Moira Armstrong

Moira Armstrong

Directing
Born 1930-01-01 Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, UK 91 credits
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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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Directing 59 credits
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders
1997 · ★ 7.5 · Director
Play for Today
Play for Today
1970 · Director
Great Performances
Great Performances
1971 · Director
Agatha Christie's Marple
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · ★ 7.8 · Director
Peak Practice
Peak Practice
1993 · Director
The Wednesday Play
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Director
BBC Play of the Month
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Director
Playhouse
Playhouse
1974 · Director
ITV Playhouse
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Director
The Bill
The Bill
1984 · Director
Z-Cars
Z-Cars
1962 · Director
ScreenPlay
ScreenPlay
1986 · Director
Lark Rise to Candleford
Lark Rise to Candleford
2008 · Director
Where the Heart Is
Where the Heart Is
1997 · Director
Boon
Boon
1986 · Director
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1962 · Director
BBC2 Play of the Week
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · Director
The Play on One
The Play on One
1988 · Director
The Onedin Line
The Onedin Line
1971 · Director
Screen One
Screen One
1989 · Director
The Troubleshooters
The Troubleshooters
1965 · Director
Softly, Softly
Softly, Softly
1966 · Director
Centre Play
Centre Play
1973 · Director
Detective
Detective
1964 · Director
Budgie
Budgie
1971 · Director
W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
1969 · Director
The Last Detective
The Last Detective
2003 · Director
Always and Everyone
Always and Everyone
1999 · Director
R3
R3
1964 · Director
Adam Adamant Lives!
Adam Adamant Lives!
1966 · Director
Hadleigh
Hadleigh
1969 · Director
Hazell
Hazell
1978 · Director
Inside Story
Inside Story
1986 · Director
Menace
Menace
1970 · Director
The Borderers
The Borderers
1968 · Director
Theatre Night
Theatre Night
1985 · Director
Freud
Freud
1984 · Director
Love Story
Love Story
1963 · Director
The Broker's Man
The Broker's Man
1997 · Director
Body & Soul
Body & Soul
1993 · Director
Armchair 30
Armchair 30
1973 · Director
All for Love
All for Love
1982 · Director
The Guardians
The Guardians
1971 · Director
Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth
1979 · Director
Dial M for Murder
Dial M for Murder
1974 · Director
Armchair Thriller
Armchair Thriller
1978 · Director
Moon and Son
Moon and Son
1992 · Director
The Vet
The Vet
1995 · Director
The Great Detective
The Great Detective
1979 · Director
The Shadow of the Tower
The Shadow of the Tower
1972 · Director
No Exit
No Exit
1972 · Director
Sunset Song
Sunset Song
1971 · Director
Shoulder to Shoulder
Shoulder to Shoulder
1974 · Director
This Man Craig
This Man Craig
1966 · Director
Villette
Villette
1970 · Director
No Bananas
No Bananas
1996 · Director
The Justice Game
The Justice Game
1989 · Director
The Girls of Slender Means
The Girls of Slender Means
1975 · Director
Shades
Shades
2001 · Director
Acting 1 credit
Remembers…
Remembers…
2022 · Self
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