Bruce Campbell
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Bruce Lorne Campbell (born June 22, 1958) is an American actor, producer, writer and director. He is best known for his starring role as Ash in the Evil Dead trilogy of horror/slapstick movies, and has since become a B-movie icon.
His acting style is an "over-the-top" machismo that lends itself well to roles such as that of Ash Williams, whom Campbell himself has dubbed "an idiot and a jerk like the rest of us". This style is parodied in the film The Majestic where Campbell appears as Roland the Intrepid Explorer in the B movie Sand Pirates of the Sahara, written by Jim Carrey's screenwriter character. Campbell also excels at "reverse acting", a frequent filming technique of Sam Raimi's where action sequences are filmed in reverse of how they will appear in the film. Campbell offers advice about getting into the film industry on his website.
Major Roles
Bruce and Sam Raimi with other family and friends filmed The Evil Dead. Campbell starred and worked behind the camera, receiving a "co-executive producer" credit; Raimi wrote, directed and edited. Following an endorsement by horror writer 'Stephen King' the film slowly began to receive distribution rights. Four years following its original release it was the UK that 1st landed onto this film in a serious manner making it a for a short while the number 1 seller. Following Britains interest America started taking the independant film seriously enough to start its own distribution, spawning two sequels: Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness which was basically a horror tribute to the Three Stooges. Campbell's best-known roles are as Ashley J. "Ash" Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead films, and he has appeared in many of Raimi's films outside of the Evil Dead series, notably including the Spider-Man film series. Campbell often takes on quirky roles, such as Elvis Presley in the film Bubba Ho-Tep, and appears in films that go straight to video or cable TV. Along with Bubba Ho-Tep, Campbell played a supporting role in the 2005 film Sky High, and is starring in the upcoming My Name is Bruce.
Campbell undertakes numerous cameo appearances in films, and is known to pop up in all genres of film, often to serve as a comic relief. He has made cameo appearances in all three Spider-Man films. In Spider-Man, he played the wrestling announcer who dubbed Peter Parker "The Amazing Spider-Man." In Spider-Man 2, he played a snooty usher named Dylan Reid, referred to in the novelization by Peter David, who criticizes Peter Parker's appearance at length before refusing to let him into the theater, thereby causing a rift with Mary Jane. Campbell is extremely proud of this particular cameo, stating that he is the only villain to have thwarted Spider-Man and gotten away with it. His appearance in Spider-Man 3 was as a French maitre d' recruited by Peter Parker to aid in proposing to Mary Jane. He's also voiced the narrator of the games based on the movies.
Comic Books
Bruce's likeness now appears in Dynamite Entertainment's Army of Darkness comic book series as Ash. Ash has even taken on the Marvel universe in the form of the Marvel Zombies.
The official press release of that series
Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness is a Five-Issue Limited Series that will serve as a direct prequel to last year's smash Marvel Zombies series which featured "dynamite" covers by Arthur Suydam, crisp scripts by Robert Kirkman and fantastic art by Sean Philips and colorist June Chung! Marvel Zombies followed the events in Mark Millar's and Greg Land's Ultimate Fantastic Four #24. With the success retailers have had with Marvel Zombies (both the series, the Hard Cover collection going to multiple printings and the Ultimate FF appearances), and the sell out of Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness #1 and Army of Darkness #13 (where Ash made his first appearance on to Earth-2149)