Bruce Campbell
Acting • Born 1958-06-22
Biography
Bruce Lorne Campbell (born June 22, 1958) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known best for being Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead horror series, beginning with the short movie Within the Woods (1978). He has also featured in many low-budget cult movies, such as Crimewave (1985), Maniac Cop (1988), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989), and Bubba Ho-Tep (2002). Campbell had the main roles in the television series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993–1994) and Jack of All Trades (2000), and a recurring role as Autolycus, King of Thieves in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995–1999) and Xena: Warrior Princess (1995–1999). He played Sam Axe on the USA Network series Burn Notice (2007–2013) and reprised his role as Ash for the Starz series Ash vs. Evil Dead (2015–2018). He also appeared in The Escort (2015). Campbell directed, produced, and featured in the documentaries Fanalysis (2002) and A Community Speaks (2004); co-wrote, directed, produced, and featured in the movie Man with the Screaming Brain (2005); and directed, produced, and featured in a parody of his career My Name Is Bruce (2007). Campbell is known for frequent collaborations with Raimi, his brother Ted, Josh Becker, and Scott Spiegel. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce Campbell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
163 credits
Spider-Man 2
Movie • 2004
Snooty Usher
Spider-Man
Movie • 2002
Ring Announcer
Spider-Man 3
Movie • 2007
Maître D'
Man with the Screaming Brain
Movie • 2005
William Cole
Within the Woods
Movie • 1979
Bruce
Evil Dead II
Movie • 1987
Ash
Army of Darkness
Movie • 1992
Ash
Escape from L.A.
Movie • 1996
Surgeon General of Beverly Hills
One December Night
Movie • 2021
Steve
My Name Is Bruce
Movie • 2007
Bruce Campbell
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Movie • 2009
Mayor Shelbourne (voice)
Fargo
Movie • 1996
Soap Opera Actor on TV (uncredited)
Intruder
Movie • 1989
Officer Howard
Sky High
Movie • 2005
Coach Boomer
The Woods
Movie • 2006
Joe Fasulo
Lunatics: A Love Story
Movie • 1991
Ray
The Hudsucker Proxy
Movie • 1994
Smitty
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
Movie • 1999
Barry
Serving Sara
Movie • 2002
Gordon Moore
Bubba Ho-tep
Movie • 2002
Elvis Presley / Sebastian Haff
Comic Book: The Movie
Movie • 2004
Bruce Campbell
The Love Bug
Movie • 1997
Hank Cooper
Darkman
Movie • 1990
Final Shemp
The Ant Bully
Movie • 2006
Fugax (voice)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Movie • 2007
Chicken Bittle (voice)
Maniac Cop 2
Movie • 1990
Jack Forrest
Terminal Invasion
Movie • 2002
Jack
Waxwork II: Lost in Time
Movie • 1992
John Loftmore
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
Movie • 2004
Self
Assault on Dome 4
Movie • 1996
Alex Windham
Maniac Cop
Movie • 1988
Jack Forrest
Tornado!
Movie • 1996
Jake Thorne
La Patinoire
Movie • 1998
Actor
Icebreaker
Movie • 2000
Carl Greig
McHale's Navy
Movie • 1997
Virgil
Moontrap
Movie • 1989
Ray Tanner
Alien Apocalypse
Movie • 2005
Dr. Ivan Hood
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
Movie • 2011
Sam Axe
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
Movie • 1991
Van Helsing
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Movie • 2022
Pizza Poppa
Mindwarp
Movie • 1992
Stover
Evil Dead
Movie • 2013
Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams (uncredited)
Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist
Movie • 2014
Self
Oz the Great and Powerful
Movie • 2013
Winkie Gate Keeper
Running Time
Movie • 1997
Carl
Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure
Movie • 1998
Pierce Thomas 'PT' Madison
Timequest
Movie • 2003
William Roberts
Touch the Top of the World
Movie • 2006
Ed Weihenmayer
Addicted to Fame
Movie • 2012
Carl Greig (archive footage)
Kingdom Come
Movie • 2012
Self
Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter
Movie • 1982
Cleveland Smith
In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory
Movie • 1997
Jeff Erickson
Going Back
Movie • 1984
Brice
The Walking Dead Girls
Movie • 2011
Self
The Color of Time
Movie • 2012
Goody
The Sappy Sap
Movie • 1985
Doc of the Dead
Movie • 2014
Self
The Making of 'Evil Dead II' or The Gore the Merrier
Movie • 2000
Self / Ash
Other Men's Careers
Movie • 2023
Self
Fanalysis
Movie • 2002
Self
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Movie • 2022
Self - Host / Pizza Poppa
The Blind Waiter
Movie • 1980
Harry
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
Movie • 2022
Soap Opera Actor on TV Screen (archive footage)
Heart of Dorkness: Behind the Scenes of 'My Name Is Bruce'
Movie • 2009
Self
Hollywood Signs
Movie • 2022
Self
Attack of the Helping Hand!
