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Canadian actor (1922–2009) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Douglas Campbell, CM (11 June 1922 – 6 October 2009) was a Canadian-based stage actor. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
Campbell's interest in the theatre began at London's Old Vic Theatre at age 17, where working as a stage hand he saw Tyrone Guthrie's production of King John. He first performed in the 1941 Old Vic touring productions of Medea and Jacob's Ladder.[1][2]
He was invited to Canada in 1953 by Guthrie, who had just been appointed the first artistic director of the fledgling Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario. Campbell played Hastings in the opening production of Richard III in 1953, and King Oedipus in the stage and screen production of Oedipus Rex in 1954. He appeared many times at Stratford in the fifty years that followed, drawing great acclaim in the role of Othello in 1959, and in many appearances as Falstaff.[3][4]
Campbell founded the Canadian Players in 1954, and was artistic director at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis from 1966 to 1967. He was awarded the Order of Canada on 17 April 1997. Campbell received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, in 2003.[5]
In 1947, Campbell married Ann Casson, actress and daughter of Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike.[6] His children from that marriage are Dirk Campbell, television director; Teresa Padden who played Cordelia to his first King Lear, Tom Campbell, painter; Benedict Campbell, actor. In the late 1960s, Campbell developed a relationship with Moira Wylie, an actress and director, with whom his children Beatrice and Torquil Campbell were born. Beatrice Campbell is a stage manager at the Shaw Festival while Torquil Campbell is an actor and lead singer/songwriter of the indie rock band Stars. Casson, whom Campbell never divorced, died in 1990. He and Wylie married in 1993.[6] Campbell was a pacificist and vegetarian.[7]
Campbell died at Hôtel Dieu hospital in Montreal, Quebec from complications of diabetes and congestive heart disease on 6 October 2009.[1][8]
| Film | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1957 | Oedipus Rex | Oedipus | |
| 1965 | When Tomorrow Dies | Doug James | |
| 1972 | A Fan's Notes | Paddy the Duke | |
| 1979 | Lost and Found | British Professor | |
| 1980 | Double Negative | Crichett, Sr. | |
| Nothing Personal | The Walker | ||
| 1982 | If You Could See What I Hear | Porky Sullivan | |
| 1983 | Strange Brew | Henry Green | |
| Snow | Nick | Short film | |
| 1985 | Perfect | Party Pro | Credited as Doug Campbell |
| 1990 | I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle | Mr. Bancroft | |
| 2000 | Once Upon a Christmas | Santa Claus | Final film role |
| Television | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1953 | Sunday Night Theatre | The Stranger | Season 4, episode 19: "The Lady from the Sea" |
| 1955 | Omnibus | Season 3, episode 16: "Hamlet" | |
| On Camera | Season 1, episode 23: "The Queen's Ring" | ||
| Scope | Colonel Thomas Talbot | Season 1, episode 19: "The Colonel and the Lady" | |
| First Performance | Colonel Thomas Talbot | Season 1, episode 1: "The Colonel and the Lady" | |
| 1955-1959 | General Motors Theatre | Cal / O'Brien / Claggart / Terrence | 4 episodes |
| 1957-1960 | DuPont Show of the Month | Squire Trelawny / Danglars / King Henry VIII / Various | 4 episodes |
| 1958 | Suspicion | Armstrong | Episode 27: "The Girl Upstairs" |
| 1958-1959 | Folio | Sean Kelly | 2 episodes |
| 1959 | Day of Decision | Narrator | Miniseries |
| The Unforeseen | 2 episodes | ||
| 1959-1960 | Startime | W.S. Gilbert | 3 episodes |
| 1960-1962 | Festival | Don Alhambra del Bolero, the Grand Inquisitor / W.S. Gilbert / Dunlavin / Bill Bobstay, Boatswain's mate |
4 episodes |
| 1962 | John Brown's Body | John Brown | TV movie |
| 1964 | The Defenders | Ed Clark | Season 3, episode 20: "The Pill Man" |
| Twelfth Night | Sir Toby Belch | TV movie | |
| 1965 | Profiles in Courage | John Quincy Adams | Episode 22: "John Quincy Adams" |
| 1975 | Performance | Sir George Simpson | Episode 5: "The Man in the Tin Canoe" |
| 1976 | Bill Brand | Reg Starr | Miniseries |
| 1979–1982 | The Great Detective | Inspector Alistair Cameron | 35 episodes |
| 1981 | You've Come a Long Way, Katie | Miniseries 3 episodes | |
| 1984 | Sam Hughes's War | TV movie | |
| Charlie Grant's War | Manlus | TV movie | |
| 1985 | The Edison Twins | Harry | Season 3, episode 4: "Monkey in the Middle" |
| 1986 | The Boys from Syracuse | Prologue | Uncredited |
| 1986-1990 | The Campbells | Justice Harris | 2 episodes - 1 uncredited |
| 1988 | Adderly | Marty | Season 2, episode 20: "The Interrogation" |
| 1991 | Mark Twain and Me | TV movie | |
| 1998 | Due South | Capt. Ed Smithers | 2 episodes |
| 2000 | Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story | Dr. Powell | Miniseries 2 episodes Final TV role |
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