Director
Moira Armstrong
Born January 1, 1930 in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, UK25 films
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).
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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.
Filmography
25 films as director- 2005Three Steps to HendonDirector
- 2004The Long Bank HolidayDirector
- 1997BreakoutDirector
- 1995A Village AffairDirector
- 1993The Countess AliceDirector
- 1990A Safe HouseDirector
- 1989The Mountain and the MolehillDirector
- 1988The Dunroamin' RisingDirector
- 1984C.Q.Director
- 1983Letting the Birds Go FreeDirector
- 1983To the Camp and BackDirector
- 1982God Speed Co-operationDirector
- 1982How Many Miles to Babylon?Director
- 1981No Visible ScarDirector
- 1980Minor ComplicationsDirector
- 1978FairiesDirector
- 1978We Never Do What They WantDirector
- 1978One of the BoysDirector
- 1978Quiet as a NunDirector
- 1977A Christmas CarolDirector
- 1976Abide with MeDirector
- 1976For the WhalesDirector
- 1976Clay, Smeddum and GreendenDirector
- 1975After the SoloDirector
- 1974The BevellersDirector