Movie • 1979
Helping Hand
My Southern Family Christmas
Movie • 2022
Everett Bergeron
The Majestic
Movie • 2001
Roland the Intrepid Explorer
Congo
Movie • 1995
Charles Travis
Cars 2
Movie • 2011
Rod 'Torque' Redline (voice)
Stryker's War
Movie • 1980
Jack Stryker
The Escort
Movie • 2015
Charles
The Ladykillers
Movie • 2004
Humane Society Worker (uncredited)
The Evil Dead
Movie • 1981
Ash
50 Years of Star Trek
Movie • 2016
Self
Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
Movie • 2016
Self
The Demolitionist
Movie • 1995
Raffle Winner (uncredited)
Medieval Times: The Making of Army of Darkness
Movie • 2015
Self
Curse of the Werewolf
Movie • 1974
The Hunter
Menno's Mind
Movie • 1997
Mick Dourif
The Dead Next Door
Movie • 1989
Raimi / Cmdr. Carpenter (voice) (uncredited)
Oedipus Rex
Movie • 1972
Kreon
Hatred Of A Minute
Movie • 2002
Soap Actor on TV (uncredited)
The Evil Dead: Treasures from the Cutting Room Floor
Movie • 2007
Self
Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder
Movie • 2011
Self
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story
Movie • 2017
Self
Holding It
Movie • 1978
Hubert's Brain
Movie • 2001
Thompson (voice)
Intolerable Cruelty
Movie • 2003
Soap Opera Actor on TV (uncredited)
Swallowed Souls: The Making of 'Evil Dead 2'
Movie • 2011
Self
Masters of Horror
Movie • 2002
Self
All Hail the Popcorn King!
Movie • 2019
Self
Dinner with Leatherface
Movie • 2024
Self
Cult of Terror
Movie • 2017
Self - Actor
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
Movie • 2020
Self
Hail to the Deadites
Movie • 2020
Self
The Perfect Scary Movie
Movie • 2005
Self
Black Friday
Movie • 2021
Jonathan
The Ladies of the Evil Dead Meet Bruce Campbell
Movie • 2007
18½
Movie • 2022
Richard Nixon (voice)
White on Rice
Movie • 2009
Muramoto (voice)
The Last Kids on Earth: Happy Apocalypse to You
Movie • 2021
Highly Functional
Movie • 2017
Chili Youngfield
Acting and Reacting
Movie • 1978
Maury
Torro. Torro. Torro!
Movie • 1981
Watch With... Bruce Campbell presents Evil Dead
Movie • 2021
Watch With... Bruce Campbell presents Evil Dead II
Movie • 2021
Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
Movie • 1985
Video Newscaster (uncredited)
Crimewave
Movie • 1985
Renaldo 'The Heel'
The SF Sketchfest Roast of Bruce Campbell
Movie • 2023
Himself
One by One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead
Movie • 2007
(archive footage)
Evil Dead Rise
Movie • 2023
Dissenting Voice on Recording (voice) (uncredited)
Eddie Presley
Movie • 1993
Asylum Attendant
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Eighty Minutes of a Whole Nother Movie
Movie • 2007
Chicken Bittle (voice)
Memories of Moab
Movie • 2008
Self
Ernie and Emma
Movie • 2026
Ernie
The Quick and the Dead
Movie • 1995
Wedding Shemp
Torro. Torro. Torro!
Movie • 1981
A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas
Movie • 2025
Owl (voice)
Life After Dead: The Ladies of the Evil Dead
Movie • 2007
Self
My Life as a Teenage Robot
TV • 2002
Ellen
TV • 1994
Ed Billik
American Gothic
TV • 1995
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
TV • 1993
Brisco County, Jr.
The Legend of Tarzan
TV • 2001
Max Liebling (voice)
Charmed
TV • 1998
FBI Agent Jackman
Knots Landing
TV • 1979
Joel Benson
Burn Notice
TV • 2007
Sam Axe
Jack of All Trades
TV • 2000
Jack Stiles / Daring Dragoon
The X-Files
TV • 1993
Wayne Weinsider
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
TV • 1993
Bill Church Jr.
Xena: Warrior Princess
TV • 1995
Autolycus
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
TV • 1995
Autolycus
The Replacements
TV • 2006
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
TV • 2007
Homicide: Life on the Street
TV • 1993
Jake Rodzinski
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
Timecop
TV • 1997
Impractical Jokers
TV • 2011
Self
Ash vs Evil Dead
TV • 2015
Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams
The Librarians
TV • 2014
Santa
Archer
TV • 2009
McGinley (voice)
Fargo
TV • 2014
Ronald Reagan
100 Scariest Movie Moments
TV • 2004
Self
Megas XLR
TV • 2004
Magnaminous (voice)
Megas XLR
TV • 2004
Magnanimous (voice)
Eli Roth's History of Horror
TV • 2018
Self
Ripley's Believe It or Not!
TV • 2019
Narrator
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
TV • 2019
Self
A.P. Bio
TV • 2018
John Griffin
The Last Kids on Earth
TV • 2019
Chef (voice)
Last Fan Standing
TV • 2015
Discontinued
TV • 2023
Self - Host
1600 Penn
TV • 2012
Doug Gilchrist
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
TV • 1988
Self
Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure
TV • 2017
King Edmund (voice)
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
TV • 1995
Rob Tapert
Psych
TV • 2006
Ashford Simpson
Fargo
TV • 2014
Ronald Reagan (voice)
Lodge 49
TV • 2018
Gary Green
Hysteria!
TV • 2024
Chief Dandridge
Invincible
TV • 2021
Demon (voice)
Conan
TV • 2010
Self