- 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 How's Your Father? (1974), Wood and Walters (1981) and Coronation Street (1960). 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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