David Blair (director)
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David Blair is a British film and television director. He has received a BAFTA award for The Street.
Blair directed Common, a 2014 BBC One 90-minute made-for-television drama, written by Jimmy McGovern and starring Michelle Fairley, Nico Mirallegro and Michael Gambon, which sought to question some of the issues and challenges raised by England's common purpose legal doctrine.[1]
During 2014 Blair completed the feature film The Messenger (released 2015), starring Robert Sheehan, Lily Cole, Tamzin Merchant, Joely Richardson and David O'Hara.
His 2016 feature film Away starred Timothy Spall, Juno Temple, Matt Ryan and Susan Lynch. Blair then went on to complete another Jimmy McGovern film for the BBC, Reg (2016) starring Tim Roth and Anna Maxwell Martin. Blair worked with Jimmy McGovern in The Lakes (1997), The Street (2006–09) and Accused (2010–12).[2]