1. Bruce Lorne Campbell was born on June 22,1958 and is an American actor and filmmaker.
48 Facts About Bruce Campbell
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Bruce Campbell is known best for his role as Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead horror series, beginning with the short movie Within the Woods.
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Bruce Campbell has featured in many low-budget cult movies, such as Crimewave, Maniac Cop, Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat, and Bubba Ho-Tep.
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Bruce Campbell played Sam Axe on the USA Network series Burn Notice and reprised his role as Ash for the Starz series Ash vs Evil Dead.
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Bruce Campbell is known for frequent collaborations with the aforementioned Raimi, his brother Ted, Josh Becker, and Scott Spiegel.
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Bruce Lorne Campbell was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, on June 22,1958, the son of advertising executive and college professor Charles Newton Campbell and homemaker Joanne Louise.
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Bruce Campbell is of English and Scottish ancestry, and has an older brother named Don and an older half-brother named Michael.
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Bruce Campbell's father was an actor and director for local theater.
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Bruce Campbell began acting and making short Super 8 movies with friends as a teenager.
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Bruce Campbell attended Western Michigan University and continued to pursue an acting career.
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Bruce Campbell was drawn in the Marvel Zombie comics as his character, Ash Williams.
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Bruce Campbell is featured in five comics, all in the series Marvel Zombies vs Army of Darkness.
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Bruce Campbell has appeared in several of Raimi's movies other than the Evil Dead series, notably having cameo appearances in the director's Spider-Man film series.
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Bruce Campbell joined the cast of Raimi's movie Darkman and The Quick and the Dead, though having no actual screen time in the latter movie's theatrical version.
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In March 2022, Bruce Campbell was announced to have a cameo in Raimi's Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
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Bruce Campbell had a major voice role for the 2009 animated adaptation of the children's book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and a supporting voice role for Pixar's Cars 2.
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Bruce Campbell produced the 2013 remake of The Evil Dead, along with Raimi and Rob Tapert, appearing in the movie's post-credits scene in a cameo role with the expectation he would reprise that role in Army of Darkness 2.
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Bruce Campbell worked as an executive producer for the 2023 movie Evil Dead Rise.
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Bruce Campbell featured in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
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Bruce Campbell played a lawyer turned bounty hunter who was trying to hunt down John Bly, the man who killed his father.
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Bruce Campbell featured in the television series Jack of All Trades, set on a fictional island occupied by the French in 1801.
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From 1996 to 1997, Bruce Campbell was a recurring guest actor of the television series Ellen as Ed Billik, who becomes Ellen's boss when she sells her bookstore in season four.
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Bruce Campbell is known for his supporting role as the recurring character Autolycus on both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, which reunited him with producer Rob Tapert.
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Bruce Campbell directed a number of episodes of Hercules and Xena, including the Hercules series finale.
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Bruce Campbell obtained the main role of race car driver Hank Cooper for the Disney made-for-television remake of The Love Bug.
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Bruce Campbell had a critically acclaimed dramatic guest role as a grief-stricken detective seeking revenge for his father's murder in a two-part episode of the fourth season of Homicide: Life on the Street.
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Bruce Campbell later played the part of a bigamous demon in The X-Files episode "Terms of Endearment".
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Bruce Campbell co-featured in the television series Burn Notice, which was broadcast from 2007 to 2013 by USA Network.
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Bruce Campbell portrayed Sam Axe, a beer-chugging, former Navy SEAL now working as an unlicensed private investigator and occasional mercenary with his old friend Michael Westen, the show's main character.
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When working undercover, his character frequently used the alias Chuck Finley, which Bruce Campbell later revealed was the name of one of his father's old co-workers.
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Bruce Campbell was the star of a 2011 Burn Notice made-for-television prequel focusing on Sam's Navy SEAL career, titled Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe.
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In 2014, Bruce Campbell played Santa Claus for an episode of The Librarians.
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Bruce Campbell played Ronald Reagan in season 2 of the FX original series Fargo.
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Bruce Campbell is featured as a voice actor for several video games.
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Bruce Campbell provides the voice of Ash in the four games based on the Evil Dead movies series: Evil Dead: Hail to the King, Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick, Evil Dead: Regeneration and Evil Dead: The Game.
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Bruce Campbell has expressed his intent to return to the role in an upcoming Evil Dead animated series.
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Bruce Campbell provided the voice of Ash in Dead by Daylight.
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Bruce Campbell provided voice talent in other titles such as Pitfall 3D: Beyond the Jungle, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, and The Amazing Spider-Man.
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Bruce Campbell provided the voice of main character Jake Logan for the PC game, Tachyon: The Fringe, the voice of main character Jake Burton for the PlayStation game Broken Helix and the voice of Magnanimous for Megas XLR.
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Bruce Campbell voiced the pulp adventurer Lobster Johnson in Hellboy: The Science of Evil and has done voice-over work for the Codemaster's game Hei$t, a game which was announced on January 28,2010, to have been "terminated".
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Bruce Campbell provided the voice of The Mayor for the 2009 movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, the voice of Rod "Torque" Redline in Cars 2, the voice of Himcules in the 2003 Nickelodeon TV series My Life as a Teenage Robot, and the voice of Fugax in the 2006 movie The Ant Bully.
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Bruce Campbell has a voice in the online MOBA game, Tome: Immortal Arena in 2014.
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Bruce Campbell later recorded an audio play adaptation of Make Love with fellow Michigan actors, including longtime collaborator Ted Raimi.
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In late 2016, Bruce Campbell announced that he would be releasing a third book, Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor, which will detail his life from where If Chins Could Kill ended.
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Bruce Campbell maintained a weblog on his official website, where he posted mainly about politics and the movie industry.
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Bruce Campbell married Christine Deveau in 1983; they had two children before divorcing in 1989.
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Bruce Campbell met costume designer Ida Gearon while working on Mindwarp.
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Bruce Campbell is an ordained minister, and has performed marriage ceremonies.