Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1941-12-10
Day of Death
2008-08-31
Place of Birth
Ilford, Essex, England, UK
Ken Campbell
Biography
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."
Filmography (41)
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
2012
Friends Reunited
2005
Creep
2004
Ken Campbell's Meaning of Life
2004
Saving Grace
2000
Alice in Wonderland
1999
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
1998
Extraordinary Visitor
1998
Hard Men
1996
A Different Hand
1992
Secret Nation
1992Crimestrike
1990
Wings of Fame
1990
Scandal
1989
