Scottish critic, film director, and television presenter (1938–2022)
Gavin Millar
Born (1938-01-11 ) 11 January 1938Died 20 April 2022(2022-04-20) (aged 84) Occupations Critic film director television presenter
Gavin Millar (11 January 1938 – 20 April 2022) was a Scottish film director, critic and television presenter.
Biography
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 .[1]
Career
Millar was a film critic for The Listener from 1970 to 1984.[2] 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.[1] [3] 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.[4]
In 1980, he directed Dennis Potter 's Cream in My Coffee for London Weekend Television , which received a BAFTA nomination.[5] His first feature film as director was 1985's Dreamchild .[6] 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.[7] 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 .[8]
Marriage and children
Millar married Sylvia Lane in 1966. She died in 2012. The couple had five children.[1]
Death
Millar died of a brain tumour on 20 April 2022, aged 84. He was survived by his five children and by six grandchildren.[1]
Selected works
Feature films
TV
References
External links
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