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Bruce Campbell
  • Birth Name:
    Bruce Lorne Campbell
  • Common Name:
    Pete Perkinson, R.O.C. Sandstorm
  • Date of Birth:
    June 22, 1958
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Cancer
  • Place of Birth:
    Birmingham, Michigan, USA
  • Height:
    6' 0"
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Hair Color:
    Brown
  • Eye Color:
    Blue
  • Nationality:
    American
  • Religion:
    Christianity
  • Education:

    Western Michigan University

    Birmingham Groves High School, Birmingham, Michigan

  • Address:
    Jacksonville, Oregon

Family

Bruce Campbell
  • Father:
    Charles Newton Campbell
  • Mother:
    Joanne Louise
  • Brother:
    Don
  • Spouse:
    Christine Deveau - Divorced, Ida Gearon - Present
  • Son:
    Andy
  • Daughter:
    Rebecca

Career

Bruce Campbell
  • Profession:
    Actor
  • Debut:
    1978 : Within the Woods

Awards

Bruce Campbell

2005 : Chainsaw Award, Best Actor for: Bubba Ho-tep (2002)

2005 : International Fantasy Film Award, Best Actor for: Bubba Ho-tep (2002)

2003 : Film Discovery Jury Award, Best Actor
for: Bubba Ho-tep (2002)

Trivia

Bruce Campbell
  • Once worked as a security guard at a beer brewery until a co-worker realized he was in The Evil Dead (1981).
    submitted by - Amit Kher
  • Has expressed an interest in working with Kevin Smith.
    submitted by - Mandy John
  • Auditioned for the role of "Bruce Wayne/Batman" in Batman Forever (1995).
    submitted by - Chotu Dhiman
  • He appeared in every project of Sam Raimi's (including both TV shows) until the mid-'90s, when his scenes were cut from The Quick and the Dead (1995).
    submitted by - Amit Kher
  • #22 on Tropopkin's Top 25 Most Intriguing People [Issue #100]
    submitted by - Amit Kher
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Quotes

Bruce Campbell
  • It seemed that my lot in life was to either have big parts in small films or small parts in big films. - Unknown
    submitted by - Amit Kher
  • Don Coscarelli is a very passionate filmmaker. We got to a few points that we couldn't reconcile. I want to keep our friendship, so we parted ways. So I'm not part of that project. - Unknown
    submitted by - Nicky Status
  • I can't vouch for the script because they never gave us full scripts for Spider-Man (2002). They would only give you the pages, and they all had serial numbers, and if it ever wound up on the Internet, they would sue you and murder you and take your children. - Unknown
    submitted by - suresh kumar
  • If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out. By the sheer act of going there, you're saying, 'I need to go there because this is the only way I can get my movie made.' Baloney! Indiana's the place to make your movie. Pontiac, Michigan. Whatever. Then you're just making it on the merits of the movie. You don't have to have any discussions about what's hip now. Who can we get to do the soundtrack? You can actually put a score to your movie instead of a soundtrack. I get this thing all the tim - Unknown
    submitted by - Sandeep Sandeep Singh
  • Don't aspire to be a B-movie director, you'll be there soon enough. - Unknown
    submitted by - Adline Systems
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Biography

Bruce Campbell
Last Updated: Saturday, August 29, 2009

bruceBruce was born June 22, 1958 (the youngest of 3 brothers) in Royal Oak, Michigan. As a child, Bruce watched "Lost in Space" (1965) on TV, and ran around dressed as Zorro. He got the acting bug at age 8; his dad was performing in local community theater. At 14, Bruce got to play the young prince in "The King and I" and even got to sing. He went on to appear in several community theater productions, including "South Pacific". However, he was also interested in directing, and shot super-8 flicks with a neighborhood pal. Perhaps through fate, he met future director Sam Raimi in a high school drama class in 1975. Soon, along with Sam, and now a bunch of other high school pals, Bruce filmed about 50 super-8 movies. During the summer of 1976, he was an apprentice in northern Michigan at Traverse City's Cherry County Playhouse, a summer-stock company. Bruce worked 18-hour days putting up sets, being assistant stage manager, doing errands, etc.

No money, but it was a learning experience (it was show biz). He attended Western Michigan University and took theater courses. Bruce became a production assistant for a company that made commercials in Detroit. In the early part of 1979, with buddy Sam Raimi, he decided to become a pro filmmaker. Armed with a super-8 horror film Within the Woods (1978) which they showed potential investors, they raised $350,000 to make The Evil Dead (1981) which Bruce co-produced and starred in as "Ash". Four years later, the completed film became the best-selling video of 1983 in England, and New Line Cinema got it a US release. Around this time, he married his first wife, and they had 2 kids. They raised 10 times as much cash for the sequel Evil Dead II (1987) again co-produced by Bruce and starring him as "Ash".

He moved to L.A. In 1990, while filming Mindwarp (1992), he met his future second wife (costume designer Ida Gearon) on the set. In 1992, he rejoined Sam, and Bruce co-produced and starred as "Ash" in the 3rd of the Evil Dead trilogy, Army of Darkness (1992) for Universal Studios. On TV, Bruce directed many episodes of "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (1995). Bruce also acted as the recurring character "Autolycus", the King of Thieves; he portrayed this villain with zest in both "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (1995) and "Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995). Bruce's latest television venture was starring as the title rogue of "Jack of All Trades" (2000). Everybody loves Jack. And everybody's heard of him -- "There ain't a French or pirate rogue who don't know Jack!".

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Bruce Campbell

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