Wissenswertes

Journalist and writer turned television personality. Had a very bad stutter which became his trademark.

Was the third Baron Glenavy.

His father was James Henry Mussen Campbell, a lawyer who was Ireland's Solicitor General, Attorney General, Lord Chief Justice, and Lord Chancellor before becoming the first chairman of the Senate of the Irish Free State.

In his autobiography (and several interviews), he claimed he "could never quite get the hang of writing scripts"; nonetheless, he wrote ten films and a great deal of television (often in collaboration with his third wife, Vivienne Knight).