Margaret Tait
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderFemale
Birthday11 November 1918
Died16 April 1999 (age 80)
Place of birthKirkwall, United Kingdom
Known credits51
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).
Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995
2020 · herself
Before Words
2014 · Writer
Garden Pieces
1998 · Director
Blue Black Permanent
1992 · Director
Blue Black Permanent
1992 · Writer
Margaret Tait: Film Maker
1983 · Self
Land Makar
1981 · Director
Aspects of Kirkwall 6: Some Changes
1981 · Director
Aspects of Kirkwall No. 5: The Look of the Place
1981 · Director
Aspects of Kirkwall 4: The Ba
1980 · Director
Local News: Bu of Cairston Broch
1978 · Director
Shop!
1978 · Director
Hydro Poles by Helicopter
1978 · Director
Aspects of Kirkwall 3: Occasions
1977 · Director
Place of Work
1976 · Director
Place of Work
1976 · Writer
Place of Work
1976 · Producer
Place of Work
1976 · Director of Photography
Tailpiece
1976 · Director
Tailpiece
1976 · Writer
Start of a Race, end of a show, etc.
1976 · Director
Survivor
1976 · Director
Colour Poems
1974 · Narrator
Aerial
1974 · Director
Colour Poems
1974 · Director
These Walls
1974 · Director
Aspects of Kirkwall 2: Shape of a Town
1974 · Director
Eclipse
1973 · Director
On the Mountain
1973 · Director
John MacFadyen
1970 · Director
Painted Eightsome
1970 · Director
Growing Up: Chinese Geese in Orkney
1970 · Director
A Pleasant Place
1969 · Director
A Pleasant Place
1969 · Editor
Splashing
1966 · Director
Caora Mor: The Big Sheep
1966 · Director
Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait
1964 · Director
Where I Am Is Here
1964 · Director
Where I Am Is Here
1964 · Writer
Palindrome
1964 · Director
Edinburgh
1958 · Director
The Drift Back
1957 · Director
Rose Street
1956 · Director
Rose Street
1956 · Writer
Rose Street
1956 · Producer
Rose Street
1956 · Director of Photography
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
1955 · Narrator
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