Ken Campbell Biography (1941-)

Born December 10, 1941, in Ilford, Essex, England; son of Anthony Colin (a telegrapher) and Elsie (maiden name, Handley) Campbell. Addresses: Agent: Peter Fraser & Dunlop, Drury House, 34-43 Russell St., London WC2B 5HA,England.

Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupation: Actor, writer, director
Birth Details: December 10, 1941; Ilford, Essex, United Kingdom

Famous Works

CREDITS
Stage Appearances
Title role, Old King Cole, Leeds Playhouse, 1970
Stu Lyons, The Great Caper, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1974
Jordan Knockem, Bartholomew Fair, Nottingham, 1976
Violin Time (also known as The Lady from Montsegur), RoyalNational Theatre, London, 1996
Narrator, Macbeth in Pidgin, 1999
History of Comedy--Part One: Ventriloquism, Royal National Theatre, London, 2000
Also appeared in Jamais vu, Royal National Theatre, London.
Major Tours
Ken Campbell's Roadshow, 1971-1974
Stage Director
Jack Sheppard (also known as Anything You Say Will Be Twisted), Octagon, Bolton, 1969 then Mermaid, 1969
Inside Out, Royal Court, 1969
Remember the Truth Dentist, Theatre Upstairs, 1974
The Warp, London, 1979
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, London, 1979
Stage Work
Other
Wrote books for the musicals Bendigo and Walking Like Geoffrey.
Film Appearances
Gonzalo, The Tempest, World Northal, 1979
Lemchek, The Big Red One (also known as Samuel Fuller and the Big Red One), Warner Bros., 1980
Publican, Breaking Glass, Paramount, 1980
Ulisses, Werner Nekes Film, 1982
Sidney Murdoch, Joshua Then and Now, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1985
Pedlar, The Bride, Columbia, 1985
Stephen Pipe, A Zed and Two Noughts (also known as A Zoo: A Zedand Two Noughts), Skouras Pictures, 1985
Reporter, Letter to Brezhnev, Circle Films, 1985
Radio sound effects man, Dreamchild, Thorne EMI, 1985
Bartlett, A Fish Called Wanda, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1988
Wings of Fame, 1989
Editor of pictorial, Scandal, Miramax, 1989
Parkinson, Secret Nation, Black Spot, 1992
Mr. Ross, Hard Men, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1997
Rodney, Extraordinary Visitor (also known as Un visiteur extraordinaire), Cinema Esperanca International, 1998

Sergeant Alfred, Saving Grace, Fine Line, 2000
Starting judge, The Skulls, Warner Bros., 2000
Voice of Po, Titan A.E. (animated; also known as Titan: After Earth), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2000
Television Appearances
Movies
Samuel Smiles, Ligmalion, 1985
Perry, You Me + It, 1993
Under Wraps, The Disney Channel, 1997
Mr. Duck, Alice in Wonderland, NBC, 1999
Also appeared in Reality on the Rocks, Windfall Films; The Egg-Man, Tetra; Middlemarch, BBC; Oscar Dean, Brookside, Channel 4; Tales from the Poop Deck, BBC; Minder-The Nineteenth Hole,Central; Erasmus, Granada; Arena, BBC; Rockcliffe's Babies, BBC; Moon over Soho, BBC; Tower of Babel, Longbow; Supergran, Tyne Tees; Smart Money, BBC; Heart of the Country, BBC; Prospects, Thames; Bullman, Granada; In the Secret State, BBC; All Proceeds to the Beast, Central; Unfair Exchanges, BBC; The Sporting Club Dinner, BBC; and as proprietor of the asylum,The Madness Museum.
Series
James Ryder, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, PBS, 1984
Oscar Dean, Brookside, 1993
Professor Pickney, Dooley Gardens, 1999
Also presented Channel 4 series Six Experiments That Changed the World.
Miniseries
Krauss, Private Schultz, BBC, 1981
Zookeeper, Look at It This Way, BBC, 1992
Specials
The Secret Policeman's Ball, 1981
Episodic
"Sheer Melodrama," The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder, 1969
Parker, "The Rack," The Professionals, 1978
Roger, "The Anniversary," Fawlty Towers, BBC, 1979
Additional voices, Challenge of the GoBots (animated), syndicated,1984
Mr. Predergast, "The Test," Home to Roost, 1986
Ted, "Flaunt It," Colin's Sandwich, 1988
(As Kenneth Campbell) "Beautiful Dreamer," Jake and the Fatman, CBS, 1992
Ted Goat, "Lovejoy Loses It," Lovejoy, 1993
"Handymen," Fantasy Island, ABC, 1998
Edgar Lans, "No One's That Honest," The Bill, 2000
Also appeared in an episode of Law & Order, NBC.
Television Work
Specials
Director, The Mound Builders, PBS, 1976
WRITINGS
Stage Plays
Just Go Will You Harry, produced at Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1969
Christopher Pea, produced at Victoria Theatre, 1970
You See the Thing Is This, produced in London, 1970 published by Evans Plays, 1971
(As Henry Pilk) Pilk's Madhouse, produced at Passe Muraille Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1973 published by Playwrights Co-op, 1973
(With others) Bendigo, produced at Playhouse Theatre, Nottingham,England, published by Playhouse, 1974
The Great Caper, produced in London, published by Royal Court Theatre, 1974
Little Boy Blue (also known as Skungpoomery), produced at Playhouse Theatre, 1975
(With others) Walking Like Geoffrey, produced at Playhouse Theatre, 1975
Old King Cole, produced at Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1968 published by Methuen, 1976
Jack Sheppard (also known as Anything You Say Will Be Twisted), produced at Octagon Theatre, Bolton, England, 1969 published by Macmillan, 1976
School for Clowns, produced at Methuen Theatre, 1977
The Bald Trilogy (contains "The Recollections of a Furtive Nudist," "Pigspurt," and "Jamais Vu,"), published by Methuen, 1996
Also author of Bar Room Tales; An Evening with Sylvester McCoy,Human Bomb; Stonehenge Kit the Ancient Brit; Clowns on a School Outing; Peef; and Frank `n' Stein.
Television Movies
One Night I Danced with Mr. Dalton, ABC, 1969
Also wrote Unfair Exchanges; You See the Thing Is This; andThe Madness Museum.

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