
Douglas Camfield
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1931-05-08
Day of Death
1984-01-27 (52 years old)
Place of Birth
England, UK
Douglas Camfield
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting
(2013)
Remembering Douglas Camfield
as (archive footage)
(1976)
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
as Morbius Doctor (picture) (uncredited)
Crew
(1982)
Ivanhoe
Director
(1981)
The Nightmare Man
Director
(1980)
Number on End
Director
(1976)
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
Director
(1975)
Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
Director
(1973)
The Golden Road
Director
(1970)
Doctor Who: Inferno
Director
(1969)
The Last Lonely Man
Director
(1968)
Doctor Who: The Invasion
Director
(1968)
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
Director
(1966)
(1965)
Doctor Who: The Crusade
Director
(1965)
Doctor Who: The Chase
Director
(1965)
Doctor Who: The Time Meddler
Director
(1964)
Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
Director
(1964)
Doctor Who: Marco Polo
Production Assistant