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Campbell Wells Biography (1936-1998)

Born November 17, 1936, in Ashford, Kent, England; died of cancer, January 11, 1998, in London, England; son of Eric George (a minister) and Dorothy Amy (Thompson) Wells; married Teresa Gatacre, 1982. Career: Writer and actor. Eton College, Windsor, England, modern languages teacher, 1961-63; Private Eye, editor (with others), 1964-66; freelance writer, 1970-98; Central School of Art and Design, visiting lecturer. Military service: British Army, 1957-58, Royal Sussex Regiment, served in Korea; became lieutenant.Awards, Honors: Ondas Prize, Spanish radio, 1975, for Alice in Wonderland..

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Writer, actor

Birth Details

November 17, 1936

Ashford, Kent, England

Death Details

January 11, 1998

London, England, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Appearances
• A Fistful of Dollars, United Artists, 1964
• Pompadour major domo, The Bobo, Warner Bros., 1967
• Q's assistant, Casino Royale (also known as Charles K. Feldman's Casino Royale), Columbia, 1967
• Honorable Gavin Hopton, 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia, Columbia,1968
• Tolworth, Every Home Should Have One (also known as Think Dirty), British Lion, 1970
• Owltruss, Rentadick, Virgin, 1972
• The Cobblers of Umbridge, [Great Britain], 1973
• Denis, For Your Eyes Only, United Artists, 1981
• Himself and other roles, The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, UnitedInternational Pictures, 1981
• Bullshot, Handmade Pictures, 1983
• Sir Evelyn Blount, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, Warner Bros., 1984
• Corty, Revolution, Warner Bros., 1985
• Dr. Forrester, Consuming Passions, Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1988
• Reverend Hunt, Princess Caraboo, TriStar, 1994
• Television Appearances
• Series
• Rude Health, [Great Britain], 1987
• Richard Nixon, Chalk, BBC, 1997
• Miniseries
• Flimnap the treasurer, Gulliver's Travels, NBC, 1996
• Movies
• The headmaster, Dutch Girls, London Weekend Television, 1985
• Judge, Casanova (also known as Il veneziano, vite e amori di Giacomo Casanova), [Great Britain], 1987
• (As John Wells) Dr. Eckhardt, Genghis Cohn, Arts and Entertainment, 1993
• Specials
• Holofernes, "Love's Labour's Lost," BBC Television Shakespeare, BBC-2, 1986
• WRITINGS
• Screenplays, Unless Otherwise Noted
• 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia, Columbia, 1968
• Additional dialogue, Rentadick, Virgin, 1972
• Princess Caraboo, TriStar, 1994
• Writings for the Stage
• (With Richard Ingrams) Mrs. Wilson's Diary, Stratford Theatre andCriterion Theatre, London, England, 1967published by Deutsch (London, England), 1967
• Anyone for Denis?, London, England, 1981published by Faber and Faber (London, England), 1982
• Translator of Works for the Stage
• Georg Buechner, Danton's Death, National Theatre, London, England,1970
• Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, National Theatre, 1973
• (And author of preface) Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Figaro Plays: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, A Mother's Guilt, J. Calder (London, England), 1981
• Writings for the Radio
• Alice in Wonderland (based on the book by Lewis Carroll), Spanishradio, 1975BBC-Radio, 1982
• Novels
• (With J. Fortune) A Melon for Ecstasy, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London, England), 1971
• Essays
• The Exploding Present: "Snaps from a Wilsonian Album," introduction by Malcolm Muggeridge, Sidgwick & Jackson (London, England), 1971
• Masterpieces: A Dab at the Sixties and Seventies, 1983
• Collections of Columns
• (With Richard Ingrams) Dear Bill, Deutsch, 1980
• Other Writings
• The Other Half: Further Letters of Denis Thatcher, 1981
• One for the Road: Further Letters of Denis Thatcher, 1982
• Where We Went Wrong: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Routledge & Keegan Paul (London, England), 1982
• My Round! Denis Thatcher's Letters to Bill, 1984
• 50 Glorious Years, 1984
• (Richard Ingrams) Bottoms Up!, Deutsch, 1984
• (Richard Ingrams) Down the Hatch, Deutsch, 1985
• Just the One, 1987
• Mud in Your Eye, 1988
• Still Going Strong, 1989
• Number 10, 1990
• On and On, 1991
• Rude Words, a Discursive History of the London Library, Macmillan(London, England), 1991
• Author of column, "Afterthought" Spectator, 1966-70.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

• Independent, January 12, 1998, p. 16.
• Time, January 26, 1998, p. 25.*