Trivia

After Zohra Sehgal and Olaf Pooley, he is the third Docteur Who (1963) cast member to reach the age of 100. As of November 2019, he is also the longest-lived cast member, surpassing Sehgal.

Following the death of Olaf Pooley on July 14, 2015, he became the oldest surviving Docteur Who (1963) cast member. He played Glyn Williams in The Tenth Planet: Episode 1 (1966) and The Tenth Planet: Episode 2 (1966). After his death on July 3, 2020, this title passed on to Arnold Yarrow.

He was made CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 2009 Queen's New Years Honours List for services to drama.

He hadn't intended to be an actor but during the war he hated his job as a kitchen porter at the Strand Corner House so he took the opportunity to play a walk on part in a West End revival of the musical 'Chu Chin Chow'. From there he was given a small speaking part in 'The Petrified Forest' in 1942. Although untrained he had little difficulty in finding regular acting roles but conscious of his inexperience took speech and singing lessons under Amanda Ira Aldridge, the daughter of Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge. Gaining experience acting in over 70 repertory productions around the country in five years he then made his film debut in 1951 in Les trafiquants du Dunbar (1951).

He arrived in Britain in 1944 (some reports in 1942, considering his first credited speaking stage appearance on London's West End in the 1942 production of 'The Petrified Forest') and within a couple of weeks got a job with the BBC broadcasting to the Caribbean and Africa. No one taught him to sing or act he was a natural and made 1,000's of radio broadcasts and television appearances. One of his first stage roles was in 'Showboat' when he was compared to Paul Robeson.

The Earl Cameron Theatre in Hamilton, Bermuda, was named in his honor in December 2012.

One of two Bermuda-born actors to star in a James Bond film, Cameron appearing first in Opération Tonnerre (1965). The second would be Michael Ebbin who starred in Vivre et laisser mourir (1973).

Was a practitioner of the Baha'i faith.

During a 15-year break from his acting career, Earl moved his family to the South Pacific's Solomon Islands in 1979 where he ran an ice cream shop called "Mr. B-Kool" and helped establish a Baha'i community.

Has eleven grandchildren, twelve great grandchildren, and four great-great grandchildren.

In December 2008, he was based in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England, where he continued to live until his death in 2020.