About

Known credits:
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Birthday:
1931-05-08
Place of birth:
England, UK
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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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1976 Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius Actor Morbius Doctor (picture) (uncredited) 58
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Directing

1982 Ivanhoe Directing Director 59
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1981 The Nightmare Man Directing Director N/A
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1981 The Nightmare Man Directing Director 69
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1980 Number on End Directing Director N/A
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1976 Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom Directing Director 58
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1975 Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons Directing Director 59
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1970 Doctor Who: Inferno Directing Director 58
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1969 The Last Lonely Man Directing Director N/A
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1968 Doctor Who: The Invasion Directing Director 59
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1968 Doctor Who: The Web of Fear Directing Director 58
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1966 Breaking Point Directing Director N/A
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1966 Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan Directing Director 58
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1965 Doctor Who: The Time Meddler Directing Director 58
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1965 Doctor Who: The Chase Directing Director 58
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1965 Doctor Who: The Crusade Directing Director 58
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1964 Doctor Who: Planet of Giants Directing Director 58
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The Golden Road Directing Director N/A
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Production

1964 Doctor Who: Marco Polo Production Production Assistant 59
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