Gavin Millar

Gavin Millar (11 Januari 1938 – 20 April 2022) adalah seorang sutradara, kritikus, dan presenter televisi Skotlandia. Millar lahir di Clydebank, dekat Glasgow, putra Tom Millar dan istrinya Rita (née Osborne). Keluarganya pindah ke Midlands ketika dia berusia sembilan tahun dan dia dididik di King Edward's School, Birmingham. Ia menjalani dinas nasional di Royal Air Force dan kemudian membaca bahasa Inggris di Christ Church, Oxford dari tahun 1958 hingga 1961. Millar mengambil kursus film pascasarjana di Slade School of Fine Art di London. Millar adalah kritikus film untuk The Listener dari tahun 1970 hingga 1984. Ia juga berkontribusi pada Sight and Sound dan London Review of Books. Ia menulis bagian baru pada buku Karel Reisz The Technique of Film Editing untuk edisi 1968. Di televisi, ia menulis, memproduksi dan menyajikan Arena Cinema untuk BBC dari tahun 1976 hingga 1980, dan menulis serta menyajikan banyak film dokumenter sinema dan seni visual lainnya. Pada tahun 1980, dia menyutradarai Dennis Potter's Cream in My Coffee untuk London Weekend Television, yang menerima nominasi BAFTA. Film fitur pertamanya sebagai sutradara adalah Dreamchild tahun 1985. Dia kemudian berkolaborasi dengan produser Dreamchild, Rick McCallum lagi di episode Peking, Maret 1910, bagian dari serial televisi George Lucas The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles pada tahun 1993. Itu kemudian diedit ulang untuk menjadi bagian dari Journey of Radiance ketika serial tersebut menjadi The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones pada rilis DVD-nya. Film televisinya tahun 1994 Pat dan Margaret, menampilkan Victoria Wood, menerima nominasi BAFTA lebih lanjut, dan Ibu Rumah Tangga, 49 (2006), yang kemudian berkolaborasi dengan Wood, memenangkan penghargaan tahun 2007. Millar meninggal karena tumor otak pada 20 April 2022, dalam usia 84 tahun. Ia meninggalkan lima anaknya dan enam cucunya.

Gavin Millar (11 January 1938 – 20 April 2022) was a Scottish film director, critic and television presenter. 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. Millar was a film critic for The Listener from 1970 to 1984. 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. 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. In 1980, he directed Dennis Potter's Cream in My Coffee for London Weekend Television, which received a BAFTA nomination. His first feature film as director was 1985's Dreamchild. 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. 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. Millar died of a brain tumour on 20 April 2022, aged 84. He was survived by his five children and by six grandchildren.