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Ken Campbell
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 on…
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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."
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2012
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
Movie Self
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2005
Friends Reunited
Movie Zero
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2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV show Crump
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2004
Creep
Movie Arthur
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2004
Ken Campbell's Meaning of Life
Movie Self
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2000
Saving Grace
Movie Sgt. Alfred Masely
- 1999
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1999
Dooley Gardens
TV show
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1999
Alice in Wonderland
Movie Mr. Duck
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1998
Extraordinary Visitor
Movie Rodney
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1996
Hard Men
Movie Mr Ross
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1996
Local Heroes
TV show
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1995
Reality on the Rocks
TV show
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1994
Middlemarch
TV show Mr Mawmsey
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1992
Heartbeat
TV show Hector Plumpton
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1992
A Different Hand
Movie The Doctor
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1992
Secret Nation
Movie Parkinson
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1990
Crimestrike
Movie Julius Caesar
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1990
Wings of Fame
Movie Head Waiter
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1989
The Nineteenth Hole
TV show Johnson
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1989
Scandal
Movie Editor of Pictorial
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1988
A Fish Called Wanda
Movie Bartlett
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1988
Darkest England
Movie
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1988
Erasmus Microman
TV show Erasmus Microman
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1986
Smart Money
Movie Mr. Sayles
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1986
Lovejoy
TV show Ted Goat
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1985
Letter to Brezhnev
Movie Newspaper Reporter
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1985
A Zed & Two Noughts
Movie Stephen Pipe
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1985
Dreamchild
Movie Radio Sound Effects Man/March Hare (voice)
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1985
Joshua Then and Now
Movie Sidney Murdoch
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1985
In Sickness and in Health
TV show The Irate Driver
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1985
The Moon Over Soho
Movie Geoffrey Hargreaves
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1985
The Bride
Movie Pedlar
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1985
Home to Roost
TV show Mr Prendergast
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1985
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
Movie Samuel Smiles
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1985
In the Secret State
Movie Hoskins
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1985
Super Gran
TV show Unlucky Luciano
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1985
Unfair Exchanges
Movie Tim Rickett
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1985
Screen Two
TV show Tim Rickett
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1984
The Bill
TV show
