Margaret Tait

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Known For Directing

Known Credits 46

Gender Female

Birthday November 11, 1918

Day of Death April 16, 1999 (80 years old)

Place of Birth Kirkwall, United Kingdom

Also Known As

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Margaret Tait

Biography

Margaret Caroline Tait was a Scottish film maker and poet. Tait attended the University of Edinburgh, gaining qualifications in Medicine (1941). She later moved to Rome, where she studied filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (1950–1952).

Known For

Directing

1998

… Director

1995

… Director

1992

… Director

1981		Aspects of Kirkwall No. 5: The Look of the Place … Director
1981		Aspects of Kirkwall 6: Some Changes … Director
1981		Land Makar … Director

1980

… Director

1978		Hydro Poles by Helicopter … Director
1978		Local News: Bu of Cairston Broch … Director
1978		Shop! … Director

1977

… Director

1976		Place of Work … Director
1976		Tailpiece … Director

1974		Aspects of Kirkwall 2: Shape of a Town … Director
1974		These Walls … Director
1974		Colour Poems … Director
1974		Aerial … Director

1973

… Director

1970		John MacFadyen … Director
1970		Growing Up: Chinese Geese in Orkney … Director
1970		Painted Eightsome … Director

1966		Caora Mor: The Big Sheep … Director
1966		Splashing … Director

1964		Palindrome … Director
1964		Where I Am Is Here … Director
1964		Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait … Director

1958

… Director

1957

… Director

1956

… Director

1955		The Royal Mile Edinburgh … Director
1955		Princes Street Edinburgh … Director
1955		Orquil Burn … Director
1955		The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo … Director
1955		Edinburgh General … Director
1955		Calypso … Director

1954

… Director

1952

… Director

1951		Three Portrait Sketches … Director
1951		One Is One … Director
1951		My Room, Via Ancona 21 … Director
1951		The Lion the Griffin and the Kangaroo … Director

1938

… Director

Writing

2014

… Writer

1992

… Writer

1976		Place of Work … Writer
1976		Tailpiece … Writer

1964

… Writer

1956

… Writer

1952

… Writer

Acting

2023

as Self (archive footage)

2020

as herself

1983

as Self

1974

as Narrator

1955

as Narrator

1952

as Narrator

Camera

1976

… Director of Photography

1956

… Director of Photography

1952

… Director of Photography

Production

1976

… Producer

1956

… Producer

1952

… Producer

Editing

1952

… Editor

1951

… Editor

Crew

1951

… Cinematography

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Margaret Tait

Biography

Known For

Directing

Writing

Acting

Camera

Production

Editing

Crew

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On TV episode pages

On all image pages

On all edit pages

On discussion pages

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