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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 10, 1941
Died
August 31, 2008
Place of Birth
Ilford, Essex, England, UK
Also Known As
- Kenneth Campbell
Ken Campbell
0.5 Popularity
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
7.4
Self
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
2012
0.0
Zero
Friends Reunited
2005
7.8
Crump
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
6.0
Arthur
Creep
2004
0.0
Self
Ken Campbell's Meaning of Life
2004
6.5
Sgt. Alfred Masely
Saving Grace
2000
🎬
0.0
Six Experiments that Changed the World
1999
🎬
0.0
Dooley Gardens
1999
6.2
Mr. Duck
Alice in Wonderland
1999
5.7
Wolf 1 (voice)
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
1998
Credits
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
as Self
2012
7.4
Friends Reunited
as Zero
2005
0.0
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Crump
2004
7.8
Creep
as Arthur
2004
6.0
Ken Campbell's Meaning of Life
as Self
2004
0.0
Saving Grace
as Sgt. Alfred Masely
2000
6.5
🎬
Six Experiments that Changed the World
1999
0.0
🎬
Dooley Gardens
1999
0.0
Alice in Wonderland
as Mr. Duck
1999
6.2
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
as Wolf 1 (voice)
1998
5.7
Extraordinary Visitor
as Rodney
1998
3.4
Hard Men
as Mr Ross
1996
5.7
🎬
Local Heroes
1996
0.0
🎬
Reality on the Rocks
1995
0.0
Middlemarch
as Mr Mawmsey
1994
7.8
Heartbeat
as Hector Plumpton
1992
7.1
A Different Hand
as The Doctor
1992
0.0
Secret Nation
as Parkinson
1992
5.2
🎬
Crimestrike
as Julius Caesar
1990
0.0
Wings of Fame
as Head Waiter
1990
6.4
🎬
The Nineteenth Hole
as Johnson
1989
5.5
Scandal
as Editor of Pictorial
1989
5.9
A Fish Called Wanda
as Bartlett
1988
7.2
🎬
Darkest England
1988
0.0
🎬
Erasmus Microman
as Erasmus Microman
1988
0.0
Smart Money
as Mr. Sayles
1986
5.5
Lovejoy
as Ted Goat
1986
7.3
Letter to Brezhnev
as Newspaper Reporter
1985
6.3
A Zed & Two Noughts
as Stephen Pipe
1985
7.0
Dreamchild
as Radio Sound Effects Man/March Hare (voice)
1985
6.5
Joshua Then and Now
as Sidney Murdoch
1985
5.0
In Sickness and in Health
as The Irate Driver
1985
7.8
In Sickness and in Health
as Fred Johnson
1985
7.8
The Moon Over Soho
as Geoffrey Hargreaves
1985
0.0
The Bride
as Pedlar
1985
5.3
Home to Roost
as Mr Prendergast
1985
6.3
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
as Samuel Smiles
1985
0.0
In the Secret State
as Hoskins
1985
0.0
Super Gran
as Unlucky Luciano
1985
6.3
Unfair Exchanges
as Tim Rickett
1985
0.0
The Bill
1984
6.7
Sherlock Holmes
as James Ryder
1984
8.1
🎬
Towers of Babel
as Alfie
1981
7.0
Private Schulz
as Krauss
1981
4.8
Breaking Glass
as Publican
1980
6.8
The Gentle Touch
1980
6.9
The Secret Policeman's Ball
as Various Roles
1979
6.1
Minder
as Seedy Customer
1979
6.8
The Tempest
as Gonzalo, an honest councillor
1979
5.7
Phoelix
1979
0.0
🎬
The Last Window Cleaner
as DC Denis Deacey
1979
0.0
Dinner at the Sporting Club
as Neville
1978
1.0
Law & Order
as Alex Gladwell
1978
6.5
An Audience with...
as Self
1978
5.3
The Professionals
as Parker
1977
7.5
The Story of Pantomime
as Self
1976
0.0
Justine
as Dubourg
1976
2.2
Fawlty Towers
as Roger
1975
8.3
The Ken Campbell Roadshow
as Self
1971
0.0
The Big Flame
as Journalist
1969
5.0
Uncle Silas
as Crabbe
1968
0.0
Inspector Clouseau
as Reporter
1968
5.0
Poor Cow
as Mr. Jacks
1967
6.3
🎬
The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick
as Thomas Chadwick
1967
0.0
Mystery and Imagination
1966
5.5