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Gavin Millar
Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
Gavin Millar (11 January 1938 – 20 April 2022) was a Scottish film director, critic and television presenter. Millar was born in Clydebank, near Glasgow, the son of Tom Millar and…
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Gavin Millar (11 January 1938 – 20 April 2022) was a Scottish film director, critic and television presenter. Millar was born in Clydebank, near Glasgow, the son of Tom Millar and his wife Rita (née Osborne). The family relocated to the Midlands when he was nine and he was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. He undertook national service in the Royal Air Force and then read English at Christ Church, Oxford from 1958 to 1961. Millar took a postgraduate film course at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Millar was a film critic for The Listener from 1970 to 1984. He also contributed to Sight and Sound and the London Review of Books. He wrote a new section to Karel Reisz's book The Technique of Film Editing for the 1968 edition. On television, he wrote, produced and presented Arena Cinema for the BBC from 1976 to 1980, and wrote and presented numerous other cinema and visual arts documentaries. In 1980, he directed Dennis Potter's Cream in My Coffee for London Weekend Television, which received a BAFTA nomination. His first feature film as director was 1985's Dreamchild. He would later collaborate with Dreamchild's producer Rick McCallum again on the episode Peking, March 1910, part of George Lucas's television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in 1993. It was later re-edited to be part of Journey of Radiance when the series became The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on its DVD release. His 1994 television film Pat and Margaret, featuring Victoria Wood, received a further BAFTA nomination, and Housewife, 49 (2006), a later collaboration with Wood, won the 2007 award. Millar died of a brain tumour on 20 April 2022, aged 84. He was survived by his five children and by six grandchildren.
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2009
Albert Schweitzer
Movie Director
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2006
Housewife, 49
Movie Director
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2006
Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup
Movie Director
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2004
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
Movie Voiceover Interviewer (Archive Footage)
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2004
King of Fridges
Movie Director
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2004
Benefit to Mankind
Movie Director
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2004
New Tricks
TV show Theatre Director
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2003
The Last Detective
TV show Director
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2002
Foyle's War
TV show Director
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2002
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Movie Director
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2000
My Fragile Heart
Movie Director
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2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance
Movie Director
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2000
Complicity
Movie Director
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1999
The Vice
TV show Director
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1998
Talking Heads 2
Movie Director
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1997
Sex & Chocolate
Movie Director
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1996
The Crow Road
TV show Director
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1995
Funny Bones
Movie Steve Campbell
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1995
Belle Époque
TV show Director
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1994
Pat and Margaret
Movie Director
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1994
The Dwelling Place
TV show Director
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1992
Look At It This Way
TV show Director
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1992
My Friend Walter
Movie Director
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1992
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
TV show Director
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1991
A Murder of Quality
Movie Director
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1990
Creative Process: Norman McLaren
Movie Self - Interviewer (archive footage)
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1989
Screen One
TV show Director
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1989
Danny the Champion of the World
Movie Director
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1988
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
Movie Director
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1988
Tidy Endings
Movie Director
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1988
Talking Heads
TV show Director
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1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
TV show Director
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1987
Scoop
Movie Director
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1986
Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
Movie Narrator
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1986
The Russian Soldier
Movie Director
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1985
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Movie Director
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1985
Dreamchild
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1985
Unfair Exchanges
Movie Director
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1985
Screen Two
TV show Director
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1983
The Weather in the Streets
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