Ken Campbell
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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."
Known for
Credits
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice (2012)
as Self
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
as Bartlett
Creep (2004)
as Arthur
Alice in Wonderland (1999)
as Mr. Duck
Poor Cow (1967)
as Mr. Jacks
The Story of Pantomime (1976)
as Self
Inspector Clouseau (1968)
as Reporter
The Bride (1985)
as Pedlar
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998)
as Wolf 1 (voice)
Dreamchild (1985)
as Radio Sound Effects Man/March Hare (voice)
Saving Grace (2000)
as Sgt. Alfred Masely
The Tempest (1979)
as Gonzalo, an honest councillor
Wings of Fame (1990)
as Head Waiter
Scandal (1989)
as Editor of Pictorial
Hard Men (1996)
as Mr Ross
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
as Stephen Pipe
Joshua Then and Now (1985)
as Sidney Murdoch
Letter to Brezhnev (1985)
as Newspaper Reporter
The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979)
as Various Roles
The Last Window Cleaner (1979)
as DC Denis Deacey
Dinner at the Sporting Club (1978)
as Neville
Towers of Babel (1981)
as Alfie
Unfair Exchanges (1985)
as Tim Rickett
In the Secret State (1985)
as Hoskins
Friends Reunited (2005)
as Zero
Breaking Glass (1980)
as Publican
The Moon Over Soho (1985)
as Geoffrey Hargreaves
Darkest England (1988)
Actor
Smart Money (1986)
as Mr. Sayles
Ken Campbell's Meaning of Life (2004)
as Self
Justine (1976)
as Dubourg
Crimestrike (1990)
as Julius Caesar
Extraordinary Visitor (1998)
as Rodney
Phoelix (1979)
Actor
Uncle Silas (1968)
as Crabbe
The Big Flame (1969)
as Journalist
A Different Hand (1992)
as The Doctor
The Ken Campbell Roadshow (1971)
as Self
The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick (1967)
as Thomas Chadwick
Secret Nation (1992)
as Parkinson
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain (1985)
as Samuel Smiles