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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.
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- info Birth Place Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
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A Christmas Carol
1977-12-24
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A Village Affair
1995-04-17
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The Dunroamin' Rising
1988-02-19
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The Countess Alice
1993-01-24
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C.Q.
1984-01-01
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The Mountain and the Molehill
1989-10-15
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How Many Miles to Babylon?
1982-02-26
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The Long Bank Holiday
2004-02-20
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To the Camp and Back
1983-02-02
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One of the Boys
1978-05-02
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We Never Do What They Want
1978-05-16
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Letting the Birds Go Free
1983-09-25
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A Safe House
1990-08-22
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Breakout
1997-04-22
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Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
1976-02-24
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After the Solo
1975-11-25
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The Bevellers
1974-11-21
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Minor Complications
1980-11-18
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No Visible Scar
1981-11-17
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Fairies
1978-09-27
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For the Whales
1976-06-20
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Quiet as a Nun
1978-04-11
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Softly, Softly
1966-01-05
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Lark Rise to Candleford
2008-01-13
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Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1962-08-16
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Hazell
1978-01-16
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Midsomer Murders
1997-03-23
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The Bill
1984-10-16
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The Wednesday Play
1964-09-30
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Z-Cars
1962-01-02
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Boon
1986-01-14
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Play for Today
1970-10-15
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The Borderers
1968-12-31
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The Shadow of the Tower
1972-01-06
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Bluebell
1986-01-12
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Testament of Youth
1979-11-04
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The Last Detective
2003-02-07
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The Broker's Man
1997-06-17
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Body & Soul
1993-04-08
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Freud
1984-09-14
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Theatre Night
1985-09-15
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Peak Practice
1993-05-10
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Agatha Christie's Marple
2004-12-12
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Sunset Song
1971-03-26
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The Onedin Line
1971-10-15
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The Girls of Slender Means
1975-05-03
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Shoulder to Shoulder
1974-04-03