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."
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Heartbeat
1992 · Hector Plumpton
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Crump
Minder
1979 · Seedy Customer
Sherlock Holmes
1984 · James Ryder
The Professionals
1977 · Parker
Screen Two
1985 · Tim Rickett
The Bill
1984
An Audience with...
1978 · Self
Lovejoy
1986 · Ted Goat
Fawlty Towers
1975 · Roger
Mystery and Imagination
1966 · Crabbe
The Gentle Touch
1980
In Sickness and in Health
1985 · The Irate Driver
A Fish Called Wanda
1988 · Bartlett
Super Gran
1985 · Unlucky Luciano
Private Schulz
1981 · Krauss
Middlemarch
1994 · Mr Mawmsey
Home to Roost
1985 · Mr Prendergast
Alice in Wonderland
1999 · Mr. Duck
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
2012 · Self
The Bride
1985 · Pedlar
Creep
2004 · Arthur
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1984 · James Ryder
Scandal
1989 · Editor of Pictorial
Dreamchild
1985 · Radio Sound Effects Ma...
The Story of Pantomime
1976 · Self
Inspector Clouseau
1968 · Reporter
Poor Cow
1967 · Mr. Jacks
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Thomas Chadwick
Saving Grace
2000 · Sgt. Alfred Masely
Wings of Fame
1990 · Head Waiter
Hard Men
1996 · Mr Ross
Law & Order
1978 · Alex Gladwell
The Tempest
1979 · Gonzalo, an honest cou...
Dinner at the Sporting Club
1978 · Neville
Joshua Then and Now
1985 · Sidney Murdoch
Breaking Glass
1980 · Publican
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985 · Stephen Pipe
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1979 · Various Roles
Letter to Brezhnev
1985 · Newspaper Reporter
In the Secret State
1985 · Hoskins
Secret Nation
1992 · Parkinson
Phoelix
1979
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
1985 · Samuel Smiles
Unfair Exchanges
1985 · Tim Rickett
Friends Reunited
2005 · Zero
Uncle Silas
1968 · Crabbe
Extraordinary Visitor
1998 · Rodney
The Big Flame
1969 · Journalist
A Different Hand
1992 · The Doctor
The Moon Over Soho
1985 · Geoffrey Hargreaves
The Ken Campbell Roadshow
1971 · Self
Smart Money
1986 · Mr. Sayles
Justine
1976 · Dubourg
Ken Campbell's Meaning of Life
2004 · Self