Douglas Gaston Sydney Camfield was a British television director, active from the 1960s to the 1980s.
11 Facts About Douglas Camfield
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Douglas Camfield was commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps in 1951 during his national service.
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Douglas Camfield 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.
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Douglas Camfield's 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.
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Douglas Camfield is particularly well known for his work on Doctor Who and was production assistant on its earliest serials, both the pilot and broadcast versions of An Unearthly Child, and Marco Polo.
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Douglas Camfield directed many other stories in its first thirteen years:.
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Shortly after directing The Seeds of Doom, Douglas Camfield was commissioned by Philip Hinchcliffe to write a four part serial for Doctor Who in 1976.
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Douglas Camfield was one of eight faces whose images are seen during the mind-bending sequence of the serial The Brain of Morbius, inferred to be early incarnations of the Doctor.
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Douglas Camfield died of a heart attack on 27 January 1984.
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Douglas Camfield was married to actress Sheila Dunn, whom he cast in the Doctor Who stories The Daleks' Master Plan, The Invasion, and Inferno.
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Douglas Camfield appears as a character in the drama An Adventure in Space and Time, portrayed by actor Sam Hoare.