Moira Armstrong
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.
Fotos
Filmes (25)
Three Steps to Hendon
2005 · Director
The Long Bank Holiday
2004 · Director
Breakout
1997 · Director
A Village Affair
1995 · Director
The Countess Alice
1993 · Director
A Safe House
1990 · Director
The Mountain and the Molehill
1989 · Director
The Dunroamin' Rising
1988 · Director
C.Q.
1984 · Director
Letting the Birds Go Free
1983 · Director
To the Camp and Back
1983 · Director
God Speed Co-operation
1982 · Director
How Many Miles to Babylon?
1982 · Director
No Visible Scar
1981 · Director
Minor Complications
1980 · Director
Fairies
1978 · Director
We Never Do What They Want
1978 · Director
One of the Boys
1978 · Director
Quiet as a Nun
1978 · Director
A Christmas Carol
1977 · Director
Abide with Me
1976 · Director
For the Whales
1976 · Director
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
1976 · Director
After the Solo
1975 · Director
The Bevellers
1974 · Director
Séries (66)
Remembers…
2022 · Self
De Lark Rise a Candleford
2008 · Director
Marple de Agatha Christie's
2004 · Director
The Last Detective
2003 · Director
Shades
2001 · Director
Always and Everyone
1999 · Director
Mortimer's Law
1998 · Director
The Broker's Man
1997 · Director
Where the Heart Is
1997 · Director
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Director
No Bananas
1996 · Director
The Vet
1995 · Director
Peak Practice
1993 · Director
Body & Soul
1993 · Director
Moon and Son
1992 · Director
Screen One
1989 · Director
The Justice Game
1989 · Director
The Play on One
1988 · Director
Inside Story
1986 · Director
ScreenPlay
1986 · Director
Boon
1986 · Director
Bluebell
1986 · Director
Theatre Night
1985 · Director
The Bill
1984 · Director
Freud
1984 · Director
All for Love
1982 · Director
Something in Disguise
1982 · Director, Producer
Testament of Youth
1979 · Director
The Great Detective
1979 · Director
Armchair Thriller
1978 · Director
Hazell
1978 · Director
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · Director
Maidens' Trip
1977 · Director
The Girls of Slender Means
1975 · Director
Dial M for Murder
1974 · Director
Shoulder to Shoulder
1974 · Director
Playhouse
1974 · Director
Beryl's Lot
1973 · Director
Centre Play
1973 · Director
Armchair 30
1973 · Director
The New Road
1973 · Director
No Exit
1972 · Director
The Shadow of the Tower
1972 · Director
The Onedin Line
1971 · Director
The Guardians
1971 · Director
Budgie
1971 · Director
Sunset Song
1971 · Director
Great Performances
1971 · Director
Play for Today
1970 · Director
Menace
1970 · Director
Villette
1970 · Director
Hadleigh
1969 · Director
W. Somerset Maugham
1969 · Director
The Borderers
1968 · Director
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Director
Adam Adamant Lives!
1966 · Director
Softly, Softly
1966 · Director
This Man Craig
1966 · Director
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Director
The Troubleshooters
1965 · Director
R3
1964 · Director
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Director
Detective
1964 · Director
Love Story
1963 · Director
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1962 · Director
Z-Cars
1962 · Director