Cast & creator
Dallas Campbell
Best known for Slow Horses, The Crown, A Touch of Frost
Dallas Campbell is a well-known British television presenter whose credits include BBC One's Supersized Earth, Bang Goes the Theory (BBC America, 2013), Egypt's Lost Cities, BBC Four's Horizon Guides, and The Drake Equation: The Search for Life. Before joining the BBC, he presented Channel Five's technology program The Gadget Show, as well as Dallas Campbell's Guide to the Impossible, also known as Dallas in Wonderland, a comedy science series he co-produced with R.J. Cutler for Discovery Science in the United States. Prior to moving into factual presenting, he worked as an actor in several of the UK's most popular television shows, including Casualty, Doomwatch, A Touch of Frost, and Moll Flanders. In theatre, he frequently collaborated with the late, legendary director Ken Campbell on various projects, most notably The Warp, the world's longest play, which ran for 29 hours. He wrote and directed the short film No Deposit No Return. He is married to Victoria Goodall, the sister of actress Caroline Goodall.
16
film credits
21
television credits
37
1991–2026 · acting roles
7.1
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (37)
Showing 37 of 37 credits
Slow Horses
Newsreader
2022
The Crown
Morton's Interviewer
2016
A Touch of Frost
Simon Renfrew
1992
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
The Gadget Show
Self - Host
2004
M.I. High
Dallas Campbell
2007
Spender
Young College Type
1991
Science of Stupid
Self - Host
2014
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Master Deniston
1996
Attila
Eugenis
2001
The Christophers
Art Fight Moderator
2026
Bang Goes the Theory
Self - Presenter
2009
Red Dwarf: The First Three Million Years
Self
2020
Positive Energy
Self
2017
Airport Live
Presenter
2013
City in the Sky
Self - Presenter
2016
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Panellist
2020
The Science of Doctor Who
Self
2013The Science of Doctor Who
2012
Time Scanners
Himself - Host
2014
Doomwatch: Winter Angel
Hugo Cox
1999
Egypt's Lost Cities
Presenter
2011
Egypt's Sun King: The Mystery Tombs
Narrator - (Voice)
2018
Tutankhamun: The Truth Uncovered
Self - Presenter
2014
Fallen Angels
Brett Murray
2002
Egypt: What Lies Beneath
Presenter
2011
Britain Beneath Your Feet
Self - Presenter
2015
Television's Opening Night: How the Box Was Born
Self
2016
The Treasure Hunters
Self - Presenter
2014Extinct: A Horizon Guide to Dinosaurs
Himself - Presenter
2011
Supersized Earth
Self - Presenter
2012
Voyager: To the Final Frontier
Self - Presenter
2012
Woof! A Horizon Guide to Dogs
Presenter
2012
Time Scanners: Macchu Picchu
Self
2015
The Search for Life: The Drake Equation
Himself
2010
What Makes Us Clever? A Horizon Guide to Intelligence
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