Ken Campbell
Acting
Born 1941-12-10
Died 2008-08-31
Ilford, Essex, England, UK
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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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Agatha Christie's Marple
Minder
Sherlock Holmes
Heartbeat
Screen Two
The Professionals
The Bill
An Audience with...
Lovejoy
Fawlty Towers
A Fish Called Wanda
Mystery and Imagination
The Gentle Touch
In Sickness and in Health
Private Schulz
Middlemarch
Super Gran
Alice in Wonderland
The Bride
Creep
Saving Grace
Home to Roost
Inspector Clouseau
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Scandal
Dreamchild
Local Heroes
The Nineteenth Hole
Poor Cow
Erasmus Microman
A Zed & Two Noughts
Wings of Fame
The Story of Pantomime
The Tempest
Armchair Theatre
Law & Order
Dooley Gardens
Breaking Glass
Hard Men
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Dinner at the Sporting Club
Reality on the Rocks
Letter to Brezhnev
Unfair Exchanges
The Rules of the Game
Uncle Silas
Joshua Then and Now
Friends Reunited
Secret Service
In the Secret State
Smart Money
The Last Window Cleaner
Darkest England
Phoelix
Towers of Babel
Six Experiments that Changed the World
Secret Nation
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
The Ken Campbell Roadshow
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