Ivar Campbell


Donald Robert Ivar Campbell was a New Zealand-British screenwriter and film director.

Personal life

Campbell was born in New Zealand in 1904 to Lt-Col Robert Ormus Campbell and Beatrice.
. 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 1950 he appears to own a fishing boat.
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

Reunion Song of the Plough The Wishbone Paris Plane Doss House She Was Only a Village Maiden The Diplomatic Lover Bypass to Happiness Designing Women The Mad Hatters Expert's Opinion The Belles of St. Clements Grand Finale Feather Your Nest Captain's Orders