Plaque for Bill Douglas, Film Director
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Plaque for Bill Douglas, Film Director
Image: © M J Richardson Taken: 18 Feb 2009
Bill Douglas [1934-1991] was born in the mining village of Newcraighall. His professional work retraced events of his own childhood and early adult life, as The Trilogy, comprising My Childhood (1972), My Ain Folk (1973) and My Way Home (1978) which won many international awards. His next project, the epic Comrades, took eight years to realise, finally emerging in 1987 as a three-hour account of the nineteenth-century trade union pioneers the Tolpuddle Martyrs
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