Douglas Camfield Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Douglas Gaston Sydney Camfield (8 May 1931 – 27 January 1984) was an accomplished director for television from the 1960s to the 1980s. He studied at York School of Art and aimed to work for Walt Disney. He was a Lieutenant in the West Yorkshire Regiment, and was training to be in the SAS (but due to an injury he pulled out of the application process). His programme credits include Doctor Who, Z-Cars, Paul Temple, Van der Valk, The Sweeney, Shoestring, The Professionals, Out of the Unknown, The Nightmare Man, the BBC dramatisation of Beau Geste, and Ivanhoe, the 1982 television movie. Camfield was known for his strict professionalism but was well liked personally by many actors, producers, and writers.
In an interview on the DVD of the Doctor Who (1963) story "Inferno", Terrance Dicks recalls a conversation in which Camfield lamented the fact that he wanted to make more artistic work like Antonioni (Michelangelo Antonioni) or Godard (Jean-Luc Godard), but that people tended to think of him as Don Siegel. Dicks responded that "There's nothing wrong with being Don Siegel!".
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Declined the offer to become producer of Doctor Who (1963) in 1969, after the departure of Derrick Sherwin.
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Suffered from a heart ailment for many years.
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Became ill during the recording of the Doctor Who (1963) serial "Inferno", and the remaining studio scenes were directed by the series' producer, Barry Letts, but he was still credited for these scenes.
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The eight-part Doctor Who (1963) serial The Invasion, which he directed in 1968, became the most expensive Dr Who serial up to that time.
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Served as a Second Lieutenant in the British Army.
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