Moira Armstrong
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1930
- Place of birth
- Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
Biography
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.
Movies directed by Moira Armstrong
- A Christmas Carol 1977 · ★ 6.7
- A Village Affair 1995 · ★ 5.0
- Breakout 1997 · ★ 6.7
- Clay, Smeddum and Greenden 1976 · ★ 7.0
- The Countess Alice 1993 · ★ 10.0
- The Long Bank Holiday 2004 · ★ 8.0
- Fairies 1978 · ★ 10.0
- For the Whales 1976 · ★ 8.0
- Quiet as a Nun 1978 · ★ 8.0
- The Dunroamin' Rising 1988
- C.Q. 1984
- The Mountain and the Molehill 1989
- How Many Miles to Babylon? 1982
- To the Camp and Back 1983
- One of the Boys 1978
- We Never Do What They Want 1978
- Letting the Birds Go Free 1983
- A Safe House 1990
- After the Solo 1975
- The Bevellers 1974
- Minor Complications 1980
- No Visible Scar 1981
- Three Steps to Hendon 2005
- Abide with Me 1976
- God Speed Co-operation 1982