Michael Grigsby

Biography

Michael Kenneth Christian Grigsby (7 June 1936 – 12 March 2013) was an English documentary filmmaker. With a filmography spanning six decades and nearly 30 films, Grigsby occupies a unique position in British documentary filmmaking, having witnessed and commented on many of the dramatic changes in British society (and beyond) from the late 1950s into the next century. As a critic noted, "from Michael Grigsby back to John Grierson runs an unbroken tradition in British documentary-making: a passionate commitment to the poetry of everyday life."

Directed

1. Enginemen (1959) — Director
2. Living on the Edge (1987) — Director
3. World in Action (1963) — Director
4. Red Letter Day (1976) — Director
5. We Went to War (2013) — Director
6. Tomorrow's Saturday (1962) — Director
7. A Life Apart: Anxieties in a Trawling Community (1973) — Director
8. The Time of Our Lives (1994) — Director
9. I Was a Soldier (1970) — Director
10. Dear Mr Gorbachev (1990) — Director
11. Deckie Learner (1965) — Director
12. The People’s Land, Eskimos of Pond Inlet (1976) — Director
13. Bag of Yeast (1976) — Director
14. Hidden Voices (1995) — Director
15. Ut Proficias (1953) — Director
16. No Tumbled House (1955) — Director
17. Viewpoint '90 (1990) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Right to Work March (1972)
2. Small Is Beautiful: The Story of the Free Cinema Films Told by Their Makers (2006) — Self