Ivar Campbell
Ivar Campbell (8 September 1904 – 19 May 1985) was a New Zealand-British screenwriter and film director.
Also recorded as Donald Robert Ivar Campbell
Ivar Campbell
- Name
- Ivar Campbell
- Born
- 8 September 1904
- Birthplace
- Ōtaki, New Zealand
- Died
- 19 May 1985 (aged 80)
- Place of death
- Tiverton, Devon
- Birth Name
- Donald Robert Ivar Campbell
- Occupation
- Film director Screenwriter
- Nationality
- New Zealand
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Ivar Campbell (8 September 1904 – 19 May 1985) was a New Zealand-British screenwriter and film director.
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• Name — Ivar Campbell • Born — 8 September 1904 • Birthplace — Ōtaki, New Zealand • Died — 19 May 1985 (aged 80) • Place of death — Tiverton, Devon • Birth Name — Donald Robert Ivar Campbell • Occupation — Film director Screenwriter • Years Active — 1932–1938 Donald Robert Ivar Campbell (8 September 1904 – 19 May 1985) was a New Zealand-British screenwriter and film director.
Personal life
Personal life
Campbell was born in New Zealand in 1904 to Lt-Col Robert Ormus Campbell and Beatrice (née Cadell).. He married Sheila Milligan on 14 July 1934 at Littleton Church, near Shepperton. In 1939, he was a farmer in Devon, living with his wife, a film scenario writer, and widowed mother, Beatrice. In 1951, he was living at the infamous Knowstone Manor in Devon, a swastika-shaped farmhouse built in 1938 by a German fascist. In 1960, Campbell and his wife purchased Tiverton Castle in Devon which was inherited by his nephew, Angus, in 1985. Sheila Campbell is credited as a writer on Belles of St Clements, Feather Your Nest and Expert Opinion.
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• Reunion (1932) • Song of the Plough (1933) • The Wishbone (1933) • Paris Plane (1933) • Doss House (1933) • She Was Only a Village Maiden (1933) • The Diplomatic Lover (1934) • Bypass to Happiness (1934) • Designing Women (1934) • The Mad Hatters (1935) • Expert's Opinion (1935) • The Belles of St. Clements (1936) • Grand Finale (1936) • Feather Your Nest (1937) • Captain's Orders (1937) • Too Many Husbands (1938)
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