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Years active
  
1982—

Children
  
Akua Campanella

Parents
  
Roy Campanella


Role
  
Television Director

Name
  
Roy II

Awards
  
DGA Drama Show Day Award

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Full Name
  
Roy Campanella, Jr.

Born
  
June 20, 1948 (age 75) (
1948-06-20
)

Occupation
  
Spouse
  
Annette Labayen (m. 1982–1982)

Movies
  
Brother Future, The Company We Keep, Playing with Fire, Rendezvous

Similar People
  
Roy Campanella, Henry G Sanders, Stephen James Taylor, Phill Lewis, Summer Simmons

Roy Campanella II (born June 20, 1948) is a television director and producer.

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Biography

Born Roy Campanella II, he is the son of professional baseball great Roy Campanella. After directing some short films, the younger Campanella began directing episodic television. One of his first professional assignments was directing an episode of the Lou Grant television series in 1982. Within a few years he was also directing longer form television projects. He was also listed as a "creative consultant" in the credits of the sitcom "227."

By the late 1990s, he was also producing. He entered into an arrangement with Black Entertainment Television (BET) to executive produce a series of feature-length adaptations of black romance novels (three of which he also directed).

In 2004, Campanella was named general manager of Pacifica radio station, KPFA in Berkeley, California. Campanella resigned fourteen months later in the wake of reports that KPFA's 24-member Local Station Board (LSB) voted to terminate his employment. Tomas Moran, a former board member and KPFA supporter speculated that Campanella was forced to resign because he rankled a fiercely entrenched bureaucracy that could not agree on the direction of the station. The previous general manager, former Berkeley Mayor Gus Newport served less than a year before he stepped down citing personal reasons.

Awards and recognition

  • 1992: DGA Award nomination
  • 1991: DGA Award
  • References

    Roy Campanella II Wikipedia