J. Kenneth Campbell
J. Kenneth Campbell's acting career has taken him from Broadway to feature films and television. His many films include Bulworth, Ulee's Gold, Guess Who?, Mars Attacks and The Abyss. He recently completed filming director Kevin Willmott's upcoming feature The Only Good Indian, in which Campbell plays a lead role, alongside Wes Studi (Avatar, Last of the Mohicans). On television, Campbell has appeared in Commander in Chief, Frasier, Charmed, Melrose Place, Ally McBeal, Picket Fences, Matlock, L.A. Law and many other series. Campbell was born in Flushing, New York, in 1947 the second of seven children. He was raised on Long Island and graduated from Cheshire Academy in Connecticut. It was at The University of Arizona where he discovered his calling. Forsaking the "security" of a college degree, he entered "The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater" to study acting with Sanford Miesner. Non-academic acting students in 1967 became automatically eligible for the Selective Service and in the middle of his second year at the Playhouse, Campbell was drafted into the U.S. Army. He retaliated, by joining the Marines. He was wounded in action, and after months of recuperation, he returned to The Playhouse and finished the program. Campbell has worked, on stage, in film and on television ever since.
Known for
Charmed
Elias Lundy
Frasier
Mr. Michaels
Cheers
Bob Speakes
Diagnosis: Murder
Col. Lucian Chandler
Angel
Angel's Father
Melrose Place
Sheriff Spencer
Renegade
D.A. Dennis Piaza
The Abyss
DeMarco
The Guardian
Mr. Lightstone
Touched by an Angel
Cotton
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Craig Hoffman (segment "The Wall")
Blue Streak
Peterson, FBI
Interceptor
Engineer
Bluebird
Deputy
Ally McBeal
Donald Yorkin
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Ross
Deadfall
Huey
Deadline: Madrid
Paul Johnson
Turbulence
Captain Matt Powell
Tomcats
Mr. MacDonald
Wonder Woman
Taft
Waxwork
Marquis de Sade
Cosmic Slop
Mr. Spivey (segment 'The First Commandment')
The Changeling
Security Guard
Cobb
William Herschel Cobb
An Innocent Man
Lieutenant Freebery
Flight of the Intruder
Lt. Cmdr. 'Cowboy' Parker
Mars Attacks!
Doctor #1
Commander in Chief
The Admiral
The Last of the Finest
Calvert
The Survivalist
President's Spokesman
Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday
Flint Lukash
Love and Bullets
Newscaster (uncredited)
Guess Who
Nathan Rogers
Threat Matrix
Straight From the Heart
Howard Jamison
Bulworth
Anthony
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Todd Harris
Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
Ray Anderson
Roanoak
Walter Ralegh
Murder 101
Tim Ryder
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
(voice)
Collateral Damage
Ed Coonts
Ulee's Gold
Sheriff Bill Floyd
Chiefs
Dr. Tom Manton
Michael Landon, the Father I Knew
Andy Glennon
The Butcher's Daughter
Richard Beaumont
Drug Wars: The Camarena Story
Stephen Matson
Favorite Son
Thomas
The Only Good Indian
McCoy
The Crash of Flight 401
Cops and Robin
Det. Furie