Alastair Reid (director)
Writer, director
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| Intro | Writer, director | |
| A.K.A. | Alastair Jackson Wallace Reid | |
| A.K.A. | Alastair Jackson Wallace Reid | |
| Places | United Kingdom | |
| was | Film director Screenwriter | |
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio | |
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| Birth | 21 July 1939, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom | |
| Death | 17 August 2011Somerset, South West England, England, United Kingdom (aged 72 years) |
The details
Biography
Alastair Reid (born 21 July 1939 in Edinburgh — died 17 August 2011 in Stoke St Gregory, Somerset) was a British television director whose credits include the TV series Traffik and Tales of the City and Shout at the Devil.
Reid studied at Edinburgh College of Art before studying directing at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In 1964 he directed episodes of Emergency-Ward 10 for ATV and worked regularly in television for over thirty years. One of his later works was directing the 1997 TV adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo.
Filmography
- Baby Love (1968)
- The Night Digger (1971)
- Something to Hide (1972)
- Six Faces (1972)
- South Riding (1974)
- Shades of Greene (1975)
- The Flight of The Heron (1976)
- Shout at the Devil (1976)
- Gangsters (1976–77)
- Curriculee Curricula (1978)
- Hazell (1979)
- Artemis 81 (1981)
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1980)
- Traffik (1989)
- Tales of the City (1993)
- Nostromo (1996)