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Douglas Camfield
Director, Actor, Writer, Additional Credits
Born May 8, 1931Died January 27, 1984 (52 years)
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.
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.
Filmography
| 2023 | Tales of the Tardis (TV Series) |
| 1999 | |
| 1986 | |
| 1984 | Missing From Home (TV Series) |
| 1982 | Beau Geste (TV Series) |
| 1982 | |
| 1981 | The Nightmare Man (TV Series) |
| 1979 | Shoestring (TV Series) |
| 1979 | Danger UXB (TV Series) |
| 1978 | Blake's 7 (TV Series) |
| 1977 | The Professionals (TV Series) |
| 1977 | Target (TV Series) |
| 1975 | |
| 1975 | The Sweeney (TV Series) |
| 1973 | Sutherland's Law (TV Series) |
| 1972 | Van der Valk (TV Series) |
| 1972 | The Lotus Eaters (TV Series) |
| 1971 | The Onedin Line (TV Series) |
| 1970 | Play for Today (TV Series) |
| 1970 | |
| 1969 | Paul Temple (TV Series) |
| 1969 | Special Branch (TV Series) |
| 1968 | |
| 1968 | |
| 1967 | |
| 1966 | Breaking Point (TV Series) |
| 1965 | |
| 1965 | Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) |
| 1965 | Out of the Unknown (TV Series) |
| 1965 | |
| 1965 | The Troubleshooters (TV Series) |
| 1965 | |
| 1965 | |
| 1965 | Public Eye (TV Series) |
| 1964 | |
| 1963 | Doctor Who (TV Series) |
| 1962 | Z Cars (TV Series) |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre (TV Series) |