Moira Armstrong
Directing
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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tvLark Rise to Candleford
2008
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movieThree Steps to Hendon
2005
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tvAgatha Christie's Marple
2004
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movieThe Long Bank Holiday
2004
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tvThe Last Detective
2003
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tvShades
2001
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tvAlways and Everyone
1999
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tvThe Broker's Man
1997
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movieBreakout
1997
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tvWhere the Heart Is
1997
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tvMidsomer Murders
1997
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tvNo Bananas
1996
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The Vet
1995
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movieA Village Affair
1995
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tvPeak Practice
1993
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tvBody & Soul
1993
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movieThe Countess Alice
1993
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tvMoon and Son
1992
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movieA Safe House
1990
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tvScreen One
1989
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tvThe Justice Game
1989
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movieThe Dunroamin' Rising
1988
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tvThe Play on One
1988
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Inside Story
1986
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tvScreenPlay
1986
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tvBoon
1986
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Bluebell
1986
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tvTheatre Night
1985
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tvThe Bill
1984
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tvFreud
1984
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movieC.Q.
1984
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movieTo the Camp and Back
1983
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All for Love
1982
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movieNo Visible Scar
1981
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movieMinor Complications
1980
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tvTestament of Youth
1979
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tvThe Great Detective
1979
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movieFairies
1978
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movieQuiet as a Nun
1978
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tvArmchair Thriller
1978
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tvHazell
1978
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movieA Christmas Carol
1977
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tvBBC2 Play of the Week
1977
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Maidens' Trip
1977
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movieFor the Whales
1976
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movieAfter the Solo
1975
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tvThe Girls of Slender Means
1975
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movieThe Bevellers
1974
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tvShoulder to Shoulder
1974
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tvPlayhouse
1974
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Beryl's Lot
1973
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tvCentre Play
1973
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Armchair 30
1973
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The New Road
1973
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No Exit
1972
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tvThe Shadow of the Tower
1972
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tvThe Onedin Line
1971
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tvThe Guardians
1971
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tvBudgie
1971
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tvSunset Song
1971
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tvGreat Performances
1971
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tvPlay for Today
1970
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Menace
1970
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Villette
1970
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tvHadleigh
1969
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tvThe Borderers
1968
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tvITV Playhouse
1967
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tvAdam Adamant Lives!
1966
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tvSoftly, Softly
1966
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tvBBC Play of the Month
1965
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tvThe Troubleshooters
1965
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R3
1964
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tvThe Wednesday Play
1964
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tvDetective
1964
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Love Story
1963
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tvDr. Finlay's Casebook
1962
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tvZ-Cars
1962
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tvRemembers…
2022
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