Douglas Camfield
Directing
Born 1931-05-08
Died 1984-01-27
England, UK
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Douglas Gaston Sydney Camfield (8 May 1931 – 27 January 1984) was a British television director, active from the 1960s to the 1980s. His directing credits included Doctor Who, Z-Cars, Paul Temple, Public Eye, The Lotus Eaters, Van der Valk, The Sweeney, The Onedin Line, Blake's 7, Shoestring, The Professionals, Out of the Unknown, The Nightmare Man, the BBC dramatisation of Beau Geste, and Ivanhoe, the 1982 television movie.
Camfield studied at the York School of Art and aimed to work for The Walt Disney Company. He was commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps in 1951 during his national service. Later that year, he transferred to the West Yorkshire Regiment (Territorial Army). He was promoted to lieutenant in 1952 and was training to be in the Special Air Service, but due to an injury, he pulled out of the application process. It has often been noted by those who worked with him that Camfield always retained an affection for the army and brought military standards of organisation to the programmes he subsequently directed.
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Filmography
Directing
50 credits
Doctor Who
Play for Today
The Professionals
Z-Cars
Van der Valk
The Sweeney
Blake's 7
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Public Eye
The Onedin Line
Special Branch
Out of the Unknown
The Troubleshooters
Shoestring
Paul Temple
Detective
Target
Danger UXB
Tales of the Tardis
The Lotus Eaters
Sutherland's Law
Beau Geste
Ivanhoe
The Venturers
The Walls of Jericho
Accident
Breaking Point
The Man Outside
The Nightmare Man
Armchair Theatre
Trial
Doctor Who: The Chase
Doctor Who: Inferno
Swizzlewick
Doctor Who: The Crusade
Blake's 7: Duel
Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan
Company and Co
Doctor Who: The Time Meddler
Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
Missing from Home
Watch the Birdies
The Nightmare Man
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
Doctor Who: The Invasion
Number on End
Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
The Last Lonely Man
The Golden Road
Acting
4 credits
Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
Doctor Who: Marco Polo
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