Ken Campbell
Acting • Born 1941-12-10 – Died 2008-08-31
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."
Filmography
65 credits
Saving Grace
Movie • 2000
Sgt. Alfred Masely
Creep
Movie • 2004
Arthur
Letter to Brezhnev
Movie • 1985
Newspaper Reporter
In the Secret State
Movie • 1985
Hoskins
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
Movie • 1985
Samuel Smiles
Towers of Babel
Movie • 1981
Alfie
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Movie • 1979
Various Roles
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
Movie • 1998
Wolf 1 (voice)
Unfair Exchanges
Movie • 1985
Tim Rickett
Dinner at the Sporting Club
Movie • 1978
Neville
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
Movie • 2012
Self
The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick
Movie • 1967
Thomas Chadwick
Poor Cow
Movie • 1967
Mr. Jacks
The Bride
Movie • 1985
Pedlar
Uncle Silas
Movie • 1968
Crabbe
Scandal
Movie • 1989
Editor of Pictorial
The Moon Over Soho
Movie • 1985
Geoffrey Hargreaves
Alice in Wonderland
Movie • 1999
Mr. Duck
The Big Flame
Movie • 1969
Journalist
The Tempest
Movie • 1979
Gonzalo, an honest councillor
Justine
Movie • 1976
Dubourg
Inspector Clouseau
Movie • 1968
Reporter
Dreamchild
Movie • 1985
Radio Sound Effects Man/March Hare (voice)
A Zed & Two Noughts
Movie • 1985
Stephen Pipe
Extraordinary Visitor
Movie • 1998
Rodney
Secret Nation
Movie • 1992
Parkinson
Breaking Glass
Movie • 1980
Publican
Wings of Fame
Movie • 1990
Head Waiter
A Fish Called Wanda
Movie • 1988
Bartlett
Joshua Then and Now
Movie • 1985
Sidney Murdoch
Smart Money
Movie • 1986
Mr. Sayles
Hard Men
Movie • 1996
Mr Ross
The Last Window Cleaner
Movie • 1979
DC Denis Deacey
The Ken Campbell Roadshow
Movie • 1971
Self
Crimestrike
Movie • 1990
Julius Caesar
The Story of Pantomime
Movie • 1976
Self
Phoelix
Movie • 1979
A Different Hand
Movie • 1992
The Doctor
Darkest England
Movie • 1988
Friends Reunited
Movie • 2005
Zero
Ken Campbell's Meaning of Life
Movie • 2004
Self
The Bill
TV • 1984
The Gentle Touch
TV • 1980
Fawlty Towers
TV • 1975
Roger
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Hector Plumpton
Minder
TV • 1979
Seedy Customer
Lovejoy
TV • 1986
Ted Goat
Law & Order
TV • 1978
Alex Gladwell
Local Heroes
TV • 1996
Erasmus Microman
TV • 1988
Erasmus Microman
Dooley Gardens
TV • 1999
Super Gran
TV • 1985
Unlucky Luciano
An Audience with...
TV • 1978
Self
Six Experiments that Changed the World
TV • 1999
Reality on the Rocks
TV • 1995
Middlemarch
TV • 1994
Mr Mawmsey
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1984
James Ryder
Home to Roost
TV • 1985
Mr Prendergast
The Professionals
TV • 1977
Parker
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Crump
The Nineteenth Hole
TV • 1989
Johnson
In Sickness and in Health
TV • 1985
The Irate Driver
In Sickness and in Health
TV • 1985
Fred Johnson
Mystery and Imagination
TV • 1966
Crabbe
Private Schulz
TV • 1981
Krauss