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Moira Armstrong

Moira Armstrong

Director · Born January 1, 1930 · Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, UK

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Biography

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.

Directed 69

2000s

  1. 2008

    Lark Rise to Candleford

    Director

    83
  2. 2005

    Three Steps to Hendon

    Director

  3. 2004

    Agatha Christie's Marple

    Director

    79

  4. The Long Bank Holiday

    Director

  5. 2003

    The Last Detective

    Director

  6. 2001

    Shades

    Director

1990s

  1. 1999

    Always and Everyone

    Director

  2. 1997

    The Broker's Man

    Director

  3. Breakout

    Director

  4. Where the Heart Is

    Director

  5. Midsomer Murders

    Director

    78
  6. 1996

    No Bananas

    Director

  7. 1995

    A Village Affair

    Director

  8. 1993

    Peak Practice

    Director

    64

  9. Body & Soul

    Director

  10. The Countess Alice

    Director

  11. 1992

    Moon and Son

    Director

  12. 1990

    A Safe House

    Director

1980s

  1. 1989

    The Mountain and the Molehill

    Director

  2. Screen One

    Director

  3. The Justice Game

    Director

  4. 1988

    The Dunroamin' Rising

    Director

  5. The Play on One

    Director

  6. 1986

    ScreenPlay

    Director

  7. Boon

    Director

    62
  8. 1985

    Theatre Night

    Director

  9. 1984

    The Bill

    Director

    67

  10. Freud

    Director

  11. C.Q.

    Director

  12. 1983

    Letting the Birds Go Free

    Director

  13. To the Camp and Back

    Director

  14. 1982

    How Many Miles to Babylon?

    Director

  15. 1981

    No Visible Scar

    Director

  16. 1980

    Minor Complications

    Director

1970s

  1. 1979

    Testament of Youth

    Director

  2. The Great Detective

    Director

  3. 1978

    Fairies

    Director

  4. Quiet as a Nun

    Director

  5. Armchair Thriller

    Director

  6. Hazell

    Director

  7. 1977

    A Christmas Carol

    Director

  8. BBC2 Play of the Week

    Director

  9. 1976

    Abide with Me

    Director

  10. For the Whales

    Director

  11. Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

    Director

  12. 1975

    After the Solo

    Director

  13. The Girls of Slender Means

    Director

  14. 1974

    The Bevellers

    Director

  15. Shoulder to Shoulder

    Director

  16. Playhouse

    Director

  17. 1973

    Centre Play

    Director

  18. 1972

    The Shadow of the Tower

    Director

  19. 1971

    The Onedin Line

    Director

  20. The Guardians

    Director

  21. Budgie

    Director

  22. Sunset Song

    Director

  23. Great Performances

    Director

    74
  24. 1970

    Play for Today

    Director

    73
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