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| - Douglas Camfield (1931 - 1984) war ein britischer Regisseur. Bei folgende Doctor Who-Episoden führte er Regie:
* Planet of Giants
* The Crusade
* The Time Meddler
* The Daleks' Master Plan
* The Web of Fear
* The Invasion
* Inferno (zusammen mit Barry Letts)
* Terror of the Zygons
* The Seeds of Doom
- Camfield was Waris Hussein's protege. After Hussein turned down a staff director job to move on to more prestigious work, Camfield took the position. He directed a number of stories with the first two Doctors, most of which are partially or completely missing. Since it's impossible to objectively list his stories in chronological order due to the complexities of time travel, they will instead be ordered from best to worst:
* Inferno
* The Invasion
* The Seeds of Doom
* The Daleks' Master Plan
* The Crusade
* The Time Meddler
* The Web of Fear
* Terror of the Zygons
- He was a production assistant on several early Doctor Who serials, including An Unearthly Child and Marco Polo. His earliest directorial effort for the programme was on 9 October 1963, when he directed some 16mm film inserts for "The Cave of Skulls", "The Forest of Fear" and "The Firemaker". (REF: The First Doctor Handbook). His first directorial credit was on the episode "Crisis". He directed several other serials, including: It is reported that he declined the offer to become producer of Doctor Who in 1969, after the departure of Derrick Sherwin. The job instead went to Barry Letts.
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| - Douglas Camfield (1931 - 1984) war ein britischer Regisseur. Bei folgende Doctor Who-Episoden führte er Regie:
* Planet of Giants
* The Crusade
* The Time Meddler
* The Daleks' Master Plan
* The Web of Fear
* The Invasion
* Inferno (zusammen mit Barry Letts)
* Terror of the Zygons
* The Seeds of Doom
- He was a production assistant on several early Doctor Who serials, including An Unearthly Child and Marco Polo. His earliest directorial effort for the programme was on 9 October 1963, when he directed some 16mm film inserts for "The Cave of Skulls", "The Forest of Fear" and "The Firemaker". (REF: The First Doctor Handbook). His first directorial credit was on the episode "Crisis". He directed several other serials, including:
* The Crusade
* The Time Meddler — whose location filming actually included Ian and Barbara's return to London in the final episode of The Chase, "The Planet of Decision". Therefore he was either, as William Russell claims, the actual stills photographer for the montage at the end of "The Planet of Decision" (DCOM: "The Planet of Decision") or the director of a now-unknown BBC still photographer, according to David J Howe and friends. (REF: The First Doctor Handbook) The two sources agree he was present throughout the still session, even if they disagree about who actually opened the shutter.
* The Daleks' Master Plan
* The Web of Fear
* The Invasion
* Inferno — for which he directed all the location film work; he became ill with a heart condition during the recording of the studio scenes. The remainder were directed by producer Barry Letts, though Camfield was given sole credit. (DCOM: Inferno)
* Terror of the Zygons
* The Seeds of Doom It is reported that he declined the offer to become producer of Doctor Who in 1969, after the departure of Derrick Sherwin. The job instead went to Barry Letts. As a director, he was known for his meticulous planning and military style. (DOC: Podshock) An in-joke reference to Camfield was featured in The Web of Fear episode three where the wrapper of a chocolate bar that Driver Evans takes from a platform vending machine is seen to read “Camfield's Fairy Milk Chocolate”. (Although the episode itself is still missing from the BBC archives, the in-joke is fortunately immortalised in John Cura's tele-snaps.) Camfield later made a "Hitchcock" appearance in The Invasion episode one, in which he played the car driver who gives the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe a lift into London. Unfortunately, this episode is currently missing from the BBC archives and no tele-snaps exist, so there is no visual record as to what the scene would have looked like on-screen. He appeared, alongside writers Robert Banks Stewart, Robert Holmes, Terrance Dicks, producer Philip Hinchcliffe and director Christopher Barry, as one of the "earlier" regenerations of the Doctor or Morbius in the (in)famous mind-bending contest sequence in The Brain of Morbius in 1976. Camfield later sought to get producer Philip Hinchcliffe to commission his script for the programme. This involved aliens and the French Foreign Legion and would have killed off the character of Sarah Jane Smith. (DOC: Changing Time) However, this story was not produced and Sarah left the programme quite alive in The Hand of Fear. Douglas Camfield had served as an officer in the British Army. He was married to the actress Sheila Dunn, whom he cast in Inferno as Dr Petra Williams. According to Ian Fairbairn in the DVD documentary Podshock, some time after directing The Seeds of Doom, Dunn demanded that Camfield stop directing Doctor Who, as she felt it placed him under too much strain. The couple were near Ely Cathedral at the time of the conversation, and so Camfield went into the cathedral and swore on the high altar that he would not do another Doctor Who story — an oath which he kept. Camfield suffered from a heart ailment, and died of heart failure in his sleep on 27 January 1984 at age 52. He was one of only three people (along with Christopher Barry and Lennie Mayne) to direct Doctor Who serials featuring William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker. In 1990, Douglas Camfield - A Tribute a special magazine, compiled and edited by Doctor Who Magazine writer Philip Newman , was published as a special edition of the Doctor Who fan magazine The Frame, produced by David J Howe, Stephen James Walker & Mark Stammers. It featured wide-ranging tributes from many of Douglas' friends, colleagues and fellow artists alongside an interview with his widow Sheila.
- Camfield was Waris Hussein's protege. After Hussein turned down a staff director job to move on to more prestigious work, Camfield took the position. He directed a number of stories with the first two Doctors, most of which are partially or completely missing. When Derrick Sherwin left the show in 1969, Camfield was offered the job of replacing him as producer. But a showruiner can only ruin one show, while a staff director can contribute to ruining many, so he turned it down to also work on shows like Z-Cars and The Sweeney, creating far more tapes for the BBC to wipe than if he'd taken the full-time Doctor Who job. Since it's impossible to objectively list his stories in chronological order due to the complexities of time travel, they will instead be ordered from best to worst:
* Inferno
* The Invasion
* The Seeds of Doom
* The Daleks' Master Plan
* The Crusade
* The Time Meddler
* The Web of Fear
* Terror of the Zygons As you can see, even his worst stories were pretty good. But he did direct part of the The Chase. Camfield wanted to be a writer as well as director, and pitched a few ideas to the producers over the years. All of them involved killing off the current female companion. All of his pitches were rejected, but perhaps they gave future writers an idea of what to do when the show had Adric instead of Jo Grant or Sarah Jane Smith. Much as his later incarnation would play actor Tom Baker playing The Curator in The Day of the Doctor, the Negative Third Doctor once played an unknown and uncredited actor playing The Driver in The Invasion.
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