About

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Place of birth:
Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
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Moira Armstrong

Overview

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.

Known for

Directing

2007 Ordeal by Innocence Directing Director N/A
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2004 The Long Bank Holiday Directing Director 59
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1997 The Broker's Man Directing Director 69
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1997 Breakout Directing Director 58
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1995 A Village Affair Directing Director 58
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1993 Body & Soul Directing Director 68
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1993 The Countess Alice Directing Director N/A
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1990 A Safe House Directing Director N/A
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1989 The Mountain and the Molehill Directing Director N/A
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1988 The Dunroamin' Rising Directing Director N/A
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1984 Freud Directing Director 68
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1984 C.Q. Directing Director N/A
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1983 Letting the Birds Go Free Directing Director N/A
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1983 To the Camp and Back Directing Director N/A
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1982 How Many Miles to Babylon? Directing Director N/A
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1981 No Visible Scar Directing Director N/A
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1980 Minor Complications Directing Director N/A
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1978 Fairies Directing Director N/A
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1978 We Never Do What They Want Directing Director N/A
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1978 One of the Boys Directing Director N/A
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1977 A Christmas Carol Directing Director 59
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1976 For the Whales Directing Director N/A
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1976 Clay, Smeddum and Greenden Directing Director 58
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1975 After the Solo Directing Director N/A
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1974 The Bevellers Directing Director N/A
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1971 Sunset Song Directing Director N/A
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