- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- January 11, 1938
- Place of Birth
- Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
- Died
- April 20, 2022
Gavin Millar
Gavin Millar (11 January 1938 – 20 April 2022) was a Scottish film director, critic and television presenter. Millar was born in Clydebank, near Glasgow, the son of Tom Millar and his wife Rita (née Osborne). The family relocated to the Midlands when he was nine and he was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. He undertook national service in the Royal Air Force and then read English at Christ Church, Oxford from 1958 to 1961. Millar took a postgraduate film course at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Millar was a film critic for The Listener from 1970 to 1984. He also contributed to Sight and Sound and the London Review of Books. He wrote a new section to Karel Reisz's book The Technique of Film Editing for the 1968 edition. On television, he wrote, produced and presented Arena Cinema for the BBC from 1976 to 1980, and wrote and presented numerous other cinema and visual …
Filmography
movieAlbert Schweitzer
2009 · Director
movieHousewife, 49
2006 · Director
moviePickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup
2006 · Director
movieThe Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
2004 · Voiceover Interviewer (Archive Footage)
movieKing of Fridges
2004 · Director
movieBenefit to Mankind
2004 · Director
tvNew Tricks
2004 · Theatre Director
tvThe Last Detective
2003 · Director
tvFoyle's War
2002 · Director
movieConfessions of an Ugly Stepsister
2002 · Director
movieMy Fragile Heart
2000 · Director
movieThe Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance
2000 · Director
movieComplicity
2000 · Director
tvThe Vice
1999 · Director
movieTalking Heads 2
1998 · Director
movieSex & Chocolate
1997 · Director
tvThe Crow Road
1996 · Director
movieFunny Bones
1995 · Steve Campbell
Belle Époque
tvBelle Époque
1995 · Director
moviePat and Margaret
1994 · Director
tvThe Dwelling Place
1994 · Director
Look At It This Way
tvLook At It This Way
1992 · Director
movieMy Friend Walter
1992 · Director
tvThe Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992 · Director
movieA Murder of Quality
1991 · Director
Creative Process: Norman McLaren
movieCreative Process: Norman McLaren
1990 · Self - Interviewer (archive footage)
tvScreen One
1989 · Director
movieDanny the Champion of the World
1989 · Director
movieThe Most Dangerous Man in the World
1988 · Director
movieTidy Endings
1988 · Director
tvTalking Heads
1988 · Director
tvThe Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987 · Director
movieScoop
1987 · Director
movieMade In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
1986 · Narrator
movieThe Russian Soldier
1986 · Director
movieMr. and Mrs. Edgehill
1985 · Director
movieDreamchild
1985 · Director
movieUnfair Exchanges
1985 · Director
tvScreen Two
1985 · Director
movieThe Weather in the Streets
1983 · Director
movieSecrets
1983 · Director
movieIntensive Care
1982 · Director
movieA Pretty British Affair
1981 · Director
movieCream in My Coffee
1980 · Director
Talking Pictures: Quadrophenia
movieTalking Pictures: Quadrophenia
1979 · Host, Producer
movieMonsieur Hulot's Work
1976 · Self - Interviewer
tvArena
1975 · Director
movieGoodbye
1975 · Director
tvWessex Tales
1973 · Director
Full House
tvFull House
1972 · Director
tvPlay for Today
1970 · Director
movieThe Eye Hears, the Ear Sees
1970 · Self, Director
movieVirginia Woolf: A Night's Darkness, A Day's Sail
1970 · Narrator
Review
tvReview
1969 · Director
tvOmnibus
1967 · Self