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Personal Info

Birth date

1958-06-22 (67 Years)

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Birmingham, Michigan, USA

Also known as

Pete Perkinson
R.O.C. Sandstorm
Shemp Wooley
布鲁斯·坎贝尔
ブルース・キャンベル
Brus Kembel
بروس کمپبل
بروس کمبل

Bruce Campbell

Biography

Bruce Lorne Campbell (born June 22, 1958) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known best for being Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead horror series, beginning with the short movie Within the Woods (1978). He has also featured in many low-budget cult movies, such as Crimewave (1985), Maniac Cop (1988), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989), and Bubba Ho-Tep (2002).

Campbell had the main roles in the television series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993–1994) and Jack of All Trades (2000), and a recurring role as Autolycus, King of Thieves in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995–1999) and Xena: Warrior Princess (1995–1999). He played Sam Axe on the USA Network series Burn Notice (2007–2013) and reprised his role as Ash for the Starz series Ash vs. Evil Dead (2015–2018). He also appeared in The Escort (2015).

Campbell directed, produced, and featured in the documentaries Fanalysis (2002) and A Community Speaks (2004); co-wrote, directed, produced, and featured in the movie Man with the Screaming Brain (2005); and directed, produced, and featured in a parody of his career My Name Is Bruce (2007).

Campbell is known for frequent collaborations with Raimi, his brother Ted, Josh Becker, and Scott Spiegel.

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Filmography

Acting

TBAErnie and Emma as Ernie

2024Dinner with Leatherface as Self

2024Hysteria! (8 Episodes) as Chief Dandridge

2023Discontinued (10 Episodes) as Self - Host

2023Other Men's Careers as Self

2023Evil Dead Rise as Dissenting Voice on Recording (voice) (uncredited)

2023The SF Sketchfest Roast of Bruce Campbell as Himself

2022My Southern Family Christmas as Everett Bergeron

20221982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! as Self

2022Hollywood Signs as Self

2022Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Self - Host / Pizza Poppa

202218½ as Richard Nixon (voice)

2022Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Pizza Poppa

2022Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called as Soap Opera Actor on TV Screen (archive footage)

2021Black Friday as Jonathan

2021One December Night as Steve

2021Watch With... Bruce Campbell presents Evil Dead II as Unknown

2021The Last Kids on Earth: Happy Apocalypse to You as Unknown

2021INVINCIBLE (1 Episode) as Demon (voice)

2021Watch With... Bruce Campbell presents Evil Dead as Unknown

2020Hail to the Deadites as Self

2020Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi as Self

2019The Last Kids on Earth (21 Episodes) as Chef (voice)

2019All Hail the Popcorn King! as Self

2019Ripley's Believe It or Not! (10 Episodes) as Narrator

2019The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs (1 Episode) as Himself

2018Eli Roth's History of Horror (2 Episodes) as Self

2018Lodge 49 (3 Episodes) as Gary Green

2018Winning the Super Bowl is easy as Unknown

2018A.P. Bio (1 Episode) as John Griffin

2017Cult of Terror as Self - Actor

2017Highly Functional as Chili Youngfield

2017To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story as Self

2017Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (1 Episode) as King Edmund (voice)

201650 Years of Star Trek as Self

2016Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls as Self

2015The Escort as Charles

2015Ash vs Evil Dead (30 Episodes) as Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams

2015Medieval Times: The Making of Army of Darkness as Self

2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (1 Episode) as Self

2015Last Fan Standing (10 Episodes) as Unknown

2014The Librarians (1 Episode) as Santa

2014Fargo (1, 1 Episode) as Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan (voice)

2014Doc of the Dead as Self

2014Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist as Self

2013Evil Dead as Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams (uncredited)

2013Oz the Great and Powerful as Winkie Gate Keeper

20121600 Penn (1 Episode) as Doug Gilchrist

2012Addicted to Fame as Carl Greig (archive footage)

2012The Color of Time as Goody

2012Kingdom Come as Self

2011Impractical Jokers (1 Episode) as Self

2011Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder as Self

2011Swallowed Souls: The Making of Evil Dead 2 as Self

2011Cars 2 as Rod "Torque" Redline (voice)

2011Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe as Sam Axe

2011The Walking Dead Girls as Self

2009Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs as Mayor Shelbourne (voice)

2009Archer (1 Episode) as McGinley (voice)

2009White on Rice as Muramoto (voice)

2009Heart of Dorkness: Behind the Scenes of 'My Name Is Bruce' as Self

2008Memories of Moab as Self

2007The Evil Dead: Treasures from the Cutting Room Floor as Self

2007The Ladies of the Evil Dead Meet Bruce Campbell as Unknown

2007One by One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead as (archive footage)

2007My Name Is Bruce as Bruce Campbell

2007Aqua Teen Hunger Force Eighty Minutes of a Whole Nother Movie as Chicken Bittle (voice)

2007Burn Notice (111 Episodes) as Sam Axe

2007Spider-Man 3 as Maître D'

2007Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters as Chicken Bittle (voice)

2007El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera (1 Episode) as Unknown

2006The Ant Bully as Fugax (voice)

2006The Replacements (1 Episode) as Unknown

2006Psych (1 Episode) as Ashford Simpson

2006Touch the Top of the World as Ed Weihenmayer

2006The Woods as Joe Fasulo

2005The Perfect Scary Movie as Self

2005Sky High as Coach Boomer

2005Man with the Screaming Brain as William Cole

2005Alien Apocalypse as Dr. Ivan Hood

2004Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing as Self

2004100 Scariest Movie Moments (5 Episodes) as Self

2004Spider-Man 2 as Snooty Usher

2004Megas XLR (1, 1 Episode) as Magnaminous (voice), Magnanimous (voice)

