Robert Burchfield was born on January 27, 1923 in Wanganui, New Zealand. He is known for The Levin Interviews (1980), Call My Bluff (1965) and The Story of English (1986). He was married to Elizabeth Austen Knight and Ethel May Yates. He died on July 5, 2004 in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England.