J. Kenneth Campbell (born July 22, 1947) is an American film, stage, and television actor who has been cast in over 80 roles. He was born in Flushing,

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. Campbell studied acting under theatrical fight director

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, and was an acting instructor himself at the

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Career

Television

Campbell has made several appearances in television shows, made-for-TV movies, miniseries, and specials. Campbell appeared on the daytime soap operas '' Another World'' and '' Search for Tomorrow'' in the 1980s. He also had guest appearances on several popular TV series through the years as well, including: ''

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'', '' The Rookies'' and ''

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'' in the 1970s. In the 1980s, he appeared in '' Spenser: For Hire'', '' Matlock'' and ''

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''. The 1990s saw him appearing in popular series ''

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'', '' Touched by an Angel'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Then in the 2000s, he landed guest roles in '' Diagnosis Murder'', ''

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'' and '' Frasier''.

Stage

On stage, Campbell played the Viscount de Valvert in the 1973 musical ''

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'', and appeared in ''The Philadelphia Story'', which ran from 1980-81 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. In 1981 he played Macduff in the

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opera ''

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'', also at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. He starred as

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in '' A Man for All Seasons'' in 1986–87, at the

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, as part of the

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. His Broadway credits included ''The Boys of Winter'' (1985), ''The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial'' (1983), ''The Philadelphia Story'' (1908), ''The Freedom of the City'' (1974), and ''Cyrano'' (1973). In 2017, Campbell portrayed President Lyndon Baines Johnson in an Actors' Playhouse production of ''All the Way'' in Miami.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, J. Kenneth Living people American male film actors American male stage actors American male television actors People from Queens, New York 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors 1947 births