Don Chaffey

Donald Chaffey 5 August 1917 13 November 1990 was a British film director writer producer and art director Chaffeys film career began as an art director in 1947 and his directorial debut was in 1953 He remained active in the industry until his death in 1990 from heart failure His film Charley OneEye 1973 was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival He is chiefly remembered for his fantasy films which include Jason and the Argonauts 1963 The Three Lives of Thomasina 1963 One Million Years BC 1966 The Viking Queen 1967 Creatures the World Forgot 1971 Petes Dragon 1977 and CHOMPS 1979 his final feature film Concurrent with his theatrically released films Chaffey directed episodes of numerous British television series including multiple installments of Danger Man The Prisoner and The Avengers From the 1980s until his death all of his work was in American madeforTV movies and in such TV series as Fantasy Island Stingray MacGyver Vega T J Hooker Matt Houston and Charlies Angels Chaffey began his career in the art department of Gainsborough Pictures where he worked as a draftsman on Madonna of the Seven Moons 1945 The Rakes Progress 1945 and Caravan 1946 He was art director of The Adventures of Dusty Bates 1947 and The Little Ballerina 1948 He directed the documentary shorts Thames Tideway 1948 and Cape Cargoes 1948 Chaffey directed the short features The Mysterious Poacher 1950 and The Case of the Missing Scene 1950 He returned to the art department for King of the Underworld 1950 The Stolen Plans 1952 Murder at the Grange 1952 Murder at Scotland Yard 1952 and Black 13 1953 Chaffey resumed his directing career with the family film Skid Kids 1953 He made the short Watch Out 1953 then did Strange Stories 1953 Bouncer Breaks Up 1953 a short The Mask 1952 and A Good Pull Up 1953 Chaffey directed Time Is My Enemy 1954 After the short Dead on Time 1955 he made The Secret Tent 1956 The Flesh Is Weak 1957 and The Girl in the Picture 1957 He directed episodes of TV series like Theatre Royal The Adventures of the Big Man Chevron Hall of Stars The Errol Flynn Theatre Assignment Foreign Legion The Adventures of Robin Hood Dial 999 and The New Adventures of Charlie Chan He interspersed these with features like A Question of Adultery 1958 The Man Upstairs 1958 Danger Within 1959 Dentist in the Chair 1960 Lies My Father Told Me 1960 and Nearly a Nasty Accident 1961