Gavin Millar

Biography

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 arts documentaries. In 1980, he directed Dennis Potter's Cream in My Coffee for London Weekend Television, which received a BAFTA nomination. His first feature film as director was 1985's Dreamchild. He would later collaborate with Dreamchild's producer Rick McCallum again on the episode Peking, Ma…

Directed

1. The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992) — Director
2. Foyle's War (2002) — Director
3. Dreamchild (1985) — Director
4. A Murder of Quality (1991) — Director
5. Danny the Champion of the World (1989) — Director
6. Housewife, 49 (2006) — Director
7. The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance (2000) — Director
8. The Crow Road (1996) — Director
9. Complicity (2000) — Director
10. The Last Detective (2003) — Director
11. The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987) — Director
12. Pat and Margaret (1994) — Director
13. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2002) — Director
14. Play for Today (1970) — Director
15. Arena (1975) — Director
16. The Vice (1999) — Director
17. Scoop (1987) — Director
18. Talking Heads (1988) — Director
19. Screen Two (1985) — Director
20. Cream in My Coffee (1980) — Director
21. Secrets (1983) — Director
22. Screen One (1989) — Director
23. Albert Schweitzer (2009) — Director
24. The Weather in the Streets (1983) — Director
25. The Dwelling Place (1994) — Director
26. Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (1985) — Director
27. Tidy Endings (1988) — Director
28. Wessex Tales (1973) — Director
29. Sex & Chocolate (1997) — Director
30. Talking Heads 2 (1998) — Director
31. Goodbye (1975) — Director
32. King of Fridges (2004) — Director
33. Belle Époque (1995) — Director
34. The Russian Soldier (1986) — Director
35. Intensive Care (1982) — Director
36. The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees (1970) — Director
37. My Friend Walter (1992) — Director
38. My Fragile Heart (2000) — Director
39. Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup (2006) — Director
40. Unfair Exchanges (1985) — Director

Also appeared in

1. New Tricks (2004) — Theatre Director
2. Funny Bones (1995) — Steve Campbell
3. Omnibus (1967) — Self
4. Creative Process: Norman McLaren (1990) — Self - Interviewer (archive footage)
5. The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin (2004) — Voiceover Interviewer (Archive Footage)
6. The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees (1970) — Self
7. Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios (1986) — Narrator
8. Monsieur Hulot's Work (1976) — Self - Interviewer
9. Talking Pictures: Quadrophenia (1979) — Host
10. Virginia Woolf: A Night's Darkness, A Day's Sail (1970) — Narrator