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Douglas Camfield
England, UK
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-C…
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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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2023
Tales of the Tardis
TV show Director
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2013
Remembering Douglas Camfield
Movie (archive footage)
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1986
Blake's 7: Duel
Movie Director
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1984
Missing from Home
TV show Director
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1982
Beau Geste
TV show Director
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1982
Ivanhoe
Movie Director
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1981
The Nightmare Man
TV show Director
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1981
The Nightmare Man
Movie Director
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1981
The Walls of Jericho
TV show Director
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1980
Company and Co
TV show Director
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1980
Number on End
Movie Director
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1979
Shoestring
TV show Director
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1979
Danger UXB
TV show Director
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1978
Accident
TV show Director
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1978
Blake's 7
TV show Director
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1977
The Professionals
TV show Director
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1977
Target
TV show Director
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1976
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
Movie Director
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1976
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
Movie Morbius Doctor (picture) (uncredited)
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1975
Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
Movie Director
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1975
The Venturers
TV show Director
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1975
The Sweeney
TV show Director
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1973
The Golden Road
Movie Director
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1973
Sutherland's Law
TV show Director
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1972
Van der Valk
TV show Director
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1972
The Man Outside
TV show Director
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1972
The Lotus Eaters
TV show Director
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1971
The Onedin Line
TV show Director
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1971
Trial
TV show Director
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1970
Play for Today
TV show Director
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1970
Doctor Who: Inferno
Movie Director
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1969
Paul Temple
TV show Director
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1969
Special Branch
TV show Director
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1969
The Last Lonely Man
Movie Director
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1968
Doctor Who: The Invasion
Movie Director
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1968
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
Movie Director
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1966
Breaking Point
TV show Director
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1966
Watch the Birdies
TV show Director
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1965
Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan
Movie Director
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1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV show Director
