Directing

Alastair Reid

Born — Died

1939-07-21 — 2011-08-17

Place of birth

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

18 titles

Alastair Reid was a Scottish television and film director, described by The Guardian on his death as "one of Britain's finest directors of television drama". Reid studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Known for

Shout at the Devil poster
6.0

During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.

Shout at the Devil

1976

What Rats Won't Do poster
5.0

Soon to be married lawyer Kate Beckenham has landed the case of a lifetime. Her courtroom opponent turns out to be the charming Jack Sullivan, who has never lost a single case.

What Rats Won't Do

1998

Baby Love poster
5.1

Following the suicide of her mother, an emotionally disoriented schoolgirl is swept away to live in the countryside by wealthy family friends. Her entangled need for comfort and desire to explore her powers of sexual fascination soon embroils the entire household.

Baby Love

1969

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story poster
5.8

For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time union board member and when he retired, Jackie was elevated to one of the most powerful position in the country; President of the Teamsters Union.

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story

1992

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde poster
6.2

Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

1980

No artwork available
NR

A plumber named Benny tries to find his way around a university, and gets no sense out of the intellectuals who work and study there.

Curriculee Curricula

1978

Behind the camera

Shout at the Devil poster
6.0

During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.

Shout at the Devil

1976

What Rats Won't Do poster
5.0

Soon to be married lawyer Kate Beckenham has landed the case of a lifetime. Her courtroom opponent turns out to be the charming Jack Sullivan, who has never lost a single case.

What Rats Won't Do

1998

Baby Love poster
5.1

Following the suicide of her mother, an emotionally disoriented schoolgirl is swept away to live in the countryside by wealthy family friends. Her entangled need for comfort and desire to explore her powers of sexual fascination soon embroils the entire household.

Baby Love

1969

Baby Love poster
5.1

Following the suicide of her mother, an emotionally disoriented schoolgirl is swept away to live in the countryside by wealthy family friends. Her entangled need for comfort and desire to explore her powers of sexual fascination soon embroils the entire household.

Baby Love

1969

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story poster
5.8

For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time union board member and when he retired, Jackie was elevated to one of the most powerful position in the country; President of the Teamsters Union.

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story

1992

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde poster
6.2

Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

1980

No artwork available
NR

A plumber named Benny tries to find his way around a university, and gets no sense out of the intellectuals who work and study there.

Curriculee Curricula

1978

Selling Hitler poster
8.0

In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.

Selling Hitler

1993

The Story of a Recluse poster
NR

Fragment of a story by Robert Louis Stevenson, completed by Alasdair Gray. A dissolute medical student wakes up in the bedroom of a young woman who fascinates him, in a house where nightly gambling sessions are held.

The Story of a Recluse

1987

The Road Builder poster
6.3

The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there may be more to him than meets the eye.

The Road Builder

1971

Artemis '81 poster
4.1

Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith's evil brother Asrael. Ranging from Oxford to Denmark, a North Sea ferry to an alien planet, Harlax unwittingly becomes part of an ancient plot that may result in the destruction of Earth...

Artemis '81

1981

South Riding poster
NR

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

South Riding

1974

Big Jim and the Figaro Club poster
NR

In the early 1950s 'College' comes down from Cambridge to work for the summer with his old mates on the buildings - only to find a seething passion gripping the Figaro Club.

Big Jim and the Figaro Club

1979

Something to Hide poster
5.8

A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and mixed up in violence and murder.

Something to Hide

1973

Something to Hide poster
5.8

A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and mixed up in violence and murder.

Something to Hide

1973

A View of Harry Clark poster
NR

Harry Clark is a social worker on the verge of cracking up. His job is to help other people: who is there to help him?

A View of Harry Clark

1989

No artwork available
4.5

An elderly priest recruits a young woman as housekeeper in the presbytery he shares with two young priests, but temptation and jealousy soon sew discord and doubt in some minds.

The Prodigal Daughter

1975

Three's One poster
7.0

Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leafer? Or are they using Dr Leafer as a means of communicating with each other?

Three's One

1973