Bruce Campbell

Campbell has been married twice. He married his first wife, Christine Deveau in 1983. They have two children together, Rebecca and Andy. They both split up just after 6 years of marriage.

In 1991, Campbell married the set and costume designer Ida Gearon, whom he met on the sets of ‘Mindwrap’. Now he lives with her in a small town of Jacksonville, Oregon.

Bruce Campbell was born in Royal Oak, Michigan to Charles Newton Campbell and Joanne Louise. His father was a struggling actor and a travelling billboard inspector while his mother was a housewife.

He was brought up in Birmingham, Michigan. He grew up in the upper-middle class environment and had his childhood home surrounded by woods and nature. He used to play a lot of hockey as a kid and is youngest of the three brothers.

His father supported his desire to act professionally it was in his high school, Wylie E. Groves High School, that Campbell met Sam Raimi and they became close friends and started making movies together.

Campbell went to the Western Michigan University and Sam Raimi pursued his acting career. Sometime later, Campbell and Raimi got together again and started to work on their first ever movie project together, ‘The Evil Dead’.

In 1981, Campbell starred in the cult classic, ‘The Evil Dead’, which was written, directed and edited by Sam Raimi. Rob Tapert was the producer of the movie and Campbell also did the camera work on the movie apart from acting in it.

The movie was not initially a great success but its endorsement by the renowned horror-fiction writer, Stephen King, initiated its popularity. Within 4 years, the movie became super in the UK, subsequently getting more offers for distribution in the US.

After ‘The Evil Dead’, Campbell did some movies with moderate commercial success like: ‘Cleveland Smith: Bounty Hunter’, ‘Going Back’, ‘Crimewave’, ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill…Except’, etc. The Sequel to ‘The Evil Dead’, ‘Evil Dead II’ came out in 1987.

His role in the ‘Evil Dead’ series of ‘Ashley J. “Ash” Williams became a symbolic character of the later 80s and the early 90s. it is said that the ‘horror comedy’ genre was born with this series. His character ‘Ash Williams’ was featured in Marvel comics, owing to its popularity.

From 1988 to 1991 Campbell did movies like: ‘Maniac Cop’, ‘Intruder’, ‘Moontrap’, ‘The Dead Next Door’, ‘Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat’, ‘Maniac Cop 2’, ‘Darkman’, ‘Lunatics: A Love Story’, ‘Waxwork II: Lost in Time’, ‘Mindwrap’, etc.

Campbell has given voiceovers in movies like: ‘Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs’, ‘Cars 2’ and ‘Ant Bully’.

He gave voiceover to video games like: ‘Evil Dead: Hail to the King’, ‘Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick’, ‘Evil Dead: Regeneration’, ‘Tachyon: The Fringe’, ‘Broken Helix’, ‘Megas XLR’, ‘Hellboy: The Science of Evil’, etc.

His autobiography came out in 2002, titled ‘If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor’. It was a New York Times Best Seller.

His second book is a fiction called ‘Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way’. It came out in 2005.

Campbell has an official website where he writes about politics and Hollywood.