Bruce Campbell
Bruce Campbell was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, United States on June 22nd, 1958 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 65, Bruce Campbell biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Career
Campbell started acting as a child and then started making short Super 8 movies with friends. After Sam Raimi started to teach Wylie E. Groves High School, the two became close friends and started making movies together. Campbell would continue to attend Western Michigan University, although he continued to concentrate on his acting career. Campbell and Raimi worked on a 30-minute Super 8 version of the first Evil Dead film, titled Within the Woods, which was first used to attract investors.
Campbell and Raimi got together with family and friends and started working on The Evil Dead a few years ago. Campbell, who appeared in the lead role, also worked behind the camera, earning a "coexecutive producer" award. Raimi wrote, produced, and edited, while fellow Michigander Rob Tapert was editor. Following Stephen King's endorsement, the film began to be distributed gradually. It became the UK's most popular film four years after its initial debut. It was also available in the United States, spawning two sequels: Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness.
Ash Williams, Campbell's character, was also drawn in the Marvel Zombie comics. He appears in five comics, one of the series Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness. When searching for the Necronomicon, he fights alongside the Marvel heroes and people who have turned into zombies (deadites). In the film "Sky High," Campbell appeared as Coach Bummer.
He has appeared in several of Raimi's films outside of the Evil Dead series, including cameo appearances in the director's Spider-Man film series. Campbell appeared in Raimi's Darkman and The Quick and Dead, but had no actual screen time in the former film's theatrical version. Campbell was confirmed to appear in Raimi's Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in March 2022.
In the film Bubba Ho-Tep, Campbell plays eccentric characters, such as Elvis Presley. He served as a supporting role in Maniac Cop and Maniac Cop 2, and he spoofed his career in the self-directed My Name is Bruce, alongside Bubba Ho-Tep.
Other mainstream films starring Campbell include supporting or starring roles in the Coen Brothers' The Hudsucker Proxy, the Michael Crichton adaptation of McHale's Navy, Escape From Los Angeles, John Carpenter's The Majestic and the 2005 Disney film Sky High.
Campbell appeared in the hit 2009 animated adaptation of the children's book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, as well as a supporting voice role in Pixar's Cars 2.
Campbell, Raimi, and Rob Tapert co-produced The Evil Dead's remake. Campbell hoped he'd reprise his role in Army of Darkness 2. He later worked as an executive producer on Evil Dead Rise, a 2023 film.
Campbell has appeared in a number of television series outside of film. He appeared in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., a raucous science fiction western starring Jeffrey Boam and Carlton Cuse that ran for one season. He was playing a lawyer-turned-bomb hunter who was trying to locate John Bly, the man who killed his father. He appeared in the television series Jack of All Trades, which was based on a fictional island that was occupied by the French in 1801. Campbell was also credited as a co-executive producer, among other things. Eric Gruendemann produced the show, which included Sam Raimi. From 2000 to 2001, the program aired for two seasons. Based on Morgan Edge's appearance in Lois & Clark's "The New Adventures of Superman," he appeared on "Bill Church Jr."
Campbell appeared on Ellen from 1996 to 1997 as Ed Billik, who becomes Ellen's boss as she sells her bookstore in season four.
He is also known for his supporting role as the recurring character in both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, which reunited him with producer Rob Tapert. In two episodes of Hercules set in the present, Campbell portrayed Hercules/Xena series producer Tapert. Several episodes of Hercules and Xena, as well as the Hercules series's finale, were directed by Jack Lavigne.
Campbell also landed the lead role in the Disney made-for-television version of The Love Bug.
In a two-part episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, Campbell played a largely acclaimed dramatic role as a father seeking revenge for his father's murder. Campbell appeared in The X-Files' "Terms of Endearment" later in the series "Terms of Endearment." In the episode "Witch Way Now," he appeared as Agent Jackman. In an episode of the short-lived series American Gothic titled "Meet the Beetles," Charmed featured a state police officer as well as playing a state police officer.
