Name
Ken Campbell
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1941-12-10
Deathday
2008-08-31 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
Ilford, Essex, England, UK
Biography
Kenneth Victor Campbell (10 December 1941 – 31 August 2008) was an English writer, actor, director and comedian known for his work in experimental theatre.He has been called "a one-man dynamo of British theatre."
Campbell achieved notoriety in the 1970s for his nine-hour adaptation of the science-fiction trilogy Illuminatus! and his 22-hour staging of Neil Oram's play cycle The Warp. The Guinness Book of Records listed the latter as the longest play in the world. The Independent said that, "In the 1990s, through a series of sprawling monologues packed with arcane information and freakish speculations on the nature of reality, he became something approaching a grand old man of the fringe, though without ever discarding his inner enfant terrible." The Times labelled Campbell a one-man whirlwind of comic and surreal performance. The Guardian, in a posthumous tribute, judged him to be "one of the most original and unclassifiable talents in the British theatre of the past half-century. A genius at producing shows on a shoestring and honing the improvisational capabilities of the actors who were brave enough to work with him." The artistic director of the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse said, "He was the door through which many hundreds of kindred souls entered a madder, braver, brighter, funnier and more complex universe."
Known For
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Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she mee...
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Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for...
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Internationally acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti takes the bereaved puppets of her mento...
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Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire fina...
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- 2000 Saving Grace as Sgt. Alfred Masely
- 2004 Creep as Arthur
- 1985 Letter to Brezhnev as Newspaper Reporter
- 1985 In the Secret State as Hoskins
- 1985 Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain as Samuel Smiles
- 1981 Towers of Babel as Alfie
- 1979 The Secret Policeman's Ball as Various Roles
- 1985 Unfair Exchanges as Tim Rickett
- 1978 Dinner at the Sporting Club as Neville
- 2012 Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice as Self
- 1967 The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick as Thomas Chadwick
- 1967 Poor Cow as Mr. Jacks
- 1985 The Bride as Pedlar
- 1968 Uncle Silas as Crabbe
- 1989 Scandal as Editor of Pictorial
- 1985 The Moon Over Soho as Geoffrey Hargreaves
- 1999 Alice in Wonderland as Mr. Duck
- 1969 The Big Flame as Journalist
- 1979 The Tempest as Gonzalo, an honest councillor
- 1968 Inspector Clouseau as Reporter
- 1976 Justine as Dubourg
- 1980 Breaking Glass as Publican
- 1985 Joshua Then and Now as Sidney Murdoch
- 1985 Dreamchild as Radio Sound Effects Man/March Hare (voice)
- 1985 A Zed & Two Noughts as Stephen Pipe
- 1988 A Fish Called Wanda as Bartlett
- 1990 Wings of Fame as Head Waiter
- 1998 Extraordinary Visitor as Rodney
- 1992 Secret Nation as Parkinson
- 1986 Smart Money as Mr. Sayles
- 1996 Hard Men as Mr Ross
- 1979 The Last Window Cleaner as DC Denis Deacey
- 1971 The Ken Campbell Roadshow as Self
- 1990 Crimestrike as Julius Caesar
- 1976 The Story of Pantomime as Self
- 1979 Phoelix
- 1992 A Different Hand as The Doctor
- 1988 Darkest England
- 2005 Friends Reunited as Zero
- 2004 Ken Campbell's Meaning of Life as Self
- 1984 The Bill ( 2 episodes )
- 1980 The Gentle Touch ( 1 episode )
- 1975 Fawlty Towers ( 1 episode ) as Roger
- 1992 Heartbeat ( 1 episode ) as Hector Plumpton
- 1979 Minder ( 1 episode ) as Seedy Customer
- 1986 Lovejoy ( 1 episode ) as Ted Goat
- 1978 Law & Order ( 4 episodes ) as Alex Gladwell
- 1996 Local Heroes ( 10 episodes )
- 1988 Erasmus Microman ( 14 episodes ) as Erasmus Microman
- 1999 Dooley Gardens ( 6 episodes )
- 1985 Super Gran ( 1 episode ) as Unlucky Luciano
- 1978 An Audience with... ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1995 Reality on the Rocks ( 3 episodes )
- 1999 Six Experiments that Changed the World ( 6 episodes )
- 1994 Middlemarch ( 6 episodes ) as Mr Mawmsey
- 1984 Sherlock Holmes ( 1 episode ) as James Ryder
- 1985 Home to Roost ( 1 episode ) as Mr Prendergast
- 1977 The Professionals ( 1 episode ) as Parker
- 2004 Agatha Christie's Marple ( 1 episode ) as Crump
- 1989 The Nineteenth Hole ( 2 episodes ) as Johnson
- 1985 In Sickness and in Health ( 1 episode ) as The Irate Driver
- 1985 In Sickness and in Health ( 25 episodes ) as Fred Johnson
- 1966 Mystery and Imagination ( 1 episode ) as Crabbe
- 1981 Private Schulz ( 2 episodes ) as Krauss
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Thomas Chadwick
- 1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Tim Rickett
- 1984 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ( 1 episode ) as James Ryder
