Moira Armstrong
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1930 (age 96)
- Birthplace
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
Lark Rise to Candleford
TV · Director · 3 eps
Three Steps to Hendon
Movie · Director
The Long Bank Holiday
Movie · Director
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Last Detective
TV · Director · 2 eps
Shades
TV · Director · 6 eps
Always and Everyone
TV · Director · 2 eps
Mortimer's Law
TV · Director · 3 eps
Breakout
Movie · Director
Midsomer Murders
TV · Director · 2 eps
The Broker's Man
TV · Director · 2 eps
Where the Heart Is
TV · Director · 14 eps
No Bananas
TV · Director · 2 eps
A Village Affair
Movie · Director
The Vet
TV · Director · 3 eps
The Countess Alice
Movie · Director
Body & Soul
TV · Director · 6 eps
Peak Practice
TV · Director · 3 eps
Moon and Son
TV · Director · 2 eps
A Safe House
Movie · Director
The Mountain and the Molehill
Movie · Director
Screen One
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Justice Game
TV · Director · 3 eps
The Dunroamin' Rising
Movie · Director
The Play on One
TV · Director · 1 ep
Boon
TV · Director · 1 ep
Bluebell
TV · Director · 8 eps
ScreenPlay
TV · Director · 2 eps
Inside Story
TV · Director · 6 eps
Theatre Night
TV · Director · 1 ep
C.Q.
Movie · Director
The Bill
TV · Director · 15 eps
Freud
TV · Director · 6 eps
To the Camp and Back
Movie · Director
Letting the Birds Go Free
Movie · Director
How Many Miles to Babylon?
Movie · Director
God Speed Co-operation
Movie · Director
Something in Disguise
TV · Director · 6 eps
All for Love
TV · Director · 2 eps
No Visible Scar
Movie · Director
Minor Complications
Movie · Director
Testament of Youth
TV · Director · 5 eps
The Great Detective
TV · Director · 1 ep
One of the Boys
Movie · Director
We Never Do What They Want
Movie · Director
Fairies
Movie · Director
Quiet as a Nun
Movie · Director
Hazell
TV · Director · 2 eps
Armchair Thriller
TV · Director · 6 eps
A Christmas Carol
Movie · Director
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV · Director · 1 ep
Maidens' Trip
TV · Director · 3 eps
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
Movie · Director
For the Whales
Movie · Director
Abide with Me
Movie · Director
After the Solo
Movie · Director
The Girls of Slender Means
TV · Director · 3 eps
The Bevellers
Movie · Director
Shoulder to Shoulder
TV · Director · 2 eps
Playhouse
TV · Director · 1 ep
Dial M for Murder
TV · Director · 1 ep
Centre Play
TV · Director · 1 ep
The New Road
TV · Director · 5 eps
Armchair 30
TV · Director · 1 ep
Beryl's Lot
TV · Director · 3 eps
The Shadow of the Tower
TV · Director · 3 eps
No Exit
TV · Director · 1 ep
Sunset Song
TV · Director · 6 eps
The Onedin Line
TV · Director · 1 ep
Budgie
TV · Director · 2 eps
The Guardians
TV · Director · 1 ep
Great Performances
TV · Director · 1 ep
Play for Today
TV · Director · 5 eps
Villette
TV · Director · 5 eps
Menace
TV · Director · 2 eps
W. Somerset Maugham
TV · Director · 2 eps
Hadleigh
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Borderers
TV · Director · 4 eps
ITV Playhouse
TV · Director · 2 eps
Softly, Softly
TV · Director · 1 ep
This Man Craig
TV · Director · 3 eps
Adam Adamant Lives!
TV · Director · 8 eps
BBC Play of the Month
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Troubleshooters
TV · Director · 11 eps
The Wednesday Play
TV · Director · 3 eps
R3
TV · Director · 3 eps
Detective
TV · Director · 3 eps
Love Story
TV · Director · 1 ep
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
TV · Director · 6 eps
Z-Cars
TV · Director · 1 ep