Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 22, 1947
Place of Birth
Flushing, New York, USA
Credits
57 titles
J. Kenneth Campbell
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.
Known For
Filmography
Bluebird
Deputy
The Only Good Indian
McCoy
The Butcher's Daughter
Richard Beaumont
Commander in Chief
The Admiral
Guess Who
Nathan Rogers
Threat Matrix
Straight from the Heart
Howard Jamison
Collateral Damage
Ed Coonts
The Guardian
Mr. Lightstone
Tomcats
Mr. MacDonald
Angel
Angel's Father
Blue Streak
Peterson, FBI
Michael Landon, the Father I Knew
Andy Glennon
Charmed
Elias Lundy
Bulworth
Anthony
Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday
Flint Lukash
Ally McBeal
Donald Yorkin
Ulee's Gold
Sheriff Bill Floyd
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Craig Hoffman (segment "The Wall")
Turbulence
Captain Matt Powell
Mars Attacks!
Doctor #1
Cobb
William Herschel Cobb
Cosmic Slop
Mr. Spivey (segment 'The First Commandment')
Touched by an Angel
Cotton
Diagnosis: Murder
Col. Lucian Chandler
Deadfall
Huey
Frasier
Mr. Michaels
Interceptor
Engineer
Renegade
D.A. Dennis Piaza
Melrose Place
Sheriff Spencer
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Ross
Murder 101
Tim Ryder
Flight of the Intruder
Lt. Cmdr. 'Cowboy' Parker
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Todd Harris
Johnny Ryan
D.A. Frank Hogan
The Last of the Finest
Calvert
Drug Wars: The Camarena Story
Stephen Matson
An Innocent Man
Lieutenant Freebery
The Abyss
DeMarco
Favorite Son
Thomas
Deadline: Madrid
Paul Johnson
Waxwork
Marquis de Sade
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
(voice)
The Survivalist
President's Spokesman
Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
Ray Anderson
L.A. Law
Judge Walter Stone
Roanoak
Walter Ralegh
Roanoak
Walter Ralegh
Matlock
Ed Wingate
Chiefs
Dr. Tom Manton