Alan
Campbell
Biography
Full name: Bruce Alan
Campbell
born: 22. April 1957 in
Homestead Florida USA
1987 married with actress Nova Bell (divorced)
Girl friend: actress
and singer Lauren Kennedy
Filmography
A Simple Wish (1997) as
Tony Sable
Rose Against the Odds (1995) TV
Dallas Doll (1994)
Jake and the Fatman (1987 - 1992) TV Series as Derek Mitchell
Weekend Warriors (1986)
Threes a Crowd (1984) TV Series as Ez Taylor
Red Flag: The Ultimate Game (1981) TV
TV Guest Appearances
Matlock (1986) The Don as Palmer
Other Works
Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis
1994 - 1997 LA and NYC at the side of Glenn Close.
For this appearance he had been nominated for a Tony Award.
1998 Concert version Bells are Ringing
1999 Avow
2001- 2002 Broadway
Tenors
2002-2003 Contact
This tall, lanky blond actor-singer-dancer who has achieved success on
television and the stage, co-starring in a long-running CBS crime series
("Jake and the Fatman") and earning a 1995 Tony nomination as the
gigolo screenwriter Joe Gillis in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicalization of
"Sunset Boulevard". 5 Native Floridian Alan Campbell actually began
his career as a rock musician. While still in high school, he and his band
performed at local clubs and conventions. Although he enrolled at Tulane as a
pre-med student, the limelight proved too alluring and Campbell ended up
performing professionally. Returning to his home state, he caught the attention
of noted choreographer June Taylor who in turn recommended him to singer Wayne
Newton. Within weeks of graduating college, Campbell found himself in Las Vegas
assisting in the creation and staging of Newton's nightclub act. For the next
two years, he appeared on stage 18 times per week singing, dancing and playing
numerous musical instruments. A node on his vocal cords required him to abandon
the strenuous performing schedule, so he decamped to Hollywood to try his luck
as an actor. 5 Shortly after arriving in L.A., Campbell landed his first
prominent role in the TV-movie "Red Flag: The Ultimate Game" (CBS,
1981). A role on the NBC daytime serial "Another World" took the
actor to the East Coast and he soon began to dabble in theater, appearing Off-Broadway
in "Boogie Woogie Rumble of a Dream Deferred" in 1982 and later at
Washington, DC's Ford Theatre in "On Shiloh Hill". The West Coast
beckoned again when Campbell was cast as the laid-back surfer chef E Z Taylor
on the ABC spin-off sitcom "Three's a Crowd" (1984-85), starring John
Ritter. After racking up guest appearances on several sitcoms and dramas, he
returned to regular series work as Derek Mitchell, the wide-eyed assistant to
William Conrad's attorney J L 'Fatman' McCabe on the popular detective series
"Jake and the Fatman" (CBS, 1987-92). 5 Within a year of the series'
demise, Campbell had landed the role that would make him a matinee idol to
theatergoers. In a bold and unprecedented move, the producers of the musical
version of "Sunset Boulevard" had planned to open a company in L.A.
before the London version transferred to Broadway. The critical reaction to the
London production, however, was mixed while the Los Angeles one was better
received. The producers then took the unusual step of deciding to scrap plans
to take the London cast (headed by Patti LuPone and Kevin Anderson) to Broadway
and instead allow the California cast (Glenn Close and Campbell) to open the
show in NYC. The 1994-95 Broadway musical season was fairly dismal and
"Sunset Boulevard" stood out as the only new successful hit. Campbell
essayed the role of Joe Gillis (William Holden's film role) and got to deliver
the jazz-inflected title number at the start of the second act. Although some
felt he lacked the requisite sex appeal and projected too sullen a persona,
Campbell emerged as a viable musical theater lead. He remained with the show
for its entire three-year run, eventually playing opposite Betty Buckley and
Elaine Paige as well. 5 Now a bona fide musical star, Campbell opted to explore
other challenges. A small role in "A Simple Wish" (1997) did nothing
to jump-start a film career so the actor returned to the stage to co-star in
the 1999 world premiere of Lanford Wilson's drama "Book of Days". The
following year, Campbell was back on the boards in NYC playing a Catholic
priest who unsurprisingly refuses to perform a same sex union in the
Off-Broadway production "Avow".
