Biography
Moira Armstrong (born 1930) is a Scottish television director whose career has expanded over nearly fifty years.Born in Crieff and raised in north-east Scotland, Armstrong initially worked in BBC Radio where she trained as a continuity announcer before switching to television.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).
Filmography
all 42
Director 42
TV Shows 25
Movies 17
Lark Rise to Candleford (2008)
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
The Long Bank Holiday (2004)
The Last Detective (2003)
The Broker's Man (1997)
Breakout (1997)
Midsomer Murders (1997)
A Village Affair (1995)
Peak Practice (1993)
Body & Soul (1993)
The Countess Alice (1993)
A Safe House (1990)
The Mountain and the Molehill (1989)
The Dunroamin' Rising (1988)
Boon (1986)
Bluebell (1986)
Theatre Night (1985)
The Bill (1984)
Freud (1984)
C.Q. (1984)
Letting the Birds Go Free (1983)
To the Camp and Back (1983)
How Many Miles to Babylon? (1982)
No Visible Scar (1981)
Minor Complications (1980)
Testament of Youth (1979)
Hazell (1978)
A Christmas Carol (1977)
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden (1976)
After the Solo (1975)
The Girls of Slender Means (1975)
The Bevellers (1974)
Shoulder to Shoulder (1974)
The Shadow of the Tower (1972)
The Onedin Line (1971)
Sunset Song (1971)
Play for Today (1970)
The Borderers (1968)
Softly, Softly (1966)
The Wednesday Play (1964)
Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962)
Z-Cars (1962)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderFemale
Birthday1930-01-01 (94 years old)
Birth PlaceCrieff, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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