J. Kenneth Campbell

Biography

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.

Most Known For

Charmed

as Elias Lundy

Frasier

as Mr. Michaels

Cheers

as Bob Speakes

Angel

as Angel's Father

Diagnosis: Murder

as Col. Lucian Chandler

Melrose Place

as Sheriff Spencer

Touched by an Angel

as Cotton

Matlock

as Ed Wingate

Matlock

as Scott Walker

Renegade

as D.A. Dennis Piaza

The Guardian

as Mr. Lightstone

Ally McBeal

as Donald Yorkin

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

as Craig Hoffman (segment "The Wall")

Wonder Woman

as Taft

The Abyss

as DeMarco

Commander in Chief

as The Admiral

Mars Attacks!

as Doctor #1

Turbulence

as Captain Matt Powell

Blue Streak

as Peterson, FBI

Bulworth

as Anthony