish television director whose career has expanded over nearly fifty years. Her credits include episodes of Armchair Thriller (based on the novel Quiet as a Nun), The Onedin Line, Lark Rise to Candleford, Where the Heart Is, The Bill, Midsomer Murders, Something in Disguise, The Wednesday Play, and Adam Adamant Lives!, the biographical serial Freud (1984) as well as the television film The Countess Alice (1992). She also directed Sunset Song, the 1971 adaptation for television of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel, notable not only for being the first drama to be recorded in colour by BBC Scotland but also featuring its first nude scene. Armstrong (with Jonathan Powell) won the 1980 BAFTA Best Drama Series/Serial award for Testament of Youth (1979). In 2024 and 2025 many of her TV work was repeated as part of a retrospective of vintage drama on BBC4, with Armstrong invited to introduce several of the productions alongside fellow cast and crew.

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Film Production

Director:
1974  The Bevellers
1975  After the Solo
1976  Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
1976  For the Whales
1977  A Christmas Carol
1978  Fairies
1978  One of the Boys
1978  Quiet as a Nun
1978  We Never Do What They Want
1980  Minor Complications
1981  No Visible Scar
1982  How Many Miles to Babylon?
1983  Letting the Birds Go Free
1983  To the Camp and Back
1984  C.Q.
1988  The Dunroamin' Rising
1989  The Mountain and the Molehill
1990  A Safe House
1993  The Countess Alice
1995  A Village Affair
1997  Breakout
2004  The Long Bank Holiday
2005  Three Steps to Hendon

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TV Production

Director:
1962  Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1962  Z-Cars
1964  The Wednesday Play
1965  BBC Play of the Month
1966  Softly, Softly
1968  The Borderers
1970  Play for Today
1971  Budgie
1971  Sunset Song
1971  The Onedin Line
1972  The Shadow of the Tower
1974  Playhouse
1974  Shoulder to Shoulder
1975  The Girls of Slender Means
1977  BBC2 Play of the Week
1978  Hazell
1979  Testament of Youth
1984  Freud
1984  The Bill
1985  Theatre Night
1986  Bluebell
1986  Boon
1993  Body & Soul
1993  Peak Practice
1997  Midsomer Murders
1997  The Broker's Man
2003  The Last Detective
2004  Agatha Christie's Marple
2008  Lark Rise to Candleford

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