Douglas Camfield

Known for DirectingBorn 1931-05-08Died 1984-01-27England, 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-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.Read more

Movies & web series

Number on End

Detective

Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom

Doctor Who: The Invasion

Missing from Home

Doctor Who: Inferno

Sutherland's Law

Remembering Douglas Camfield

Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius

Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons

Public Eye

Danger UXB

The Sweeney

The Last Lonely Man

Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan

Doctor Who

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear

The Professionals

The Lotus Eaters

Shoestring

Blake's 7

Doctor Who: The Time Meddler

Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child

Paul Temple

Z-Cars

Doctor Who: Marco Polo

Beau Geste

Out of the Unknown

Target

The Venturers

Doctor Who: Planet of Giants

The Nightmare Man

The Nightmare Man

Ivanhoe

Doctor Who: The Chase

Van der Valk

Tales of the Tardis

Doctor Who: The Crusade

Armchair Theatre

Special Branch

Blake's 7: Duel

The Walls of Jericho

Accident

The Golden Road

Breaking Point