Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 11, 1938
Died
Apr 20, 2022
Place of Birth
Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
Credits
55 titles
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, March 1910, part of George Lucas's television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in 1993. It was later re-edited to be part of Journey of Radiance when the series became The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on its DVD release. His 1994 television film Pat and Margaret, featuring Victoria Wood, received a further BAFTA nomination, and Housewife, 49 (2006), a later collaboration with Wood, won the 2007 award. Millar died of a brain tumour on 20 April 2022, aged 84. He was survived by his five children and by six grandchildren.
Known For
Filmography
Albert Schweitzer
Director
Housewife, 49
Director
Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup
Director
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
Voiceover Interviewer (Archive Footage)
King of Fridges
Director
Benefit to Mankind
Director
New Tricks
Theatre Director
The Last Detective
Director
Foyle's War
Director
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Director
My Fragile Heart
Director
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance
Director
Complicity
Director
The Vice
Director
Talking Heads 2
Director
Sex & Chocolate
Director
The Crow Road
Director
Funny Bones
Steve Campbell
Belle Époque
Director
Pat and Margaret
Director
The Dwelling Place
Director
Look At It This Way
Director
My Friend Walter
Director
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Director
A Murder of Quality
Director
Creative Process: Norman McLaren
Self - Interviewer (archive footage)
Screen One
Director
Danny the Champion of the World
Director
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
Director
Tidy Endings
Director
Talking Heads
Director
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Director
Scoop
Director
Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
Narrator
The Russian Soldier
Director
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Director
Dreamchild
Director
Unfair Exchanges
Director
Screen Two
Director
The Weather in the Streets
Director
Secrets
Director
Intensive Care
Director
A Pretty British Affair
Director
Cream in My Coffee
Director
Talking Pictures: Quadrophenia
Host
Monsieur Hulot's Work
Self - Interviewer
Arena
Director
Goodbye
Director
Wessex Tales
Director
Full House
Director