
J. Kenneth Campbell
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.
36
Films
19
TV Shows
Known For
55 Credits
Frasier
as Mr. Michaels
1993

Charmed
as Elias Lundy
1998

Diagnosis: Murder
as Col. Lucian Chandler
1993

Melrose Place
as Sheriff Spencer
1992

Cheers
as Bob Speakes
1982

Angel
as Angel's Father
1999

Renegade
as D.A. Dennis Piaza
1992

Matlock
as Ed Wingate
1986

Matlock
as Scott Walker
1986

Touched by an Angel
as Cotton
1994

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
as Craig Hoffman (segment "The Wall")
1997

The Guardian
as Mr. Lightstone
2001