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
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
as Bartlett
Alice in Wonderland (1999)
as Mr. Duck
Dreamchild (1985)
as Radio Sound Effects Man/March Hare (voice)
The Bride (1985)
as Pedlar
Creep (2004)
as Arthur
Poor Cow (1967)
as Mr. Jacks
Saving Grace (2000)
as Sgt. Alfred Masely
Inspector Clouseau (1968)
as Reporter
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice (2012)
as Self
Scandal (1989)
as Editor of Pictorial
Hard Men (1996)
as Mr Ross
Wings of Fame (1990)
as Head Waiter
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
as Stephen Pipe
The Story of Pantomime (1976)
as Self
Joshua Then and Now (1985)
as Sidney Murdoch
Breaking Glass (1980)
as Publican
Darkest England (1988)
Actor
The Ken Campbell Roadshow (1971)
as Self
The Tempest (1979)
as Gonzalo, an honest councillor
Towers of Babel (1981)
as Alfie
The Big Flame (1969)
as Journalist
The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979)
as Various Roles
Smart Money (1986)
as Mr. Sayles
A Different Hand (1992)
as The Doctor
The Moon Over Soho (1985)
as Geoffrey Hargreaves
Extraordinary Visitor (1998)
as Rodney
Letter to Brezhnev (1985)
as Newspaper Reporter
The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick (1967)
as Thomas Chadwick
Phoelix (1979)
Actor
Secret Nation (1992)
as Parkinson
The Last Window Cleaner (1979)
as DC Denis Deacey
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain (1985)
as Samuel Smiles
In the Secret State (1985)
as Hoskins
Friends Reunited (2005)
as Zero
Justine (1976)
as Dubourg
Ken Campbell's Meaning of Life (2004)
as Self
Unfair Exchanges (1984)
as Tim Rickett
Dinner at the Sporting Club (1978)
as Neville
Uncle Silas (1968)
as Crabbe
Crimestrike (1990)
as Julius Caesar