R Acting Robert Armstrong Born March 30, 1927 · Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK Died April 3, 2020 · aged 93 Robert Temple Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster, GCB, CVO was a British civil servant and life peer. ↗ Share Known For‹World in Action · 1963World in Action★ 7.01963SeriesNewsDocumentaryWorld in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.▶+› FilmographySortPopularNewestTop ratedWorld in Action · 1963World in Action★ 7.01963SeriesNewsDocumentaryWorld in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.▶+
