- Born
- DiedFebruary 24, 2020 (prostate cancer)
- Birth nameBrian Stainton Armstrong
- Brian Armstrong was born on October 10, 1933 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK. He was a producer and writer, known for Wood and Walters (1981), How's Your Father? (1974) and Game, Set, and Match (1988). He was married to Christine Moffat. He died on February 24, 2020.
- SpouseChristine Moffat(1964 - February 24, 2020) (his death, 2 children)
- While he was working as the director of a news crew which was reporting the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he knew that he might need to appear on camera, so he borrowed a jacket from the wardrobe department at Granada TV studios before he set off. Several days later, in the middle of mayhem of war, he received a frantic phone call from the production team of Coronation Street (1960). "Can we have Albert Tatlock's jacket back immediately - we need it for filming a scene".
- Whilst producing the 1992 awards for What the Papers Say (1956) , Brian wrote to the Prince of Wales asking if he would present the awards and make a small speech. Addressing the letter to Commander Richard Aylard, the then Private Secretary to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, he added the following thoughtful P.S.: "I enclose a first-class stamp for the Prince's reply. I thought it would please him: it has the head of his mother, The Queen, on it."
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