Gavin Millar

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Gavin Millar
Born(1938-01-11)11 January 1938
Clydebank, Scotland
Died20 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

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

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

  1. ^ a b c d Gilbey, Ryan (28 April 2022). "Gavin Millar obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  2. – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Revisiting Some Classic Texts of Film Editing". 15 May 2012.
  4. ^ "Gavin Millar". BFI. Archived from the original on 27 February 2018.
  5. ^ "BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org.
  6. ^ "Dreamchild". Time Out Worldwide. 10 September 2012.
  7. ^ "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Journey of Radiance - Rotten Tomatoes". www.rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  8. ^ "Film makers on film Gavin Millar". Telegraph. 21 June 2004. Retrieved 14 July 2018.

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