Ken Campbell

Known for ActingBorn 1941-12-10Died 2008-08-31Ilford, 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 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." Read more

Movies & web series

Six Experiments that Changed the World

Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain

Secret Service

Sherlock Holmes

Fawlty Towers

In Sickness and in Health

Agatha Christie's Marple

Middlemarch

Phoelix

The Rules of the Game

Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice

The Professionals

Lovejoy

Heartbeat

Law & Order

A Fish Called Wanda

The Gentle Touch

Screen Two

Crimestrike

Minder

In the Secret State

A Zed & Two Noughts

Towers of Babel

The Mound Builders

Breaking Glass

Uncle Silas

The Bill

The Nineteenth Hole

Saving Grace

Dreamchild

Wings of Fame

The Big Flame

Home to Roost

Super Gran

Letter to Brezhnev

Smart Money

Alice in Wonderland

The Secret Policeman's Ball

Poor Cow

Creep

Secret Nation

Hard Men

Scandal

The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story

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The Tempest

Mystery and Imagination

The Bride