About
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...
Known for
Midsomer MurdersSeries • 1997
Great PerformancesSeries • 1971
Play for TodaySeries • 1970
The Wednesday PlaySeries • 1964
Peak PracticeSeries • 1993
The BillSeries • 1984
BBC Play of the MonthSeries • 1965
Z-CarsSeries • 1962
Agatha Christie's MarpleSeries • 2004
ITV PlayhouseSeries • 1967
PlayhouseSeries • 1974
ScreenPlaySeries • 1986
Dr. Finlay's CasebookSeries • 1962
Softly, SoftlySeries • 1966
Lark Rise to CandlefordSeries • 2008
Where the Heart IsSeries • 1997
The Onedin LineSeries • 1971
BoonSeries • 1986
The Play on OneSeries • 1988
Screen OneSeries • 1989
Centre PlaySeries • 1973
The TroubleshootersSeries • 1965
BBC2 Play of the WeekSeries • 1977
BudgieSeries • 1971