J. Kenneth Campbell

Birthday: 1947-07-22
Birthplace: Flushing, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

J. Kenneth Campbell's acting career has taken him from Broadway to feature films and television. His many films include Bulworth, Ulee's Gold, Guess Who?, Mars Attacks and The Abyss. He recently completed filming director Kevin Willmott's upcoming feature The Only Good Indian, in which Campbell plays a lead role, alongside Wes Studi (Avatar, Last of the Mohicans). On television, Campbell has appeared in Commander in Chief, Frasier, Charmed, Melrose Place, Ally McBeal, Picket Fences, Matlock, L.A. Law and many other series. Campbell was born in Flushing, New York, in 1947 the second of seven children. He was raised on Long Island and graduated from Cheshire Academy in Connecticut. It was at The University of Arizona where he discovered his calling. Forsaking the "security" of a college degree, he entered "The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater" to study acting with Sanford Miesner. Non-academic acting students in 1967 became automatically eligible for the Selective Service and in the middle of his second year at the Playhouse, Campbell was drafted into the U.S. Army. He retaliated, by joining the Marines. He was wounded in action, and after months of recuperation, he returned to The Playhouse and finished the program. Campbell has worked, on stage, in film and on television ever since.

Credits

Year Title Character
2009-12-01 The Only Good Indian McCoy
2008-03-08 The Butcher's Daughter Richard Beaumont
2005-03-25 Guess Who Nathan Rogers
2003-02-09 Straight From the Heart Howard Jamison
2002-02-06 Collateral Damage Ed Coonts
2001-03-30 Tomcats Mr. MacDonald
1999-09-17 Blue Streak Peterson, FBI
1999-05-23 Michael Landon, the Father I Knew Andy Glennon
1998-05-15 Bulworth Anthony
1998-04-10 Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday Flint Lukash
1997-06-13 Ulee's Gold Sheriff Bill Floyd
1997-01-09 Turbulence Captain Matt Powell
1996-12-13 Mars Attacks! Doctor #1
1994-12-02 Cobb William Herschel Cobb
1994-11-08 Cosmic Slop Mr. Spivey (segment 'The First Commandment')
1993-10-08 Deadfall Huey
1992-10-13 Interceptor Engineer
1992-02-21 Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot Ross
1991-03-20 Murder 101 Tim Ryder
1991-01-18 Flight of the Intruder Lt. Cmdr. 'Cowboy' Parker
1990-11-11 The Great Los Angeles Earthquake Todd Harris
1990-03-09 The Last of the Finest Calvert
1989-10-06 An Innocent Man Lieutenant Freebery
1989-08-09 The Abyss DeMarco
1988-09-01 Deadline: Madrid Paul Johnson
1988-06-17 Waxwork Marquis de Sade
1987-10-01 Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (voice)
1987-01-02 The Survivalist President's Spokesman
1986-11-08 Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star Ray Anderson
1986-05-26 Roanoak Walter Ralegh
1980-03-28 The Changeling Security Guard
1979-04-05 Love and Bullets Newscaster (uncredited)
1978-10-29 The Crash of Flight 401
1978-03-28 Cops and Robin Det. Furie