Bill Campbell is an American film and television actor, known for his roles in such projects as Dynasty, Rocketeer, Enough Enough, Four Thousand Four Hundreds, The Murder of Lincoln, and others. In the article, we will pay attention to his biography and the most popular projects with the participation of the actor.
Biography
Bill was born in 1959 in the American town of Charlottesville (Virginia). Parents divorced when he was two years old, therefore, in childhood, the guy often visited Chicago, where his father moved. Bill attended Western Albemarle Community High School, and after that entered the Fork Union Military Academy for Men, located in Virginia.
Participation in soap operas
Bill Campbell began his acting career in 1984, when he first starred in one episode of the American sitcom of the NBC channel "Family Ties" (1982-1989), and then got a role in the soap opera of the ABC channel "Dynasty" (1981-1989). He played the role of Luke Fuller, the new employee of the PR department of ColbyCo, hired in the third season by socialite Alexis Carrington Colby.
From 1986 to 1988, the actor starred in the crime drama Chuck Adamson and Gustav Reininger “Crime Story” (1986-1988), which played detective Joey Indeli, a member of a special squad created by police lieutenant Mike Torelo to fight gangster gang Ray Luca, who terrorized streets of Chicago in the 1960s. He got the main role of Cliff Sakond (a pilot with a jetpack on his back) in the fantastic action movie "Rocketeer", filmed by Joe Johnston in 1991. A year later, he played Quincy Morris - a wealthy traveler from the United States - in the horror film Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula", based on the novel by Bram Stoker.
The sanctuary of minds
Photographer Delbert Mosley, in whose hands fell a film indicating the abduction of a person by an alien race, actor Bill Campbell played in the comedy television movie Sam Irwin's "There" (1995).
The role of Steve Hunter - a guy whose personal life has been trying to establish Cupid for a long time (but so far unsuccessfully) - went to Peter Shayner's comedy melodrama Love Node (1995).
Programmer Menno from the Vault Club, he played in John Kroll’s sci-fi thriller Battle of the Wits (1997). And in the same year appeared in the image of the American intelligence officer Harrison in the adventure film Duncan McLachlan "The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo."
Together with Jennifer Lopez, Bill Campbell replenished the main cast of the thriller Michael Apted “Enough Is Enough For Me” (2002).
The role of George Pickett, an officer in the army of the Confederate States of the Civil War, was played in the military drama by Ron Maxwell, “Gods and Generals” (2003).
He played the serial killer Ted Bundy in the biographical drama by Paul Shapiro “The Stranger Beside Me” (2003).
And from 2004 to 2007, he participated in the filming of the sci-fi drama of the CBS channel “4400” (2004-2007), in which he played Jordan Collier, a major real estate dealer who once disappeared, and a year later returned with forty-four hundred other people.
City of Fat Boys
In 2008, Bill Campbell played the role of Richard's lawyer in David Cappe's fantasy comedy Ghost Town.
He became a member of the main cast of the drama "Almost Kings", filmed by Philip J. Flores in 2010.
Got one of the main roles in the comedy film Matthew Lillard's "Fat Boy Rule the World" (2012).
He played Abraham Lincoln (the sixteenth president of America) in the biographical drama of Adrian Moat's “The Assassination of Lincoln” (2013).
And the role of the northern anti-war democrat Abner Beach was played in the drama of Ron Maxwell's Shchitomordniki (2013).
From 2011 to 2014, Bill Campbell played Darren Richmond, a senior politician and mayor of Seattle, in the detective series AMC's Murder (2011-2014). The role of Alan Farragut, a scientist investigating the outbreak of the virus in the Arctic, was performed throughout all 26 episodes of the SyFy science fiction drama Spiral (2014-2015). And as detective John Cardinal, who is leading the murder case of 13-year-old Katie Pine, she has been involved in the filming of the crime drama Audrey Nylon Cardinal since 2017.
There is no information yet about the start of production of the next film with Bill Campbell. But it is known that the next project will be called Breaking Code, its director will be Jayre Lively, and the actor himself will get the main role in it.