Bruce campbell
Bruce campbell
Bruce Campbell is an accomplished actor. His career started at the age of fourteen. Over the years he has appeared in a variety of acting roles, which have made him very well known.
Bruce Campbell is forty-one years old and was born on June 22nd, 1958.
(http:\\www.imdb.com) He is the youngest of three brothers, was born in Royal Oak, Michigan and has two children. He considers himself to have had a normal childhood in that he watched "Lost in Space" on television, dug tunnels in his back yard and ran around dressed up as Zorro. (http:\\www.bruce-campbell.com)
Bruce started taking interest in acting at the age of eight when he saw how much fun his dad had while performing in local community theater. His first official acting job occurred at age fourteen when an actor who was to play the young prince in the "King and I" became ill and he stepped into the role. He went on to appear in several community theater productions and then started to experiment with filmmaking, doing cheezeball super-8 flicks with a neighborhood pal. In 1975 he then met director Sam Raimi in his high school drama class who he became friends with. They made about fifty or so super-8 movies. In 1976 he volunteered as an apprentice in northern Michigan at Traverse City's Cherry County Playhouse - a summer stock company where he worked eighteen hours a day putting up sets, being assistant stage manager, doing errands and so on. He got to work with television actors and considers it his first taste of Hollywood. He then briefly attended Western Michigan University where he took theater courses but dropped out because he felt it got too artsy. For about a year after this he worked as a production assistant for a production company that made commercials in Detroit. This consisted of sweeping out studios, cleaning up camera equipment, and various tasks. It was a good chance for Bruce to learn the technical side of the business rather then just the artsy actor stuff. (Http:\\www.bruce-campbell.com)
Bruce Campbell really took on acting seriously in 1979 when Bruce, Sam, and new associate Rob Tapert put together a short super-8 horror film, "Within...
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