
About
Douglas Camfield
Overview
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 |
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2013 | Remembering Douglas Camfield | Actor | (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
1976 | Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius | Actor | Morbius Doctor (picture) (uncredited) | 58 Average |
Directing |
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1982 | Ivanhoe | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1981 | The Nightmare Man | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1981 | The Nightmare Man | Directing | Director | 69 Fair |
1980 | Number on End | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1976 | Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1975 | Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1970 | Doctor Who: Inferno | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1969 | The Last Lonely Man | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1968 | Doctor Who: The Invasion | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1968 | Doctor Who: The Web of Fear | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1966 | Breaking Point | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1966 | Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1965 | Doctor Who: The Time Meddler | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1965 | Doctor Who: The Chase | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1965 | Doctor Who: The Crusade | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1964 | Doctor Who: Planet of Giants | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
The Golden Road | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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Production |
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1964 | Doctor Who: Marco Polo | Production | Production Assistant | 59 Average |