Jill Craigie
British film director (1914-1999) · United Kingdom · On the map · Directors · Died at 85
Noreen Jean "Jill" Craigie was a British documentary film director, producer, screenwriter and feminist. She was one of Britain's earliest female documentary makers.
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Labour's Old Romantic: A Film Portrait of Michael FootFilm1995
Two Hours from LondonFilm, Director, Writer1986Fifties Features - The Women behind the PicturesSeries1957
Windom's WayFilm, Writer1954
The Million Pound NoteFilm, Writer1951
To Be a WomanFilm, Director, Writer1949
Blue ScarFilm, Director, Writer1948
Children of the RuinsFilm, Director, Writer1946
The Way We LiveFilm, Director, Writer1944
Out of ChaosFilm, Director, Writer1943
The Flemish FarmFilm, Writer1937Make-UpFilm, Tania1914Born7 March 1914People around Jill
Ronald Neame Directed The Million Pound Note and Windom's Way
John Bryan Produced The Million Pound Note and Windom's Way- Jeffrey Dell Directed The Flemish Farm (1943)
Ernest Thesiger Directed The Million Pound Note (1954)
Ronald Squire Also in The Flemish Farm (1943)- Sydney Box Produced The Flemish Farm (1943)
Earl St. John Produced The Million Pound Note (1954)- William MacQuitty Produced Blue Scar (1949)
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Her early films demonstrate Craigie's interest in socialist and feminist politics, but her career as a film-maker has been "somewhat eclipsed" by her marriage to the Labour Party leader Michael Foot (1913-2010), whom she met during the making of her film The Way We Live (1946).
