Researching Moira Armstrong
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 22892 people with the Armstrong surname? In that year Armstrong was ranked number 145 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Moira means "the great" and is of Celtic origin.
Records of Moira Armstrong on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Moira Armstrong and the Armstrong Family History
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Some Famous People called Moira Armstrong
Moira Armstrong
Moira Armstrong (born 1930) is a Scottish television director whose career has expanded over nearly fifty years.
Born in Crieff and raised in north-east Scotland, Armstrong initially worked in BBC Radio where she trained as a continuity announcer before switching to television.
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 the 1971 adaptation for television of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song, 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).
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