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Alastair Reid is a Director and Scriptwriter British born on 21 july 1939 at Edinburgh (United-kingdom)

Alastair Reid

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 21 july 1939 at Edinburgh (United-kingdom)
Death 17 august 2011 (at 72 years) at Somerset (United-kingdom)

Alastair Reid (born 21 July 1939 in Edinburgh — died 17 August 2011 in Stoke St Gregory, Somerset) was a British television director whose credits include the TV series Traffik and Tales of the City and Shout at the Devil.

Reid studied at Edinburgh College of Art before studying directing at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In 1964 he directed episodes of Emergency-Ward 10 for ATV and worked regularly in television for over thirty years. One of his later works was directing the 1997 TV adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo.

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Alastair Reid
Alastair Reid
(5 films)
Linda Hayden
Linda Hayden
(2 films)
John Glen
John Glen
(2 films)
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Filmography of Alastair Reid (6 films)

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Director

Baby Love
Baby Love (1969)
, 1h33
Directed by Alastair Reid, Alastair Reid
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Keith Barron, Linda Hayden, Ann Lynn, Diana Dors, Dick Emery, Sheila Steafel
Rating57% 2.851242.851242.851242.851242.85124
Luci (Linda Hayden) lives alone with her promiscuous, alcoholic mother (a strange, mute, cameo by Diana Dors) in a poor suburb of London. Coming home from school one day Luci discovers her mother's body in the bathtub, her mother has slit her wrists.

Scriptwriter

H.E. Double Hockey Sticks, 1h36
Directed by Randall Miller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Ice hockey films, Musical films, Films based on operas
Actors Will Friedle, Matthew Lawrence, Gabrielle Union, Shawn Pyfrom, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Kim Greist
Roles Opera
Rating64% 3.244033.244033.244033.244033.24403
Satan, in the form of Ms. Beelzebub (Rhea Perlman), sends apprentice demon Griffelkin (Friedle) to Earth's surface to steal the soul of a hotshot young hockey player named Dave (Lawrence), who aspires to be the youngest man to ever win the Stanley Cup.
Shout at the Devil, 2h4
Directed by John Glen, Peter Hunt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Ian Holm, Barbara Parkins, Reinhard Kolldehoff, George Coulouris
Rating60% 3.0499353.0499353.0499353.0499353.049935
Colonel Flynn O'Flynn (Lee Marvin), a hard-drinking American, manipulates British aristocrat Sebastian Oldsmith (Roger Moore) into helping poach ivory in Tanganyika, which is part of the German-controlled pre-World War I territory of German East Africa. On hearing news that the American has returned, Herman Fleischer, the local German Commander of the Southern Provinces, relentlessly hunts O'Flynn with his Schutztruppen.
Baby Love
Baby Love (1969)
, 1h33
Directed by Alastair Reid, Alastair Reid
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Keith Barron, Linda Hayden, Ann Lynn, Diana Dors, Dick Emery, Sheila Steafel
Roles Writer
Rating57% 2.851242.851242.851242.851242.85124
Luci (Linda Hayden) lives alone with her promiscuous, alcoholic mother (a strange, mute, cameo by Diana Dors) in a poor suburb of London. Coming home from school one day Luci discovers her mother's body in the bathtub, her mother has slit her wrists.