J. Kenneth Campbell (born July 22, 1947) is an American film, stage, and television actor who has been cast in over 80 roles. He was born in Flushing, New York. Campbell studied acting under theatrical fight director Patrick Crean, and was an acting instructor himself at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

Contents

• 1 Career
  • 1.1 Television
  • 1.2 Stage
• 2 Filmography
• 3 Notes
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Career

Television

Campbell has made several appearances in television shows, made-for-TV movies, miniseries, and specials. Campbell appeared on the daytime soap operas Another World and Search for Tomorrow in the 1980s. He also had guest appearances on several popular TV series through the years as well, including: The Mod Squad, The Rookies and Baa Baa Black Sheep in the 1970s. In the 1980s, he appeared in Spenser: For Hire, Matlock and Cheers. The 1990s saw him appearing in popular series L.A. Law, Touched by an Angel, Melrose Place, and Walker, Texas Ranger. Then in the 2000s, he landed guest roles in Diagnosis Murder, Charmed and Frasier.

Stage

On stage, Campbell played the Viscount de Valvert in the 1973 musical Cyrano, and appeared in The Philadelphia Story, which ran from 1980-81 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. In 1981 he played Macduff in the Giuseppe Verdi opera Macbeth, also at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. He starred as King Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons in 1986–87, at the Union Square Theatre, as part of the Roundabout Theatre Company. His Broadway credits included The Boys of Winter (1985), The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1983), The Philadelphia Story (1908), The Freedom of the City (1974), and Cyrano (1973).

In 2017, Campbell portrayed President Lyndon Baines Johnson in an Actors' Playhouse production of All the Way in Miami.

Filmography

Notes

References

External links

• J. Kenneth Campbell at IMDb