
Directing
Bill Forsyth
Born
1946-07-29 (80)
Place of birth
Glasgow, Scotland
Known for
Directing
Credits
30 titles
William David Forsyth (born 29 July 1946) is a Scottish film director and screenwriter known for his films Gregory's Girl (1981), Local Hero (1983) and Comfort and Joy (1984) as well as his adaptation of the Marilynne Robinson novel Housekeeping (1987). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Forsyth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
The BBC's flagship cinema review TV program featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the program changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.
Film '72
1971
7.7A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
6.8An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Local Hero
1983
6.8A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.
Gregory's Girl
1980
5.1One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
Being Human
1994
4.8Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they want their teacher to help them expose the wrong-doer, who happens to be Greg's old schoolfriend.
Gregory's Two Girls
1999
Film credits
1980s · 3 titles
6.0An interview for Scottish television of film director Bill Forsyth
"I Thought Maybe I'd Get to Meet Alan Whicker": A Conversation with Bill Forsyth
1986
NRDocumentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."
The Making of a 'Local Hero' (With a Little Help from His Friends)
1983
NRA look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'. Chris Menges discusses his early career in television and film. Featuring interviews with Bill Forsyth, Bill Paterson, Ken Loach, Neil Jordan, and Jeremy Isaacs.
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
1985
1970s · 1 titles
Series credits
The BBC's flagship cinema review TV program featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the program changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.
Film '72
1971
7.7A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
Behind the camera
6.8An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Local Hero
1983
6.8An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Local Hero
1983
6.8A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.
Gregory's Girl
1980
6.8A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.
Gregory's Girl
1980
5.1One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
Being Human
1994
5.1One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
Being Human
1994
4.8Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they want their teacher to help them expose the wrong-doer, who happens to be Greg's old schoolfriend.
Gregory's Two Girls
1999
4.8Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they want their teacher to help them expose the wrong-doer, who happens to be Greg's old schoolfriend.
Gregory's Two Girls
1999
6.6Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Comfort and Joy
1984
6.6Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Comfort and Joy
1984
8.0Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the dark winter, he is grateful for her kindness and company. But as she starts to enquire about his past, he worries about the long-held secret he'll have to reveal to her.
Andrina
1981
8.0Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the dark winter, he is grateful for her kindness and company. But as she starts to enquire about his past, he worries about the long-held secret he'll have to reveal to her.
Andrina
1981
5.7Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.
Breaking In
1989
6.6In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Housekeeping
1987
6.6In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Housekeeping
1987
6.1Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion-potion.
That Sinking Feeling
1980
6.1Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion-potion.
That Sinking Feeling
1980
6.1Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion-potion.
That Sinking Feeling
1980
6.0A tour of the landscape and wildlife of the Western Isles in Scotland.
Islands of the West
1972
NRHighland boat-building, showing intermediate processes of clinker- and carvel built boats, as well as those involved in ferroconcrete and steel construction of boats. Footage of ferries, fishing boats, power boats, and sailing boats.
Shapes In The Water
1974
NRA portrait of the Scottish artist Sir William Gillies.
Still Life with Honesty
1970
A look at how the landscape of the Scottish Highlands has been shaped by man.
The Living Land
1976
NRA documentary profile of three Scottish screenwriters: Edward Boyd, Gordon Williams and Alan Sharp.
The Odd Man
1978


