CAMPTON, David

CAMPTON, David. British, b. 1924. Genres: Children's fiction, Plays/Screenplays. Career: Clerk, City of Leicester Education Dept., 1941-49, and East Midlands Gas Board, Leicester, 1949-56; actor, director, 1959-. Publications: Going Home, 1951: Honeymoon Express, 1951; Change Partners, 1951; Sunshine on thc Righteous, 1952; The Laboratory, 1955; The Cactus Garden, 1955: Doctor Alexander, 1956: Cuckoo Song, 1956; The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Mcnace, 1960; Roses Round the Door, 1958; Frankenstein: The Gift of Fire, 1959; Little Brother, Little Sister, 1960; Four Minute Warning, 1960; Funeral Dance, 1960: Passport to Florence, 1961; Silence on the Battlefield, 1961; Usher, 1962; Incident, 1962; On Stage: Containing Seventeen Sketches and One Monologue, 1964; Resting Place, 1964; The Manipulator, 1964; Split Down the Middle, 1965; Little Brother, Little Sister and Out of the Flying Pan, 1966; Two Leaves and a Stalk, 1967; Angel Unwilling, 1967; More Sketches, 1967; Ladies Night: Four Plays for Women. 1967; The Right Place, 1969; Laughter and Fear: 9 One-Act Plays, 1969; On Stage Again: Containing Fourteen Sketches and Two Monologues, 1969; The Life and Death of Almost Everybody, 1970; Now and Then, 1970; Timesneeze, 1970; Gulliver in Lilliput (reader), 1970; Gulliver in the Land of the Giants (reader), 1970: The Wooden Horse of Troy (reader), 1970; Jonah, 1971; The Cagebirds, 1971; Us and Them, 1972; Carmilla, 1972; Come Back Tomorrow, 1972; In Committee, 1972; Three Gothic Plays, 1973; Modern Aesop (reader), 1976; One Possessed, 1977; The Do-It-Yourself Frankenstein Outfit, 1978; What Are You Doing Here?, 1978; Zodiac, 1978; After Midnight: Before Dawn, 1978; Parcel, 1979; Everybody's Friend, 1979; Pieces of Campton, 1979; Who Calls?, 1980; Attitudes, 1980; Freedom Log, 1980; Dark Wings, 1981; Look-Sea, 1981; Great Whales, 1981; Who's a Hero?, 1981; But Not Here, 1984; Dead and Alive, 1983; Mrs. Meadowsweet, 1986; Singing in the Wilderness, 1986; Our Branch in Brussels, 1986; Cards, Cups and Crystal Ball, 1986; The Vampyre (children's book), 1986; Can You Hear the Music?, 1989; The Winter of 1917, 1989; Smile, 1990; Becoming a Playwright, 1992; Who's Been Sitting in My Chair?, 1992; Eskimos & Provisioning, 1993; The Evergreens, 1994; Permission to Cry, 1996. Address: 35 Liberty Rd, Glenfield, Leicester LE3 8JF, England.