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Moira Armstrong
Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
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…
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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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2022
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TV show Self
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2008
Lark Rise to Candleford
TV show Director
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2005
Three Steps to Hendon
Movie Director
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2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV show Director
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2004
The Long Bank Holiday
Movie Director
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2003
The Last Detective
TV show Director
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2001
Shades
TV show Director
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1999
Always and Everyone
TV show Director
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1998
Mortimer's Law
TV show Director
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1997
The Broker's Man
TV show Director
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1997
Breakout
Movie Director
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1997
Where the Heart Is
TV show Director
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1997
Midsomer Murders
TV show Director
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1996
No Bananas
TV show Director
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1995
The Vet
TV show Director
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1995
A Village Affair
Movie Director
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1993
Peak Practice
TV show Director
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1993
Body & Soul
TV show Director
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1993
The Countess Alice
Movie Director
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1992
Moon and Son
TV show Director
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1990
A Safe House
Movie Director
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1989
The Mountain and the Molehill
Movie Director
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1989
Screen One
TV show Director
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1989
The Justice Game
TV show Director
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1988
The Dunroamin' Rising
Movie Director
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1988
The Play on One
TV show Director
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1986
Inside Story
TV show Director
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1986
ScreenPlay
TV show Director
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1986
Boon
TV show Director
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1986
Bluebell
TV show Director
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1985
Theatre Night
TV show Director
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1984
The Bill
TV show Director
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1984
Freud
TV show Director
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1984
C.Q.
Movie Director
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1983
Letting the Birds Go Free
Movie Director
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1983
To the Camp and Back
Movie Director
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1982
God Speed Co-operation
Movie Director
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1982
All for Love
TV show Director
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1982
Something in Disguise
TV show Director
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1982
How Many Miles to Babylon?
Movie Director
