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Alastair Reid (director)

Scottish television director (1939–2011)

Summary

Scottish television director (1939–2011)

Field	Value
name	Alastair Reid
image	Alastair Reid (director).jpg
birth_date
birth_place	Edinburgh, Scotland
death_date
death_place	Stoke St Gregory, Somerset, England
alma_mater	Edinburgh College of Art
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
occupation	Film director, writer

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

Alastair Reid (21 July 1939 – 17 August 2011) was a Scottish television and film director, described by The Guardian on his death as "one of Britain's finest directors of television drama".

Early life and education

Born in Edinburgh, Reid studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Career

In 1964, Reid directed episodes of Emergency-Ward 10 for ATV and worked regularly in television for over thirty years. His work included writing the screenplay of the film Shout at the Devil (1976) and directing the first episode of Inspector Morse in 1987, as well as directing the television series Gangsters (1976—78), the serial Traffik (1989), the television series Selling Hitler (1991), based on the Hitler diaries, the miniseries Tales of the City (1993), and the 1997 television adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo.

Filmography

Baby Love (1969)
The Night Digger (1971)
Something to Hide (1972)
Shades of Greene (1975)
Shout at the Devil (1976) (screenplay)
Gangsters (1976–77)
Hazell (1979)
Artemis 81 (1981)
Inspector Morse: The Dead of Jericho (1987)
Traffik (1989)
Selling Hitler (1991)
Tales of the City (1993)
Nostromo (1996)
What Rats Won't Do (1998)

References

Ansorge, Peter. (9 September 2011). "Alastair Reid obituary". [[The Guardian]].
[[Richard Eder. (February 2025}}{{cite news). "Shout Whispers on Screen". [[The New York Times]].
Gaughan, Gavin (22 September 2011). [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/alastair-reid-director-whose-career-highlights-included-traffik-and-tales-of-the-city-2358671.html Alastair Reid: Director whose career highlights included 'Traffik' and 'Tales of the City']. ''[[The Independent]]''. Retrieved 2 February 2025.

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