- While working on The Informer (1935) in Los Angeles, Campbell ordered several black-and-tan uniforms to be rented from a local uniform surplus vendor. Among the authentic uniforms that turned up was a haversack labeled S.C. Campbell, A Company, 18th Batallion. It was the very same item Campbell had work when he was fighting in the Canadian Army in WWI.
- Campbell claimed in an interview in 1972 that he came up with the closing sequence in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).
- Moved to San Diego, California, in 1921, and entered the film industry in 1924 as an extra, earning $7 a day.
- His wife, Margaret Baird Campbell, was a judge and former counter-espionage agent for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- Claimed to have worked on Hell's Angels (1930) as a flying sequences supervisor for only one week; he was fired by Howard Hughes over creative differences.
- He got his break working as a wardrobe assistant for Cecil B. DeMille's production company. DeMille was impressed with his war stories and gave him a job as an assistant director.
- Served in the Canadian Army in World War I as a teenager. He re-enlisted during World War II but was discharged to work on American films for the war effort.
- Military technical advisor on Hollywood films from the late 1920s through the mid 1940s. He also supervised the aerial sequences in such films as Wings (1927), which went on to win best picture.
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