Cast & creator
Ken Campbell
Best known for Private Schulz, The Bill, Heartbeat
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."
Also known as: Kenneth Campbell
45
film credits
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television credits
67
1956–2012 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (74)
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Private Schulz
Krauss
1981
The Bill
1984
Heartbeat
Hector Plumpton
1992
Minder
Seedy Customer
1979
Screen Two
Tim Rickett
1985Screen Two
Writer
1985
Sherlock Holmes
James Ryder
1984
The Professionals
Parker
1977
Agatha Christie's Marple
Crump
2004
An Audience with...
Self
1978
Lovejoy
Ted Goat
1986
The Gentle Touch
1980
Fawlty Towers
Roger
1975
In Sickness and in Health
The Irate Driver
1985In Sickness and in Health
Fred Johnson
1985
A Fish Called Wanda
Bartlett
1988
Super Gran
Unlucky Luciano
1985
Mystery and Imagination
Crabbe
1966
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
James Ryder
1984
Middlemarch
Mr Mawmsey
1994
Alice in Wonderland
Mr. Duck
1999
Home to Roost
Mr Prendergast
1985
Armchair Theatre
Thomas Chadwick
1956Armchair Theatre
Writer
1956Local Heroes
1996
Inspector Clouseau
Reporter
1968
Creep
Arthur
2004
The Bride
Pedlar
1985
Saving Grace
Sgt. Alfred Masely
2000
Scandal
Editor of Pictorial
1989The Nineteenth Hole
Johnson
1989Dooley Gardens
1999
A Zed & Two Noughts
Stephen Pipe
1985
The Tempest
Gonzalo, an honest councillor
1979
Poor Cow
Mr. Jacks
1967
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
Self
2012
Dreamchild
Radio Sound Effects Man/March Hare (voice)
1985
Breaking Glass
Publican
1980
The Story of Pantomime
Self
1976
Law & Order
Alex Gladwell
1978
Wings of Fame
Head Waiter
1990
Dinner at the Sporting Club
Neville
1978
Hard Men
Mr Ross
1996
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Various Roles
1979The Last Window Cleaner
DC Denis Deacey
1979
In the Secret State
Hoskins
1985Reality on the Rocks
1995
Joshua Then and Now
Sidney Murdoch
1985
The Rules of the Game
Producer
1975
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
Samuel Smiles
1985
Letter to Brezhnev
Newspaper Reporter
1985
The Moon Over Soho
Geoffrey Hargreaves
1985
Secret Service
Producer
1977Erasmus Microman
Erasmus Microman
1988Darkest England
1988Towers of Babel
Alfie
1981Six Experiments that Changed the World
1999
Unfair Exchanges
Tim Rickett
1984Unfair Exchanges
Writer
1984
Friends Reunited
Zero
2005
The Ken Campbell Roadshow
Self
1971
Secret Nation
Parkinson
1992The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick
Thomas Chadwick
1967
The Mound Builders
Director
1976
The Big Flame
Journalist
1969
Uncle Silas
Crabbe
1968
Extraordinary Visitor
Rodney
1998
A Different Hand
The Doctor
1992
Ken Campbell's Meaning of Life
Self
2004Ken Campbell's Meaning of Life
Writer
2004
Phoelix
1979
Justine
Dubourg
1976
Smart Money
Mr. Sayles
1986Crimestrike
Julius Caesar
1990