Donald "Don" Chaffey was a British film director, writer, producer, and art director. He is chiefly remembered for his fantasy films, which included Jason and the Argonauts (1963), One Million Years B.C. (1966), The Viking Queen (1967), Creatures the World Forgot (1971), and C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979), his final feature film.
For Disney, he directed the 1963 film The Three Lives of Thomasina and the 1977 film Pete's Dragon.
Career[]
Chaffey began his career in the art department of Gainsborough Productions, where he worked as a draftsman on Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945), The Rake's Progress (1945), and Caravan (1946). As an art director of The Adventures of Dusty Bates (1947) and The Little Ballerina (1948), he also directed the documentary shorts Thames Tideway (1948) and Cape Cargoes (1948).
After directing 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).
