Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 10, 1941
Died
Aug 31, 2008
Place of Birth
Ilford, Essex, England, UK
Credits
70 titles
Ken Campbell
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
Filmography
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
Self
Friends Reunited
Zero
Agatha Christie's Marple
Crump
Creep
Arthur
Ken Campbell's Meaning of Life
Self
Saving Grace
Sgt. Alfred Masely
Six Experiments that Changed the World
Dooley Gardens
Alice in Wonderland
Mr. Duck
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
Wolf 1 (voice)
Extraordinary Visitor
Rodney
Hard Men
Mr Ross
Local Heroes
Reality on the Rocks
Middlemarch
Mr Mawmsey
Heartbeat
Hector Plumpton
A Different Hand
The Doctor
Secret Nation
Parkinson
Crimestrike
Julius Caesar
Wings of Fame
Head Waiter
The Nineteenth Hole
Johnson
Scandal
Editor of Pictorial
A Fish Called Wanda
Bartlett
Darkest England
Erasmus Microman
Erasmus Microman
Smart Money
Mr. Sayles
Lovejoy
Ted Goat
Letter to Brezhnev
Newspaper Reporter
Dreamchild
Radio Sound Effects Man/March Hare (voice)
A Zed & Two Noughts
Stephen Pipe
Joshua Then and Now
Sidney Murdoch
In Sickness and in Health
The Irate Driver
The Moon Over Soho
Geoffrey Hargreaves
The Bride
Pedlar
Home to Roost
Mr Prendergast
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
Samuel Smiles
In the Secret State
Hoskins
Super Gran
Unlucky Luciano
Unfair Exchanges
Tim Rickett
Screen Two
Tim Rickett
The Bill
Sherlock Holmes
James Ryder
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
James Ryder
Towers of Babel
Alfie
Private Schulz
Krauss
Breaking Glass
Publican
The Gentle Touch
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Various Roles
Minder
Seedy Customer
The Tempest
Gonzalo, an honest councillor