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Gavin Millar

Critic/director

Born - 11 January 1938, Clydebank, Scotland
Died - 20 April 2022

Thickly dark-haired Scots-born film critic, interviewer and sometime director with angular features. A regular reviewer for the highbrow film magazine Sight and Sound, he began directing, initially for TV, in his late twenties. Cinema films include The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees (1970), Cream in My Coffee (1980), Secrets (1983), Dreamchild (1985), The Most Dangerous Man in the World (1987), Danny, the Champion of the World (1989), Complicity (2000), Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2002) and Albert Schweitzer (2009), his last, as well as numerous TV movies and episodes of drama series. Survived by his wife and five children, he died from a brain tumour.