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Margaret Tait

Margaret Tait

Personal Info

Known for
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1918-11-11
Day of Death
1999-04-16 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Kirkwall, United Kingdom

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

Acting

(2024)
Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995
as herself
(1983)
Margaret Tait: Film Maker
as Self
(1974)
Colour Poems
as Narrator
(1955)
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
as Narrator
(1952)
A Portrait of Ga
as Narrator

Crew

(2014)
Before Words
Writer
(1998)
Garden Pieces
Director
(1992)
Blue Black Permanent
Director, Writer
(1981)
Land Makar
Director
(1981)
Aspects of Kirkwall 6: Some Changes
Director
(1981)
Aspects of Kirkwall No. 5: The Look of the Place
Director
(1980)
Aspects of Kirkwall 4: The Ba
Director
(1978)
Local News: Bu of Cairston Broch
Director
(1978)
Shop!
Director
(1978)
Hydro Poles by Helicopter
Director
(1977)
Aspects of Kirkwall 3: Occasions
Director
(1976)
Place of Work
Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
(1976)
Tailpiece
Director, Writer
(1976)
Start of a Race, end of a show, etc.
Director
(1976)
Survivor
Director
(1974)
Aerial
Director
(1974)
Colour Poems
Director
(1974)
These Walls
Director
(1974)
Aspects of Kirkwall 2: Shape of a Town
Director
(1973)
On the Mountain
Director
(1973)
Eclipse
Director
(1970)
John MacFadyen
Director
(1970)
Painted Eightsome
Director
(1970)
Growing Up: Chinese Geese in Orkney
Director
(1969)
A Pleasant Place
Director, Editor
(1966)
Splashing
Director
(1966)
Caora Mor: The Big Sheep
Director
(1964)
Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait
Director
(1964)
Where I Am Is Here
Director, Writer
(1964)
Palindrome
Director
(1958)
Edinburgh
Director
(1957)
The Drift Back
Director
(1956)
Rose Street
Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
(1955)
Calypso
Director
(1955)
Edinburgh General
Director
(1955)
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
Director
(1955)
Orquil Burn
Director
(1955)
Princes Street Edinburgh
Director
(1955)
The Royal Mile Edinburgh
Director
(1955)
All These New Relations
Director
(1954)
Happy Bees
Director
(1952)
A Portrait of Ga
Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
(1951)
Three Portrait Sketches
Director, Editor, Cinematography
(1951)
The Lion the Griffin and the Kangaroo
Director
(1951)
My Room, Via Ancona 21
Director
(1951)
One Is One
Director
(1950)
Perugia in Umbria
Director
(1949)
Milano
Director