Douglas Camfield

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Doctor Who (1963) — Director
2. Ivanhoe (1982) — Director
3. Blake's 7 (1978) — Director
4. The Professionals (1977) — Director
5. The Sweeney (1975) — Director
6. Doctor Who: The Invasion (1968) — Director
7. Van der Valk (1972) — Director
8. Play for Today (1970) — Director
9. Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons (1975) — Director
10. Doctor Who: The Time Meddler (1965) — Director
11. Doctor Who: Planet of Giants (1964) — Director
12. Doctor Who: The Chase (1965) — Director
13. Out of the Unknown (1965) — Director
14. Danger UXB (1979) — Director
15. Tales of the Tardis (2023) — Director
16. Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) — Director
17. Doctor Who: The Crusade (1965) — Director
18. Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan (1965) — Director
19. Doctor Who: The Web of Fear (1968) — Director
20. Z-Cars (1962) — Director
21. The Onedin Line (1971) — Director
22. Shoestring (1979) — Director
23. Public Eye (1965) — Director
24. Armchair Theatre (1956) — Director
25. Doctor Who: Inferno (1970) — Director
26. Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom (1976) — Director
27. Special Branch (1969) — Director
28. Target (1977) — Director
29. Paul Temple (1969) — Director
30. The Man Outside (1972) — Director
31. The Nightmare Man (1981) — Director
32. The Troubleshooters (1965) — Director
33. The Lotus Eaters (1972) — Director
34. Sutherland's Law (1973) — Director
35. Beau Geste (1982) — Director
36. The Nightmare Man (1981) — Director
37. Missing from Home (1984) — Director
38. The Last Lonely Man (1969) — Director
39. Number on End (1980) — Director
40. Detective (1964) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius (1976) — Morbius Doctor (picture) (uncredited)
2. Remembering Douglas Camfield (2013) — (archive footage)