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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 22, 1947
Place of Birth
Flushing, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Kenneth Campbell
J. Kenneth Campbell
0.2 Popularity
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
5.7
Deputy
Bluebird
2014
3.5
McCoy
The Only Good Indian
2009
8.0
Richard Beaumont
The Butcher's Daughter
2008
7.7
The Admiral
Commander in Chief
2005
6.0
Nathan Rogers
Guess Who
2005
6.0
Threat Matrix
2003
6.4
Howard Jamison
Straight From the Heart
2003
5.8
Ed Coonts
Collateral Damage
2002
6.9
Mr. Lightstone
The Guardian
2001
5.1
Mr. MacDonald
Tomcats
2001
Credits
Bluebird
as Deputy
2014
5.7
The Only Good Indian
as McCoy
2009
3.5
The Butcher's Daughter
as Richard Beaumont
2008
8.0
Commander in Chief
as The Admiral
2005
7.7
Guess Who
as Nathan Rogers
2005
6.0
Threat Matrix
2003
6.0
Straight From the Heart
as Howard Jamison
2003
6.4
Collateral Damage
as Ed Coonts
2002
5.8
The Guardian
as Mr. Lightstone
2001
6.9
Tomcats
as Mr. MacDonald
2001
5.1
Angel
as Angel's Father
1999
7.9
Blue Streak
as Peterson, FBI
1999
6.5
Michael Landon, the Father I Knew
as Andy Glennon
1999
3.8
Charmed
as Elias Lundy
1998
8.2
Bulworth
as Anthony
1998
6.3
Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday
as Flint Lukash
1998
4.2
Ally McBeal
as Donald Yorkin
1997
6.6
Ulee's Gold
as Sheriff Bill Floyd
1997
6.5
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
as Craig Hoffman (segment "The Wall")
1997
7.2
Turbulence
as Captain Matt Powell
1997
5.4
Mars Attacks!
as Doctor #1
1996
6.4
Cobb
as William Herschel Cobb
1994
5.9
Cosmic Slop
as Mr. Spivey (segment 'The First Commandment')
1994
4.3
Touched by an Angel
as Cotton
1994
7.2
Diagnosis: Murder
as Col. Lucian Chandler
1993
7.1
Deadfall
as Huey
1993
4.0
Frasier
as Mr. Michaels
1993
7.7
Interceptor
as Engineer
1992
5.9
Renegade
as D.A. Dennis Piaza
1992
6.7
Melrose Place
as Sheriff Spencer
1992
5.9
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
as Ross
1992
5.3
Murder 101
as Tim Ryder
1991
5.0
Flight of the Intruder
as Lt. Cmdr. 'Cowboy' Parker
1991
5.7
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
as Todd Harris
1990
6.7
The Last of the Finest
as Calvert
1990
5.9
Drug Wars: The Camarena Story
as Stephen Matson
1990
6.1
An Innocent Man
as Lieutenant Freebery
1989
6.1
The Abyss
as DeMarco
1989
7.3
Favorite Son
as Thomas
1988
4.0
Deadline: Madrid
as Paul Johnson
1988
0.0
Waxwork
as Marquis de Sade
1988
6.2
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
as (voice)
1987
7.1
The Survivalist
as President's Spokesman
1987
2.4
Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
as Ray Anderson
1986
7.0
Roanoak
as Walter Ralegh
1986
0.0
Matlock
as Ed Wingate
1986
7.1
Matlock
as Scott Walker
1986
7.1
Chiefs
as Dr. Tom Manton
1983
8.0
Cheers
as Bob Speakes
1982
7.6
The Changeling
as Security Guard
1980
7.0
Love and Bullets
as Newscaster (uncredited)
1979
5.9
The Crash of Flight 401
1978
7.5
Cops and Robin
as Det. Furie
1978
6.0
Wonder Woman
as Taft
1975
7.0