---
name: "Bill Gilmour"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bill-gilmour"
fi1m_id: "bill-gilmour"
imdb_id: "nm0319589"
tmdb_id: 1221324
wikidata_id: "Q4909147"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "17 March 1939"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:27:36.529983+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Bill Gilmour

## Identity

Bill Gilmour

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bill-gilmour
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bill-gilmour
- **IMDb ID:** nm0319589
- **TMDB ID:** 1221324
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4909147
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gilmour_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4909147, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319589/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221324

Director. Born 17 March 1939 in Peebles.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 17 March 1939, Peebles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gilmour_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4909147, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319589/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221324

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*EastEnders*](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Bill Gilmour is a Scottish television director. Born on 17 March 1939 in Peebles, he studied photography at Ealing Art College before beginning his career as a camera operator at Scottish Television in 1960. He later worked as a floor manager and joined Granada Television in 1967, where he started directing in 1972 and remained until 1989.

Gilmour directed numerous episodes of long-running British series, including over 150 episodes of *Coronation Street* between 1973 and 1987, as well as *The Cuckoo Waltz* (which he also produced), *Crown Court*, *Strangers*, *Bulman*, *Cribb* and *The Spoils of War*. He later directed episodes of *EastEnders* (1994–1996), *Hollyoaks* (1996) and the American soap *Loving* (1992–1993). He has also directed stage productions, including a 1980s Manchester production of *Before Breakfast* by Eugene O'Neill.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *EastEnders* (1985), Fi1m 70, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Bulman* (1985), series, Director
- *EastEnders* (1985), series, Director — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)
- *Cribb* (1980), series, Director
- *Strangers* (1978), series, Director
- *Some Enchanted Evening* (1978), Director
- *The Sunday Drama* (1977), series, Director
- *The Cuckoo Waltz* (1975), series, Director
- *ITV Playhouse* (1967), series, Director

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/bill-gilmour