Bruce Campbell

He featured in the television series Jack of All Trades, set on a fictional island occupied by the French in 1801.

Campbell was also credited as co-executive producer, among others.

Bruce Lorne Campbell (born June 22, 1958) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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 (née Pickens).

He is of English and Scottish ancestry, and has an older brother named Don and an older half-brother named Michael.

His father was also an actor and director for local theater.

Campbell began acting and making short Super 8 movies with friends as a teenager.

After meeting future moviemaker Sam Raimi while the two attended Wylie E. Groves High School, they became good friends and collaborators.

Campbell attended Western Michigan University and continued to pursue an acting career.

He 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 (1978).

Campbell and Raimi collaborated with a 30-minute Super 8 version of the first Evil Dead movie, titled Within the Woods (1978), which was initially used to attract investors.

He and Raimi got together with family and friends to begin working on The Evil Dead (1981).

While featuring as the protagonist, Campbell also participation with the production of the movie, receiving a co-executive producer credit.

Raimi wrote, directed, and edited the movie, while Rob Tapert produced.

After an endorsement by horror author Stephen King, the movie slowly began to receive attention and offers for distribution.

Four years after its original release, it became the most popular movie in the UK.

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).

It was then distributed in the United States, resulting in the sequels Evil Dead II (1987) and Army of Darkness (1992).

Campbell was also drawn in the Marvel Zombie comics as his character, Ash Williams.

He is featured in five comics, all in the series Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness.

In them, he fights alongside the Marvel heroes against the heroes and people who have become zombies (deadites) while in search of the Necronomicon (Book of the Names of the Dead).

Campbell also played as Coach Boomer in the movie “Sky High”.

He 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.

Campbell also 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.

In March 2022, Campbell was announced to have a cameo in Raimi's Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Campbell often performs quirky roles, such as Elvis Presley for the movie Bubba Ho-Tep.

Along with Bubba Ho-Tep, he played a supporting role in Maniac Cop and Maniac Cop 2, and spoofed his career in the self-directed My Name is Bruce.

Campbell had the main roles of 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).

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 the aforementioned Raimi, his brother Ted, Josh Becker, and Scott Spiegel.

Other mainstream movies for Campbell include supporting or featured roles in the Coen Brothers movie The Hudsucker Proxy, the Michael Crichton adaptation Congo, the movie version of McHale's Navy, Escape From L.A. (the sequel to John Carpenter's Escape From New York), the Jim Carrey drama The Majestic and the 2005 Disney movie Sky High.

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).

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.

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.

The next year, the comedy metal band Psychostick released a song titled "Bruce Campbell" on their album IV: Revenge of the Vengeance that pays a comedic tribute to his past roles.

Campbell worked as an executive producer for the 2023 movie Evil Dead Rise.

Other than cinema, Campbell has appeared in a number of television series.

He featured in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. a boisterous science fiction comedy western created by Jeffrey Boam and Carlton Cuse that played for one season.

He played a lawyer turned bounty hunter who was trying to hunt down John Bly, the man who killed his father.

He also appeared in The Escort (2015).