Bruce Campbell
Born: 1958-06-22 in Birmingham, Michigan, USA
Known For: Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce Campbell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2028
- Evil Dead Wrath ... (Executive Producer)
2026
- Evil Dead Burn ... (Executive Producer)
- Ernie and Emma as Ernie
2025
- A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas as Owl (voice)
2024
- Hysteria! as Chief Dandridge
- Dinner with Leatherface as Self
2023
- Evil Dead Rise as Ash (voice) (uncredited)
- Discontinued as Self - Host
- The SF Sketchfest Roast of Bruce Campbell as Himself
- Other Men's Careers as Self
2022
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Pizza Poppa
- Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Self - Host / Pizza Poppa
- Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called as Soap Opera Actor on TV Screen (archive footage)
- Hollywood Signs as Self
- My Southern Family Christmas as Everett Bergeron
- 18½ as Richard Nixon (voice)
2021
2020
- Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time as Self
- Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi as Self
- Hail to the Deadites as Self
2019
- The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs as Self
- The Dead Don't Die ... (Thanks)
- The Last Kids on Earth as Chef (voice)
- Ripley's Believe It or Not! as Narrator
- All Hail the Popcorn King! as Self
2018
- A.P. Bio as John Griffin
- Eli Roth's History of Horror as Self
- Lodge 49 as Gary Green
2017
- Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure as King Edmund (voice)
- To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story as Self
- Cult of Terror as Self - Actor
- Highly Functional as Chili Youngfield
2016
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
- Ash vs Evil Dead as Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams
- The Escort as Charles
- Last Fan Standing
- Medieval Times: The Making of "Army of Darkness" as Self
2014
- Fargo as Ronald Reagan
- The Librarians as Santa
- Doc of the Dead as Self
- Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist as Self
2013
- Evil Dead as Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams (uncredited)
- Oz the Great and Powerful as Winkie Gate Keeper
2012
- 1600 Penn as Doug Gilchrist
- The Color of Time as Goody
- Addicted to Fame as Carl Greig (archive footage)
- Kingdom Come as Self
2011
- Impractical Jokers as Self
- Cars 2 as Rod 'Torque' Redline (voice)
- Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe as Sam Axe
- Swallowed Souls: The Making of 'Evil Dead 2' as Self
- Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder as Self
- The Walking Dead Girls as Self
2010
- Conan as Self
2009
- Archer as McGinley (voice)
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs as Mayor Shelbourne (voice)
- White on Rice as Muramoto (voice)
- Heart of Dorkness: Behind the Scenes of 'My Name Is Bruce' as Self
2008
- Memories of Moab as Self
2007
- Spider-Man 3 as Maître D'
- Burn Notice as Sam Axe
- El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters as Chicken Bittle (voice)
- My Name Is Bruce as Bruce Campbell
- Life After Dead: The Ladies of the Evil Dead as Self
- One by One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead as (archive footage)
- The Evil Dead: Treasures from the Cutting Room Floor as Self
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force Eighty Minutes of a Whole Nother Movie as Chicken Bittle (voice)
- The Ladies of the Evil Dead Meet Bruce Campbell
2006
- Psych as Ashford Simpson
- The Replacements
- The Ant Bully as Fugax (voice)
- The Woods as Joe Fasulo
- Touch the Top of the World as Ed Weihenmayer
2005
- Sky High as Coach Boomer
- Alien Apocalypse as Ivan
- Man with the Screaming Brain as William Cole
- The Perfect Scary Movie as Self
2004
- Spider-Man 2 as Snooty Usher
- Megas XLR as Magnaminous (voice)
- The Ladykillers as Humane Society Worker (uncredited)
- 100 Scariest Movie Moments as Self
- Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing as Self
- Comic Book: The Movie as Bruce Campbell
- Bench Pressley as Bench Pressley
2003
- Intolerable Cruelty as Soap Opera Actor on TV (uncredited)
- Timequest as William Roberts
2002
- Spider-Man as Ring Announcer
- Serving Sara as Gordon Moore
- Bubba Ho-tep as Elvis Presley / Sebastian Haff
- Terminal Invasion as Jack
- Masters of Horror as Self
- Hatred Of A Minute as Soap Actor on TV (uncredited)
- Fanalysis as Self
2001
- The Legend of Tarzan as Max Liebling (voice)
- The Majestic as Roland the Intrepid Explorer
- Hubert's Brain as Thompson (voice)
2000
- Jack of All Trades as Jack Stiles / Daring Dragoon
- The Making of 'Evil Dead II' or The Gore the Merrier as Self / Ash
- Icebreaker as Carl Greig
1999
- From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money as Barry
- The Men Behind the Army as Narrator
1998
- Charmed as FBI Agent Jackman
- V.I.P. ... (Director)
- Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure as Pierce Thomas 'PT' Madison
- La Patinoire as Actor
1997
- Timecop
- The Love Bug as Hank Cooper
- McHale's Navy as Virgil
- Running Time as Carl
- Menno's Mind as Mick Dourif
- In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory as Jeff Erickson
1996
- Fargo as Soap Opera Actor on TV (uncredited)
- Escape from L.A. as Surgeon General of Beverly Hills
- Tornado! as Jake Thorne
- Assault on Dome 4 as Alex Windham
1995
- Xena: Warrior Princess as Autolycus
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys as Autolycus
- The Quick and the Dead as Wedding Shemp
- American Gothic
- Congo as Charles Travis
- The Demolitionist as Raffle Winner (uncredited)
1994
- Ellen as Ed Billik
- The Hudsucker Proxy as Smitty
1993
- The X-Files as Wayne Weinsider
- Homicide: Life on the Street as Jake Rodzinski
- Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as Bill Church Jr.
- The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. as Brisco County, Jr.
- Eddie Presley as Asylum Attendant
1992
- Army of Darkness as Ash
- Waxwork II: Lost in Time as John Loftmore
- The Nutt House ... (Screenplay)
- Mindwarp as Stover
1991
- Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat as Van Helsing
- Lunatics: A Love Story as Ray
1990
- Darkman as Final Shemp
- Maniac Cop 2 as Jack Forrest
1989
- Intruder as Officer Howard
- Easy Wheels ... (Producer)
- Moontrap as Ray Tanner
- The Dead Next Door as Raimi / Cmdr. Carpenter (voice) (uncredited)
1988
- The Incredibly Strange Film Show as Self
- Maniac Cop as Jack Forrest
1987
- Evil Dead II as Ash
1985
- Blood Simple ... (Stand In)
- Crimewave as Renaldo 'The Heel'
- Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except as Video Newscaster (uncredited)
- The Sappy Sap
1984
- Going Back as Brice
1982
- The Evil Dead as Ash
- Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter as Cleveland Smith
1981
1980
- Stryker's War as Jack Stryker
- The Blind Waiter as Harry
1979
- Knots Landing as Joel Benson
- Within the Woods as Bruce
- Attack of the Helping Hand! as Helping Hand
1978
- Holding It
- Acting and Reacting as Maury
1977
- The Final Round as Promoter
1976
- James Bombed in "Here Today... Gun Tomorrow" as James Bombed
1975
- The James Hoffa Story as Jimmy Hoffa
- I'll Never Heil Again
1974
- Curse of the Werewolf as The Hunter
- No Dough Boys
- Half-Wits-Holiday as Sappington the Butler
- The Singing Nutzs
- All the World's a Stooge
1972
- Oedipus Rex as Kreon