Ken Campbell
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Private Schulz
Krauss
1981
Series
Heartbeat
Hector Plumpton
1992
Series
The Bill
1984
Series
Minder
Seedy Customer
1979
Series
Screen Two
Tim Rickett
1985
Series
Sherlock Holmes
James Ryder
1984
Series
Agatha Christie's Marple
Crump
2004
Series
The Professionals
Parker
1977
Series
An Audience with...
Self
1978
Series
Lovejoy
Ted Goat
1986
Series
Fawlty Towers
Roger
1975
Series
The Gentle Touch
1980
Series
In Sickness and in Health
The Irate Driver
1985
Series
In Sickness and in Health
Fred Johnson
1985
Film
A Fish Called Wanda
Bartlett
1988
Series
Mystery and Imagination
Crabbe
1966
Series
Super Gran
Unlucky Luciano
1985
Series
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
James Ryder
1984
Series
Middlemarch
Mr Mawmsey
1994
Series
Home to Roost
Mr Prendergast
1985
Series
Armchair Theatre
Thomas Chadwick
1956
Film
Alice in Wonderland
Mr. Duck
1999
Local Heroes
1996
Film
Creep
Arthur
2004
Film
Inspector Clouseau
Reporter
1968
Film
The Bride
Pedlar
1985
Film
Saving Grace
Sgt. Alfred Masely
2000
The Nineteenth Hole
Johnson
1989
Film
A Zed & Two Noughts
Stephen Pipe
1985
Film
Scandal
Editor of Pictorial
1989
Dooley Gardens
1999
Film
The Tempest
Gonzalo, an honest councillor
1979
Film
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
Self
2012
Film
Breaking Glass
Publican
1980
Film
Dreamchild
Radio Sound Effects Man/March Hare (voice)
1985
Film
Poor Cow
Mr. Jacks
1967
Film
The Story of Pantomime
Self
1976
Film
Hard Men
Mr Ross
1996
Film
Dinner at the Sporting Club
Neville
1978
Film
Wings of Fame
Head Waiter
1990
Series
Law & Order
Alex Gladwell
1978
Film
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Various Roles
1979
Film
Joshua Then and Now
Sidney Murdoch
1985
The Last Window Cleaner
DC Denis Deacey
1979
Film
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
Samuel Smiles
1985
Film
In the Secret State
Hoskins
1985
Reality on the Rocks
1995
Erasmus Microman
Erasmus Microman
1988
Film
Unfair Exchanges
Tim Rickett
1985
Film
The Moon Over Soho
Geoffrey Hargreaves
1985
Film
Letter to Brezhnev
Newspaper Reporter
1985
Towers of Babel
Alfie
1981
The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick
Thomas Chadwick
1967
Film
The Big Flame
Journalist
1969
Film
Smart Money
Mr. Sayles
1986
Film
Friends Reunited
Zero
2005
Darkest England
1988
Film
Uncle Silas
Crabbe
1968
Six Experiments that Changed the World
1999
Film
Extraordinary Visitor
Rodney
1998
Film
The Ken Campbell Roadshow
Self
1971
Film
Secret Nation
Parkinson
1992
Film
Phoelix
1979
Crimestrike
Julius Caesar
1990
Film
A Different Hand
The Doctor
1992
Film
Justine
Dubourg
1976
Film
Ken Campbell's Meaning of Life
Self
2004