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Sterling Campbell is a Actor, Director and Military Consultant born on 1 january 1896
Sterling Carl Campbell (1896/97 - September 6, 1990) was a Canadian aviator and film director best known for the 1947 film Bush Pilot, one of the first narrative feature films ever produced by a Canadian film production company.
Campbell served in the Royal Canadian Army during World War I. He later worked in Hollywood, California as a technical and action assistant director, including the films Wings, Dawn Patrol, Hell's Angels, Air Circus, Legion of the Condemned, Forced Landing and Ceiling Zero, and as an assistant to Cecil B. DeMille and Howard Hawks. He also had minor acting roles in the films Forced Landing, Hands Across the Table, Professional Soldier and Love Is News.
He subsequently returned to Canada, where he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He married Margaret Campbell, later a Toronto City Councillor and Member of Provincial Parliament, in 1941.
With Geoffrey Wood, Larry Cromien and Austin Willis, Campbell launched Dominion Productions in 1946. Bush Pilot was the company's first film. Due to poorer than expected revenues, however, the company never released another film under their management, and was subsequently acquired by Arthur Gotlieb.
Campbell ran for a Toronto City Council seat in the 1956 municipal election, but fell while campaigning, exacerbating an old war injury and remaining bedridden for several months; despite having effectively dropped his campaign, he finished third behind the winners, William Dennison and May Birchard, and ahead of incumbent councillor Edgar Roxborough. In the subsequent 1958 municipal election, Margaret Campbell ran for council instead, winning the seat and beginning her own long career in politics.
His son Sterling Campbell, Jr. was a city councillor and Member of Provincial Parliament in Sudbury in the 1970s and 1980s.
He died on September 6, 1990 in Toronto.
(1930)
(Aerial Coordinator)
(1930)
(Military Consultant)
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Birth name Sterling Carl Campbell
Birth 1 january 1896
Death 6 september 1990 (at 94 years)
Birth 1 january 1896
Death 6 september 1990 (at 94 years)
Campbell served in the Royal Canadian Army during World War I. He later worked in Hollywood, California as a technical and action assistant director, including the films Wings, Dawn Patrol, Hell's Angels, Air Circus, Legion of the Condemned, Forced Landing and Ceiling Zero, and as an assistant to Cecil B. DeMille and Howard Hawks. He also had minor acting roles in the films Forced Landing, Hands Across the Table, Professional Soldier and Love Is News.
He subsequently returned to Canada, where he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He married Margaret Campbell, later a Toronto City Councillor and Member of Provincial Parliament, in 1941.
With Geoffrey Wood, Larry Cromien and Austin Willis, Campbell launched Dominion Productions in 1946. Bush Pilot was the company's first film. Due to poorer than expected revenues, however, the company never released another film under their management, and was subsequently acquired by Arthur Gotlieb.
Campbell ran for a Toronto City Council seat in the 1956 municipal election, but fell while campaigning, exacerbating an old war injury and remaining bedridden for several months; despite having effectively dropped his campaign, he finished third behind the winners, William Dennison and May Birchard, and ahead of incumbent councillor Edgar Roxborough. In the subsequent 1958 municipal election, Margaret Campbell ran for council instead, winning the seat and beginning her own long career in politics.
His son Sterling Campbell, Jr. was a city councillor and Member of Provincial Parliament in Sudbury in the 1970s and 1980s.
He died on September 6, 1990 in Toronto.
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(1930)(Aerial Coordinator)
(1930)(Military Consultant)
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Love Is News (1937)
, 1h12Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Slim Summerville, Walter Catlett, Jane Darwell
Roles Reporter (uncredited)
Rating68%
Stephen "Steve" Leyton (Tyrone Power) is a prying newspaper reporter who works for Martin Canavan (Don Ameche), and he goes after the rich heiress, Tony Gateson (Loretta Young), to get an exclusive story with her. Annoyed with the articles he has published, and the way Steve has labelled her a "Tin Can Countess", Tony turns on him and announces to the press that they are engaged to each other. All this time, she has an actual fiance, Count Andre de Guyon (George Sanders).
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Bush Pilot (1947)
, 1hDirected by Sterling Campbell
Origin Canada
Genres Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Rochelle Hudson, Jack La Rue, Frank Perry, Robert Christie, Eric Clavering
Rating52%
Red North is a bush pilot in the village of Nouvelle, part of Canada's north. His half-brother, Paul Gerard decides to relocate his bush pilot business to the same lake, competing with Red's business and romantic interests.
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, 2h32Directed by Lewis Milestone, Nate Watt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Louis Wolheim, Richard Alexander, Lew Ayres, John Wray, William Bakewell, Ben Alexander
Roles Military Consultant
Rating80%
Professor Kantorek gives an impassioned speech about the glory of serving in the Army and "saving the Fatherland". On the brink of becoming men, the boys in his class, led by Paul Baumer, are moved to join the army as the new 2nd Company. Their romantic delusions are quickly broken during their brief but rigorous training under the abusive Corporal Himmelstoss, who bluntly informs them, "You're going to be soldiers—and that's all."
Hell's Angels (1930)
, 2h7Directed by James Whale, Howard Hughes, Jr., Edmund Goulding, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon, James Hall, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Jane Winton
Roles Aerial Coordinator
Rating72%
Roy (James Hall) and Monte Rutledge (Ben Lyon) are very different British brothers. Strait-laced Roy loves and idealizes the apparently demure Helen (Jean Harlow). Monte, on the other hand, is a womanizer. Their German friend and fellow Oxford student Karl (John Darrow) is against the idea of having to fight England when World War I breaks out.