J. Kenneth Campbell
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.
Acting
Movie
Mars Attacks!
as Doctor #1
1996
Movie
The Abyss
as DeMarco
1989
TV
Charmed
as Elias Lundy
1998
Movie
Blue Streak
as Peterson, FBI
1999
Movie
Collateral Damage
as Ed Coonts
2002
Movie
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
as Ross
1992
TV
Angel
as Angel's Father
1999
Movie
Guess Who
as Nathan Rogers
2005
TV
Frasier
as Mr. Michaels
1993
Movie
The Changeling
as Security Guard
1980
TV
Cheers
as Bob Speakes
1982
TV
Wonder Woman
as Taft
1975
TV
Ally McBeal
as Donald Yorkin
1997
Movie
Waxwork
as Marquis de Sade
1988
Movie
Turbulence
as Captain Matt Powell
1997
Movie
Tomcats
as Mr. MacDonald
2001
Movie
Bulworth
as Anthony
1998
TV
Touched by an Angel
as Cotton
1994
TV
Melrose Place
as Sheriff Spencer
1992
Movie
An Innocent Man
as Lieutenant Freebery
1989
TV
Renegade
as D.A. Dennis Piaza
1992
Movie
Flight of the Intruder
as Lt. Cmdr. 'Cowboy' Parker
1991
TV
Matlock
as Ed Wingate
1986
TV
Matlock
as Scott Walker
1986