Ken Campbell
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."
Acting
Movie
A Fish Called Wanda
as Bartlett
1988
Movie
Creep
as Arthur
2004
TV
Fawlty Towers
as Roger
1975
Movie
Saving Grace
as Sgt. Alfred Masely
2000
Movie
Alice in Wonderland
as Mr. Duck
1999
TV
Sherlock Holmes
as James Ryder
1984
Movie
A Zed & Two Noughts
as Stephen Pipe
1985
TV
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Crump
2004
Movie
Scandal
as Editor of Pictorial
1989
Movie
Inspector Clouseau
as Reporter
1968
Movie
The Bride
as Pedlar
1985
Movie
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
as Wolf 1 (voice)
1998
TV
Lovejoy
as Ted Goat
1986
Movie
Poor Cow
as Mr. Jacks
1967
TV
The Bill
1984
TV
The Professionals
as Parker
1977
Movie
Dreamchild
as Radio Sound Effects Man/March Hare (voice)
1985
Movie
Breaking Glass
as Publican
1980
TV
Heartbeat
as Hector Plumpton
1992
TV
Minder
as Seedy Customer
1979
Movie
Letter to Brezhnev
as Newspaper Reporter
1985
Movie
The Tempest
as Gonzalo, an honest councillor
1979
Movie
Wings of Fame
as Head Waiter
1990
TV
In Sickness and in Health
as The Irate Driver
1985
