Don Chaffey
Don Chaffey (* August 5, 1917 in Hastings, East Sussex, England; † 13 November 1990, for Kawau Iceland, New Zealand ) was a British film director.
Life
Chaffey began his career in 1945 as an assistant art director at The Last Fall, a drama starring Rex Harrison and Lili Palmer in the lead roles. After several films as an art director, he led in the 1951 classic children's film receptacle 63 is missing! debut as a director. From the mid- 1950s he also worked for British television and led, among other things, directed television adaptations of Robin Hood and Charlie Chan. In the 1960s, he made several fantasy films, including the incurred with visual effects specialist Ray Harryhausen Jason and the Argonauts and One Million Years BC.
With Patrick McGoohan in the lead role was the 1954 Disney production The Three Lives of Thomasina. With McGoohan he turned after 14 episodes of its series secret mission for John Drake, as well as four episodes of the cult series number 6 Chaffeys in the tradition of the spaghetti westerns turned Western sub- lethal sun in 1974 nominated at the International Berlin Film Festival for the Golden Bear. In 1977 he led at Pete's Dragon a second time the government at a Disney production, as a result, he worked exclusively in the USA. After his last feature film Robodog, which was based on an idea by Joseph Barbera, he worked as an episode director for several successful U.S. series formats such as MacGyver and Airwolf.