Ken Campbell
Acting
1941-12-10 · Ilford, Essex, England, UK
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."
Filmography
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
2012 · Movie
Friends Reunited
2005 · Movie
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Series
Creep
2004 · Movie
Ken Campbell's Meaning of Life
2004 · Movie
Saving Grace
2000 · Movie
Six Experiments that Changed the World
1999 · Series
Dooley Gardens
1999 · Series
Alice in Wonderland
1999 · Movie
Extraordinary Visitor
1998 · Movie
Hard Men
1996 · Movie
Local Heroes
1996 · Series
Reality on the Rocks
1995 · Series
Middlemarch
1994 · Series
Heartbeat
1992 · Series
A Different Hand
1992 · Movie
Secret Nation
1992 · Movie
Crimestrike
1990 · Movie
Wings of Fame
1990 · Movie
The Nineteenth Hole
1989 · Series
Scandal
1989 · Movie
A Fish Called Wanda
1988 · Movie
Darkest England
1988 · Movie
Erasmus Microman
1988 · Series
Smart Money
1986 · Movie
Lovejoy
1986 · Series
Letter to Brezhnev
1985 · Movie
Dreamchild
1985 · Movie
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985 · Movie
Joshua Then and Now
1985 · Movie
In Sickness and in Health
1985 · Series
The Moon Over Soho
1985 · Movie
The Bride
1985 · Movie
Home to Roost
1985 · Series
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
1985 · Movie
In the Secret State
1985 · Movie
Super Gran
1985 · Series
Unfair Exchanges
1985 · Movie
Screen Two
1985 · Series
The Bill
1984 · Series
Sherlock Holmes
1984 · Series
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1984 · Series
Towers of Babel
1981 · Movie
Private Schulz
1981 · Series
Breaking Glass
1980 · Movie
The Gentle Touch
1980 · Series
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1979 · Movie
Minder
1979 · Series
The Tempest
1979 · Movie
Phoelix
1979 · Movie
The Last Window Cleaner
1979 · Movie
Dinner at the Sporting Club
1978 · Movie
Law & Order
1978 · Series
An Audience with...
1978 · Series
The Professionals
1977 · Series
Secret Service
1977 · Movie
The Story of Pantomime
1976 · Movie
The Mound Builders
1976 · Movie
Justine
1976 · Movie
Fawlty Towers
1975 · Series
The Rules of the Game
1975 · Movie
The Ken Campbell Roadshow
1971 · Movie
The Big Flame
1969 · Movie
Uncle Silas
1968 · Movie
Inspector Clouseau
1968 · Movie
Poor Cow
1967 · Movie
The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick
1967 · Movie
Mystery and Imagination
1966 · Series
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series