Ciaran Brown meets actor Bruce Campbell

He also starred as the title rogue Jack Stiles in 22 episodes of Jack of All Trades (2000). Stiles is an 19th century American adven

When he was eighteen, Campbell went to Detroit to work as a production assistant for a firm making commercials. In 1979, Campbel

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Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell as Elvis Presley in 'Bubba Ho-tep'

Bruce Campbell in 'Evil Dead III' ('Army Of Darkness')

Bruce Campbell's autobiography 'If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor'

Bruce Campbell as Charles Travis in 'Congo'

Bruce Campbell with his daughter Rebecca

Bruce Campbell in 'The Evil Dead' trilogy

Bruce Campbell as the Ring Announcer in 'Spiderman'

Bruce Campbell as Gordon Moore in 'Serving Sara'

Campbell and Raimi decided to 'turn professional' and, with one of their Super-8 films (Within the Woods) to show potential investors, they raised $350,000. With this

Campbell excels at "reverse acting", a filming technique often used by Sam Raimi, where action sequences are filmed in reverse of how they will appear in the film.

In 2007, Campbell directed and starred in the horror comedy My Name is Bruce. The story follows Bruce Campbell in real life until one day a small town in Oregon is overrun by demons. They call on Bruce thinking he is really Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy, but although he tries to convince them otherwise, he ends up being involved anyway.

Campbell continued to make many cameo appearances (see the IMDb filmography for the complete list!) in films of all types, including the Sam Raimi Spiderman films. In fact Campbell claims to have had a role of some sort in every film that Raimi has directed

For the 'big screen', Campbell made films like the romantic comedy Serving Sara (2002) and the surrealist drama Bubba Ho-tep (2002), in which he is cast as Elvis Presley.

Also made for TV were Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995-99) and Xena: Warrior Princess (1996-99). In several episodes of both of these, Campbell appears as the villain Autolycus, the King of Thieves.

After starrring in several low-budget films like Moontrap (1989 ), Maniac Cop (1990) and Mindwarp (1990) Campbell did a great deal of TV work. He was Brisco County Jr in 27 episodes of the comedy western series The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (1993-94) before going on

The Evil Dead took on 'cult status' and became the 'best-selling video of 1983' in England. It was shown at the Cannes Film festival and later released in the USA.

When he was 14 he too could be found on stage at local theatres, in musicals like The King and I and South Pacific. At this time Bruce directed his own Super-8 films with his friend Sam Raimi, who was to become a famous director of films like Spiderman.

Sam Raimi

Bruce Campbell in Spiderman

Bruce Campbell as Elvis in Bubba Ho-tep

Bruce Campbell in Congo (1995)

Young Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell

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Evil Dead

On the back of that success, enough money was raised for the sequel Evil Dead II (1987). Campbell moved to Los Angeles in 1990 and joined Raimi to produce the third of the Evil Dead trilogy Army Of Darkness (1992).

this, they made a full-length version of Within The Woods called The Evil Dead (1981), in which Campbell also starred as 'Ash' Williams.

Bruce Lorne Campbell was born in Birmingham, Michigan, USA, in 1958. H was the youngest of three boys and wanted to be an actor when he was only eight-years-old after seeing his father performing in local theatres.

Bruce Campbell's most recognised feature is his jutting, scarred chin, and he called his autobiography If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor. In this, he describes his career as an actor in low-budget films & TV. His status as a 'cult icon' made the book a gigantic hit with his fans, and ensuring it a place on the NY Times bestseller list.

Campbell has been married twice. First, he was married to Christine Deveau from 1983 to 1989 and had two children with her. In 1991, he married Ida Gearon, a costume designer he met on set when he was filming Mindwarp (1990).