William Campbell (Film Actor)

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Timpledon, Miriam T.; Marseken, Susan F.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. His movie career began in 1950, with a small part in the John Garfield film, The Breaking Point. After several years of similar supporting performances in a variety of titles, including as a co-pilot in William Wellman''s The High and the Mighty (1954), he snagged his first starring role in Cell 2455 Death Row (1955), a Columbia Pictures prison cheapie. He played a death row inmate, based loosely on the true story of Caryl Chessman, who staunchly proclaimed his innocence and obtained numerous reprieves over many years until finally being executed. Campbell''s surprisingly powerful performance received generally good notices from critics, but it did very little for his career; his next several roles were again providing support to lead actors, including Love Me Tender (1956) (in which he sang with Elvis Presley) and the 1958 film version of Norman Mailer''s The Naked and the Dead. In 1958, Campbell co-starred in Cannonball, a short-lived television series about truck drivers. After that, it was back to more years of small parts in increasingly lower grade movies.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9786131041341
• ISBN-10: 6131041342
• Artikelnr.: 29875128