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.
Filmography
all 46
Director 46
TV Shows 25
Movies 21

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)

Boon (1986)

Bluebell (1986)

Theatre Night (1985)

The Bill (1984)

Freud (1984)

C.Q. (1984)

To the Camp and Back (1983)

No Visible Scar (1981)

Minor Complications (1980)

Testament of Youth (1979)

Fairies (1978)

One of the Boys (1978)

Hazell (1978)

A Christmas Carol (1977)

For the Whales (1976)

After the Solo (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 (95 years old)
Birth PlaceCrieff, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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