Campbell co-starred on the television series Burn Notice, which aired on USA Network from 2007 to 2013. Sam Axe, a beer-chugging former Navy SEAL now serving as an unlicensed private investigator and occasional mercenary with his old friend Michael Westen, who was the show's main character. Chuck Finley, the alias of one of his father's old co-workers, was used often when undercover. Campbell appeared in Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe, a 2011 Burn Notice made-for-television prequel focusing on Sam's Navy SEAL career.
Campbell appeared in an episode of The Librarians in 2014. In season 2 of the FX original series Fargo, Campbell played Ronald Reagan. Campbell recalled his role as Ashley "Ash" Williams in Ash vs. Evil Dead, a film based on the Evil Dead franchise that began his career. On October 31, 2015, Ash vs. Evil Dead debuted on Starz, and was revived by the cable channel for second and third seasons before being cancelled.
In January 2019, the Travel Channel unveiled a Travel Channel's Believe It or Not revival. Bruce Campbell will be the host and executive producer on a reality show. On June 9, 2019, the 10-episode season debuted.
Campbell appears in a number of online game titles. Ash in the four games based on the Evil Dead film series: Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick, Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick. The Game is a film by David Lynch. He also appeared in other films, including Pitfall 3D: Beyond the Jungle, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, and Dead by Daylight.
In the PC title Tachyon: The Fringe, the voice of main character Jake Burton in the PlayStation game Broken Helix and Magnanimous in Megas XLR, he performed him. In Hellboy: The Science of Evil, Campbell portrayed pulp adventurer Lobster Johnson, and he's done voice-over work on Codemaster's game Hei$t, which was announced on January 28, 2010 as "terminated." In the 2006 film The Ant Bully, he appeared in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Rod "Torque" Redline's voice, and the voice of Fugax.
Despite the inclusion of his character "Ash Williams" in Telltale Games' Poker Night 2, Danny Webber replaces Bruce Campbell as the character in the game.
He has a voice in the online MOBA game Tome: Immortal Arena in 2014. Sgt. Campbell also did voice-over and motion capture. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare by Lennox in the Exo Zombies mode.
Campbell has written as well as acting and occasionally directing, beginning with an autobiography called If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, which was published in June 2001. The autobiography was a hit at The New York Times Best Seller Awards. A chapter about fan reactions at book signings has been included in the paperback edition.
If Chins Could Kill follows Campbell's career as an actor in low-budget films and television, giving his insight into "Blue-Collar Hollywood."
Campbell's next book, Make Love!
On May 26, 2005, Bruce Campbell Way was released. Bruce (depicted in a comedic way) as the book's protagonist, who is trying to make it into the world of A-list movies. Ted Raimi, a long-time collaborator, appeared in an audio play adaptation of Make Love later this year. This radio drama was released on independent label Rykodisc and spans six discs in a 6-hour run time.Campbell wrote a column for X-Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the famed comic book series The Hirer, as well as comic book adaptations of his Man with the Screaming Brain. He wrote the introduction to Josh Becker's book "The Complete Guide to Low-Budget Feature Filmmaking."
Campbell announced in late 2016 that he would publish Hail to the Chin: a B Movie Actor's Confessions of a B Movie Actor, which will take you through his life from where if Chins Could Kill off. In August 2017, Hail to the Chin was released, and a book tour was followed by a tour around the US and Europe.
Campbell also had a blog on his official website, where he mostly wrote about politics and filmmaking. Since being discontinued, the blog has been defunct.
The Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival, narrated and organized by Campbell, took place in Rosemont, Illinois, since 2014. The first festival, which was sponsored by Wizard World, ran from August 21 to April 25, 2014, as part of the Chicago Comicon. With guests Tom Holland and Eli Roth, the second festival ran from August 20 to September 23, 2015. In August 2016, the third festival took place over four days. Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, and Doug Benson were among the event's guests.