---
name: "Gavin Millar"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gavin-millar"
fi1m_id: "gavin-millar"
imdb_id: "nm0587669"
tmdb_id: 134114
wikidata_id: "Q3099597"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "11 January 1938"
died: "20 April 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T14:22:58.319601+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."
---

# Gavin Millar

## Identity

Gavin Millar

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gavin-millar
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gavin-millar
- **IMDb ID:** nm0587669
- **TMDB ID:** 134114
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3099597
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Millar, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3099597, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0587669/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134114

Director. Born 11 January 1938 in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK. Died 20 April 2022.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 11 January 1938, Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
- **Died:** 20 April 2022
- **Active:** 1970–2006
- **Frequently works with:** [Giles Foster](https://film.one/person/giles-foster.md), [Alan Bennett](https://film.one/person/alan-bennett.md), [Kenith Trodd](https://film.one/person/kenith-trodd.md), [Tristram Powell](https://film.one/person/tristram-powell.md), [Victoria Wood](https://film.one/person/victoria-wood-138175.md), Dennis Potter, Stuart Burge
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as director, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Millar, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3099597, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0587669/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134114

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Foyle's War*](https://film.one/tv/foyles-war.md) (81)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Housewife, 49*](https://film.one/film/housewife-49.md) (77)

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

## Biography

Gavin Millar (11 January 1938 – 20 April 2022) was a Scottish film and television director, critic and presenter. Born in Clydebank, he was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, undertook national service in the Royal Air Force, and read English at Christ Church, Oxford. He later took a postgraduate film course at the Slade School of Fine Art.

Millar worked as a film critic for The Listener from 1970 to 1984 and contributed to Sight and Sound and the London Review of Books. He presented Arena Cinema for the BBC and wrote a section for the 1968 edition of Karel Reisz's The Technique of Film Editing. His directing credits include episodes of Play for Today (from 1970), the Dennis Potter play Cream in My Coffee (1980), Talking Heads (1988), Pat and Margaret (1994), The Crow Road (1996) and episodes of Foyle's War (2002 onwards).

His feature films as director include Dreamchild (1985). He also directed an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992) and collaborated with Victoria Wood on several projects.

*Sources: imdb.com, telegraph.co.uk, wikidata.org, scotsman.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Housewife, 49* (2006), Fi1m 77, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/housewife-49.md)
- *Foyle's War* (2002), Fi1m 81, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/foyles-war.md)

## Complete filmography (52)

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

- *Albert Schweitzer* (2009), Director
- *Housewife, 49* (2006), Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/housewife-49.md)
- *Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup* (2006), Director
- *The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin* (2004), as Voiceover Interviewer (Archive Footage)
- *King of Fridges* (2004), Director
- *Benefit to Mankind* (2004), Director
- *New Tricks* (2004), series, as Theatre Director
- *The Last Detective* (2003), series, Director
- *Foyle's War* (2002), series, Director — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/foyles-war.md)
- *Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister* (2002), Director
- *My Fragile Heart* (2000), Director
- *The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance* (2000), Director
- *Complicity* (2000), Director
- *The Vice* (1999), series, Director
- *Talking Heads 2* (1998), Director
- *Sex & Chocolate* (1997), Director
- *The Crow Road* (1996), series, Director
- *Funny Bones* (1995), as Steve Campbell
- *Belle Époque* (1995), series, Director
- *Pat and Margaret* (1994), Director
- *The Dwelling Place* (1994), series, Director
- *Look At It This Way* (1992), series, Director
- *My Friend Walter* (1992), Director
- *The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles* (1992), series, Director
- *A Murder of Quality* (1991), Director
- *Screen One* (1989), series, Director
- *Danny the Champion of the World* (1989), Director
- *The Most Dangerous Man in the World* (1988), Director
- *Tidy Endings* (1988), Director
- *Talking Heads* (1988), series, Director
- *The Ruth Rendell Mysteries* (1987), series, Director
- *Scoop* (1987), Director
- *Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios* (1986), as Narrator
- *The Russian Soldier* (1986), Director
- *Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill* (1985), Director
- *Dreamchild* (1985), Director
- *Unfair Exchanges* (1985), Director
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, Director
- *The Weather in the Streets* (1983), Director
- *Secrets* (1983), Director
- *Intensive Care* (1982), Director
- *A Pretty British Affair* (1981), Director
- *Cream in My Coffee* (1980), Director
- *Talking Pictures: Quadrophenia* (1979), as Host · Producer
- *Arena* (1975), series, Director
- *Goodbye* (1975), Director
- *Wessex Tales* (1973), series, Director
- *Full House* (1972), series, Director
- *Play for Today* (1970), series, Director
- *The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees* (1970), Director
- *Virginia Woolf: A Night's Darkness, A Day's Sail* (1970), as Narrator
- *Review* (1969), series, Director

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