Richard Meckiff Campion ONZM (13 December 1923 – 2 July 2013) was a New Zealand actor, theatre director, and producer.
He studied at Victoria University College, where he met his future wife and trained as a secondary school teacher.
[13] Campion married heiress Edith Hannah in December 1945 at Wellington's Anglican pro-cathedral when they were both 22 and still attending university.
[5] Their marriage came apart and Campion remarried Judith Phipson then headmistress of noted girls' boarding school, Woodford House.
Downstage (in the Hannah Playhouse) and Circa theatres and ballet and opera all benefitted hugely from his life's work.