Gavin Millar
Directing
Born 1938-01-11
Died 2022-04-20
Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
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Gavin Millar (11 January 1938 – 20 April 2022) was a Scottish film director, critic and television presenter. Millar was born in Clydebank, near Glasgow, the son of Tom Millar and his wife Rita (née Osborne). The family relocated to the Midlands when he was nine and he was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. He undertook national service in the Royal Air Force and then read English at Christ Church, Oxford from 1958 to 1961. Millar took a postgraduate film course at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.
Millar was a film critic for The Listener from 1970 to 1984. He also contributed to Sight and Sound and the London Review of Books. He wrote a new section to Karel Reisz's book The Technique of Film Editing for the 1968 edition. On television, he wrote, produced and presented Arena Cinema for the BBC from 1976 to 1980, and wrote and presented numerous other cinema and visual arts documentaries.
In 1980, he directed Dennis Potter's Cream in My Coffee for London Weekend Television, which received a BAFTA nomination. His first feature film as director was 1985's Dreamchild. He would later collaborate with Dreamchild's producer Rick McCallum again on the episode Peking, March 1910, part of George Lucas's television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in 1993. It was later re-edited to be part of Journey of Radiance when the series became The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on its DVD release. His 1994 television film Pat and Margaret, featuring Victoria Wood, received a further BAFTA nomination, and Housewife, 49 (2006), a later collaboration with Wood, won the 2007 award.
Millar died of a brain tumour on 20 April 2022, aged 84. He was survived by his five children and by six grandchildren.
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Filmography
Directing
46 credits
Play for Today
Foyle's War
Arena
Screen Two
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Screen One
The Vice
The Last Detective
Dreamchild
Review
Full House
Wessex Tales
Danny the Champion of the World
The Crow Road
The Dwelling Place
Talking Heads
Scoop
Belle Époque
A Murder of Quality
Housewife, 49
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance
Goodbye
Albert Schweitzer
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Cream in My Coffee
Pat and Margaret
My Friend Walter
Complicity
King of Fridges
The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees
Intensive Care
Look At It This Way
Unfair Exchanges
Talking Heads 2
The Weather in the Streets
Tidy Endings
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup
My Fragile Heart
The Russian Soldier
Secrets
Benefit to Mankind
Sex & Chocolate
A Pretty British Affair
Acting
10 credits
New Tricks
Omnibus
Funny Bones
The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees
Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
Talking Pictures: Quadrophenia
Monsieur Hulot's Work
Creative Process: Norman McLaren
Virginia Woolf: A Night's Darkness, A Day's Sail
Producing
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