Ken Campbell
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
Agatha Christie's Marple
Crump
Heartbeat
Hector Plumpton
Minder
Seedy Customer
Sherlock Holmes
James Ryder
The Professionals
Parker
The Bill
A Fish Called Wanda
Bartlett
Lovejoy
Ted Goat
Fawlty Towers
Roger
Saving Grace
Sgt. Alfred Masely
The Tempest
Gonzalo, an honest councillor
Scandal
Editor of Pictorial
Smart Money
Mr. Sayles
Creep
Arthur
Inspector Clouseau
Reporter
A Different Hand
The Doctor
Wings of Fame
Head Waiter
The Story of Pantomime
Self
The Gentle Touch
Super Gran
Unlucky Luciano
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
Wolf 1 (voice)
The Big Flame
Journalist
A Zed & Two Noughts
Stephen Pipe
Alice in Wonderland
Mr. Duck
Secret Nation
Parkinson
Uncle Silas
Crabbe
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
Samuel Smiles
In Sickness and in Health
The Irate Driver
In Sickness and in Health
Fred Johnson
Home to Roost
Mr Prendergast
Middlemarch
Mr Mawmsey
Mystery and Imagination
Hard Men
Mr Ross
The Ken Campbell Roadshow
Self
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Various Roles
Baby Bob
Baby Bob
Breaking Glass
Publican
The Bride
Pedlar
The Last Window Cleaner
DC Denis Deacey
Justine
Dubourg
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
Self
Phoelix
Joshua Then and Now
Sidney Murdoch
Letter to Brezhnev
Newspaper Reporter
Friends Reunited
Zero
Local Heroes
Private Schulz
Krauss
Dinner at the Sporting Club
Neville
The Nineteenth Hole
Johnson
Dreamchild
Radio Sound Effects Man/March Hare (voice)
Erasmus Microman
Erasmus Microman
Law & Order
Alex Gladwell
Poor Cow
Mr. Jacks
In the Secret State
Hoskins
Dooley Gardens
Crimestrike
Julius Caesar
Reality on the Rocks
Six Experiments that Changed the World
The Moon Over Soho
Geoffrey Hargreaves
Darkest England
Extraordinary Visitor
Rodney
Towers of Babel
Alfie
Ken Campbell's Meaning of Life
Self
Unfair Exchanges
Tim Rickett
The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick
Thomas Chadwick
An Audience with...
Self