Person

Jill Craigie

Writing · 1911–1999 · Fulham, London, England

Jill Craigie was an English documentary film director, screenwriter, socialist and feminist. Born to a Russian mother and a Scottish father, she was married to the Labour Party politician Michael Foot, whom she met during the making of her film The Way We Live.

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  The Million Pound Note

  Screenplay

• Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures

  1986

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  Labour's Old Romantic: A Film Portrait of Michael Foot

  Self

• Make-Up

  Tania

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  Windom's Way

  Screenplay

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  Blue Scar

  Director

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  The Flemish Farm

  Writer

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  To Be a Woman

  Director

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  The Way We Live

  Director

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  Children of the Ruins

  Narrator

• 2020Independent Miss CraigieHerself (Archive Footage)
• 1997Labour's Old Romantic: A Film Portrait of Michael FootSelf
• 1995Two Hours from LondonDirector
• 1986Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
• 1957Windom's WayScreenplay
• 1954The Million Pound NoteScreenplay
• 1951To Be a WomanDirector
• 1949Blue ScarDirector
• 1948Children of the RuinsNarrator
• 1946The Way We LiveDirector
• 1944Out of ChaosDirector
• 1943The Flemish FarmWriter
• 1937Make-UpTania