J. Kenneth Campbell
Acting • Born 1947-07-22
Biography
J. Kenneth Campbell's acting career has taken him from Broadway to feature films and television. His many films include Bulworth, Ulee's Gold, Guess Who?, Mars Attacks and The Abyss. He recently completed filming director Kevin Willmott's upcoming feature The Only Good Indian, in which Campbell plays a lead role, alongside Wes Studi (Avatar, Last of the Mohicans). On television, Campbell has appeared in Commander in Chief, Frasier, Charmed, Melrose Place, Ally McBeal, Picket Fences, Matlock, L.A. Law and many other series. Campbell was born in Flushing, New York, in 1947 the second of seven children. He was raised on Long Island and graduated from Cheshire Academy in Connecticut. It was at The University of Arizona where he discovered his calling. Forsaking the "security" of a college degree, he entered "The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater" to study acting with Sanford Miesner. Non-academic acting students in 1967 became automatically eligible for the Selective Service and in the middle of his second year at the Playhouse, Campbell was drafted into the U.S. Army. He retaliated, by joining the Marines. He was wounded in action, and after months of recuperation, he returned to The Playhouse and finished the program. Campbell has worked, on stage, in film and on television ever since.
Filmography
55 credits
The Abyss
Movie • 1989
DeMarco
Tomcats
Movie • 2001
Mr. MacDonald
Bulworth
Movie • 1998
Anthony
Murder 101
Movie • 1991
Tim Ryder
Straight From the Heart
Movie • 2003
Howard Jamison
The Crash of Flight 401
Movie • 1978
Turbulence
Movie • 1997
Captain Matt Powell
The Changeling
Movie • 1980
Security Guard
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Movie • 1987
(voice)
Interceptor
Movie • 1992
Engineer
Ulee's Gold
Movie • 1997
Sheriff Bill Floyd
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Movie • 1990
Todd Harris
The Survivalist
Movie • 1987
President's Spokesman
Mars Attacks!
Movie • 1996
Doctor #1
Cops and Robin
Movie • 1978
Det. Furie
Deadfall
Movie • 1993
Huey
Deadline: Madrid
Movie • 1988
Paul Johnson
The Butcher's Daughter
Movie • 2008
Richard Beaumont
Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday
Movie • 1998
Flint Lukash
Cosmic Slop
Movie • 1994
Mr. Spivey (segment 'The First Commandment')
Roanoak
Movie • 1986
Walter Ralegh
The Only Good Indian
Movie • 2009
McCoy
Michael Landon, the Father I Knew
Movie • 1999
Andy Glennon
Blue Streak
Movie • 1999
Peterson, FBI
Waxwork
Movie • 1988
Marquis de Sade
The Last of the Finest
Movie • 1990
Calvert
Flight of the Intruder
Movie • 1991
Lt. Cmdr. 'Cowboy' Parker
Cobb
Movie • 1994
William Herschel Cobb
Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
Movie • 1986
Ray Anderson
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Movie • 1992
Ross
Collateral Damage
Movie • 2002
Ed Coonts
Love and Bullets
Movie • 1979
Newscaster (uncredited)
Guess Who
Movie • 2005
Nathan Rogers
An Innocent Man
Movie • 1989
Lieutenant Freebery
Bluebird
Movie • 2014
Deputy
Johnny Ryan
Movie • 1990
D.A. Frank Hogan
Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
Col. Lucian Chandler
Wonder Woman
TV • 1975
Taft
Favorite Son
TV • 1988
Thomas
Frasier
TV • 1993
Mr. Michaels
Drug Wars: The Camarena Story
TV • 1990
Stephen Matson
Angel
TV • 1999
Angel's Father
Commander in Chief
TV • 2005
The Admiral
Melrose Place
TV • 1992
Sheriff Spencer
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
TV • 1997
Craig Hoffman (segment "The Wall")
Charmed
TV • 1998
Elias Lundy
Cheers
TV • 1982
Bob Speakes
Touched by an Angel
TV • 1994
Cotton
Threat Matrix
TV • 2003
Renegade
TV • 1992
D.A. Dennis Piaza
Ally McBeal
TV • 1997
Donald Yorkin
Chiefs
TV • 1983
Dr. Tom Manton
The Guardian
TV • 2001
Mr. Lightstone
Matlock
TV • 1986
Ed Wingate
Matlock
TV • 1986
Scott Walker