Moira Armstrong
Directing · Born Jan 1, 1930 · Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
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
Directed
Lark Rise to Candleford
20088.4
Three Steps to Hendon
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
20047.8
The Long Bank Holiday
20048.0
The Last Detective
20037.8
Shades
20016.5
Always and Everyone
19999.5
The Broker's Man
19976.8
Breakout
19976.7
Where the Heart Is
19977.7
Midsomer Murders
19977.5
No Bananas
19967.7
A Village Affair
19955.0
Peak Practice
19936.5
Body & Soul
19935.8
The Countess Alice
199310.0
Moon and Son
1992
A Safe House
1990
The Mountain and the Molehill
1989
Screen One
19897.2
The Justice Game
198910.0
The Dunroamin' Rising
1988
The Play on One
19886.0
ScreenPlay
19866.0
Boon
19865.8
Theatre Night
1985
The Bill
19846.8
Freud
19845.0
C.Q.
1984
Letting the Birds Go Free
1983
To the Camp and Back
1983
How Many Miles to Babylon?
1982
No Visible Scar
1981
Minor Complications
1980
Testament of Youth
19797.8
The Great Detective
19798.0
Fairies
197810.0
Quiet as a Nun
19788.0
Armchair Thriller
19784.7
Hazell
19785.2
A Christmas Carol
19776.7
BBC2 Play of the Week
19777.0
For the Whales
19768.0
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
19767.0
After the Solo
1975
The Girls of Slender Means
19753.7
The Bevellers
1974
Shoulder to Shoulder
19746.5
Playhouse
19747.0
Centre Play
19737.0
The Shadow of the Tower
19725.7
The Onedin Line
19717.0
The Guardians
19716.0
Budgie
19717.2
Sunset Song
19719.0
Great Performances
19716.1
Play for Today
19706.6
Hadleigh
19697.8
The Borderers
19687.0
ITV Playhouse
19677.0
Adam Adamant Lives!
19667.5
Softly, Softly
19667.5
BBC Play of the Month
19655.2
The Troubleshooters
19657.3
The Wednesday Play
19645.2
Detective
19649.0
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
19626.7
Z-Cars
19627.3