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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Bill Forsyth is a
British film director and writer, noted for his commitment to national
film-making. Forsyth first came to attention with a low-budget film,
That Sinking Feeling, made with youth theatre actors and featuring a
cameo appearance by the Edinburgh gallery owner Richard Demarco. The
relative success of the film was carried to a far higher level by his
next film Gregory's Girl in 1981. This featured some of the same young
actors, in particular John Gordon Sinclair, as well as the acting debut
of Clare Grogan. The film was a major hit and won 'Best Screenplay' in
that year's BAFTA Awards. In 1983 he wrote and directed the successful
Local Hero, produced by David Puttnam, and featuring Burt Lancaster. It
was rated in the top 100 films of the 1980s in a Premiere magazine recap
of the decade. Forsyth's next film was the 1984 Comfort and Joy, about a
Glasgow radio DJ caught between rival ice cream companies, which again
featured Clare Grogan.
