Moira Armstrong

Directing·Jan 1, 1930·Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, UK

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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.

Film	Credit
Three Steps to Hendon2005 · Director	Director
The Long Bank Holiday2004 · Director	Director
Breakout1997 · Director	Director
A Village Affair1995 · Director	Director
The Countess Alice1993 · Director	Director
A Safe House1990 · Director	Director
The Mountain and the Molehill1989 · Director	Director
The Dunroamin' Rising1988 · Director	Director
C.Q.1984 · Director	Director
Letting the Birds Go Free1983 · Director	Director
To the Camp and Back1983 · Director	Director
GGod Speed Co-operation1982 · Director	Director
How Many Miles to Babylon?1982 · Director	Director
No Visible Scar1981 · Director	Director
Minor Complications1980 · Director	Director
Fairies1978 · Director	Director
WWe Never Do What They Want1978 · Director	Director
OOne of the Boys1978 · Director	Director
Quiet as a Nun1978 · Director	Director
A Christmas Carol1977 · Director	Director
AAbide with Me1976 · Director	Director
For the Whales1976 · Director	Director
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden1976 · Director	Director
After the Solo1975 · Director	Director
The Bevellers1974 · Director	Director