J. Kenneth Campbell

J Kenneth Campbells acting career has taken him from Broadway to feature films and television His many films include Bulworth Ulees Gold Guess Who Mars Attacks and The Abyss He recently completed filming director Kevin Willmotts upcoming feature The Only Good Indian in which Campbell plays a lead role alongside Wes Studi Avatar Last of the Mohicans On television Campbell has appeared in Commander in Chief Frasier Charmed Melrose Place Ally McBeal Picket Fences Matlock LA Law and many other series Campbell was born in Flushing New York in 1947 the second of seven children He was raised on Long Island and graduated from Cheshire Academy in Connecticut It was at The University of Arizona where he discovered his calling Forsaking the security of a college degree he entered The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater to study acting with Sanford Miesner Nonacademic acting students in 1967 became automatically eligible for the Selective Service and in the middle of his second year at the Playhouse Campbell was drafted into the US Army He retaliated by joining the Marines He was wounded in action and after months of recuperation he returned to The Playhouse and finished the program Campbell has worked on stage in film and on television ever since