Gavin Millar

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 Edwards 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 Reiszs 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 Potters Cream in My Coffee for London Weekend Television which received a BAFTA nomination His first feature film as director was 1985s Dreamchild He would later collaborate with Dreamchilds producer Rick McCallum again on the episode Peking March 1910 part of George Lucass television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in 1993 It was later reedited 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