2004The Ladykillers as Humane Society Worker (uncredited)

2004Comic Book: The Movie as Bruce Campbell

2003Intolerable Cruelty as Soap Opera Actor on TV (uncredited)

2003Timequest as William Roberts

2002Masters of Horror as Self

2002My Life as a Teenage Robot (1 Episode) as Unknown

2002Terminal Invasion as Jack

2002Serving Sara as Gordon Moore

2002Bubba Ho-tep as Elvis Presley / Sebastian Haff

2002Spider-Man as Ring Announcer

2002Fanalysis as Self

2002Hatred Of A Minute as Soap Actor on TV (uncredited)

2001The Majestic as Roland the Intrepid Explorer

2001The Legend of Tarzan (1 Episode) as Max Liebling (voice)

2001Hubert's Brain as Thompson (voice)

2000The Making of 'Evil Dead II' or The Gore the Merrier as Self / Ash

2000Icebreaker as Carl Greig

2000Jack of All Trades (22 Episodes) as Jack Stiles / Daring Dragoon

1999From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money as Barry

1998La Patinoire as Actor

1998Charmed (1 Episode) as FBI Agent Jackman

1998Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure as Pierce Thomas 'PT' Madison

1997Running Time as Carl

1997Menno's Mind as Mick Dourif

1997The Love Bug as Hank Cooper

1997Timecop (1 Episode) as Unknown

1997McHale's Navy as Virgil

1997In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory as Jeff Erickson

1996Assault on Dome 4 as Alex Windham

1996Escape from L.A. as Surgeon General of Beverly Hills

1996Tornado! as Jake Thorne

1996Fargo as Soap Opera Actor on TV (uncredited)

1995American Gothic (1 Episode) as Unknown

1995Xena: Warrior Princess (8 Episodes) as Autolycus

1995Congo as Charles Travis

1995The Demolitionist as Raffle Winner (uncredited)

1995The Quick and the Dead as Wedding Shemp

1995Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (10, 2 Episode) as Autolycus, Rob Tapert

1994Ellen (7 Episodes) as Ed Billik

1994The Hudsucker Proxy as Smitty

1993Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (3 Episodes) as Bill Church Jr.

1993The X-Files (1 Episode) as Wayne Weinsider

1993The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. as Brisco County Jr.

1993The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (27 Episodes) as Brisco County, Jr.

1993Eddie Presley as Asylum Attendant

1993Homicide: Life on the Street (2 Episodes) as Unknown

1992Army of Darkness as Ash

1992Mindwarp as Stover

1992Waxwork II: Lost in Time as John Loftmore

1991Lunatics: A Love Story as Ray

1990Darkman as Final Shemp

1990Maniac Cop 2 as Jack Forrest

1989The Dead Next Door as Raimi / Cmdr. Carpenter (voice) (uncredited)

1989Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat as Van Helsing

1989Moontrap as Ray Tanner

1989Intruder as Officer Howard

1988The Incredibly Strange Film Show (1 Episode) as Self

1988Maniac Cop as Jack Forrest

1987Evil Dead II as Ash

1985Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except as Video Newscaster (uncredited)

1985The Sappy Sap as Unknown

1985Crimewave as Renaldo 'The Heel'

1984Going Back as Brice

1982Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter as Cleveland Smith

1981The Evil Dead as Ash

1981Torro. Torro. Torro! as Unknown

1981Torro. Torro. Torro! as Unknown

1980Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except as Jack Stryker

1980The Blind Waiter as Harry

1979Knots Landing (1 Episode) as Joel Benson

1979Attack of the Helping Hand! as Helping Hand

1978Within the Woods as Bruce

1978Holding It as Unknown

1978Acting and Reacting as Maury

1977It's Murder! as Police Officer

1974Curse of the Werewolf as The Hunter

1972Oedipus Rex as Kreon

Writing

TBAErnie and Emma ... Writer

2005Man with the Screaming Brain ... Story, Writer

1992The Nutt House ... Screenplay

1985Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except ... Story

1980Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except ... Story

Directing

TBAErnie and Emma ... Director

2007My Name Is Bruce ... Director

2005Man with the Screaming Brain ... Director

2002Fanalysis ... Director

1998V.I.P. (2 Episodes) ... Director

1995Xena: Warrior Princess (2 Episodes) ... Director

1995Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (7 Episodes) ... Director

1977It's Murder! ... Second Unit Director

Production

TBAUntitled Evil Dead Film ... Executive Producer

2026Evil Dead Burn ... Executive Producer

2023Discontinued (10 Episodes) ... Producer

2023Evil Dead Rise ... Executive Producer

2021Black Friday ... Producer

2019Ripley's Believe It or Not! (10 Episodes) ... Executive Producer

2013Evil Dead ... Producer

2007My Name Is Bruce ... Producer

2005Man with the Screaming Brain ... Producer

2002Fanalysis ... Producer

2002Hatred Of A Minute ... Producer

2000Jack of All Trades (22 Episodes) ... Producer

1992Army of Darkness ... Co-Producer

1991Lunatics: A Love Story ... Producer

1989Easy Wheels ... Producer

1985Crimewave ... Co-Producer

1984Blood Simple ... Production Consultant

1981The Evil Dead ... Executive Producer

1981Torro. Torro. Torro! ... Producer

1980The Blind Waiter ... Associate Producer

1978Within the Woods ... Executive Producer

1978Acting and Reacting ... Producer

1978Holding It ... Producer

Crew

2019The Dead Don't Die ... Thanks

1984Blood Simple ... Stand In

1979Attack of the Helping Hand! ... Cinematography

Editing

1978Holding It ... Editor

Camera

1977It's Murder! ... Camera Operator