William Campbell obituary

American actor known for his roles in horror films and Star Trek

actor William Campbell, who died aged 87, had a long and varied career in film and television, seeking recognition of their association with several images of horror and low budget the science fiction television series Star Trek. However, although his eyes were hooded and so languid Robert Mitchum and a little calm anarchist Jack Nicholson, entry into the major league stardom eluded him.

Campbell was the first series of Star Trek, in an episode called The Squire of Gothos (1967), which has a field day as General Trelane, a humanoid vain, childish, swinging wildly Moody Happiness and anger. The Trouble with Tribbles (1967), in the second season, Campbell was just as impressive as Koloth, a Klingon, with a beard, bureaucratic, a character revived 27 years later, towards the end of his life working in the Pledge Blood in the series Star Trek. Deep Space Nine (1994)

Born in Newark, New Jersey, studied acting with Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof in the study of the latter in New York before serving in the Pacific with the Navy U. S. during the Second World War. Campbell made his screen debut as a character from the point of release (1950), the second film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have not, with John Garfield. Wearing a "duck tail" hairstyle, fashion in the 1950s, continue to give good top talent support, often steal a scene or two.

Among his first roles were as an unpleasant perjury lawyer trying to help convict an innocent man is defended by Spencer Tracy in The People Against O'Hara (1951), an arrogant rookie baseball his manager (Edward G. Robinson) a headache in the major leagues (1953), and a second agent Riling inexperienced pilot of aging, John Wayne, in the high and mighty (1954). Wise Guy Campbell, a veteran of tough William Demarest, against Confederate prisoners, brought some relief to escape the comic Fort Bravo (1953) before being spotted by the cavalry officer William Holden, and justified the Campbell, 32 years his co-star credit in the lawless man (1955) to be convincing as a young vagabond ("Do not call me baby"), which clings to cowboy Kirk Douglas.

In the same year, Campbell won her first role in the cell 2455, death row, as Caryl Chessman, who was charged with robbery, kidnapping and rape, the first criminal in the United States. UU. sentenced to death without killing anyone. Campbell Chessman is fascinating because it develops from a young bully in school reform, a ruthless gangster in the prison a respected legal mind. Chessman, who was still struggling against his conviction at a time, Campbell and approved the film, hoping it would help you. However, he was executed five years later.

After what was probably his best performance in the film, Campbell has won several roles in B movies and support for a film. An example of the latter was the civil war drama Love Me Tender (1956), in which Elvis Presley made his screen debut. Campbell, who had a resemblance to the king of rock and roll, Elvis plays the brother, and started singing with him we will, although it was called.

years later, Campbell signed a five images with the Corman movie mogul Roger-Z. Perhaps Corman was established Campbell's portrait on the types of off-center. In the Young Riders (1963), Campbell has an arrogant and irresponsible Lotus driver endangers his own life and that of his fellow drivers. At the climax, we discover that it is a sensitive personality and confused. Corman in The Secret Invasion (1964), written by Brother Campbell screenwriter R Wright Campbell, and before The Dirty Dozen for three years he was part of a crew of five prisoners to rescue a hostage by the Nazis Italian general in the Second World War II.

• Corman was first produced by Francis Ford Coppola have credit, Dementia 13 (1963), a quickie horror filmed in Ireland, in which Campbell played a silent sculptor suspected of beheading of two ax . Based on his person creepy, Campbell is an artist crazy trying to steal a picture of Titian's portrait of Terror (1965) and, more significantly, the shedding of blood (also known as Track of the Vampire, 1966), stems of girls and kills them, dropping them in hot wax and then painted.

Campbell appeared in only two functions more as a police officer asked a school teacher (in fact a murderous psychopath), played by Rock Hudson, Roger Vadim in a difficult soft-core satire Maids All Jolie sex in a row (1971) and an Italian gangster blaxploitation film Black Gunn (1972), which can be persuaded to stick to television, where he led a parallel career as a guest star in almost all the major events of 1951, although there is only one series in which he acted, Cannonball (in 39 episodes from 1958 to 1959), on long-haul truckers.

In 1952, he married Judith Immoor Campbell, who later (after her divorce in 1958) claimed to have had affairs with Frank Sinatra and John F Kennedy (1960 to the presidency). As Judith Exner (his second marriage), who wrote a memoir, my story, in 1977, which is based on the power of television series and Beauty (2002), in which Campbell was played by a Canadian actor, Grant Nickalls . "What we had mutual friends could count on one hand," said Mr. Campbell once. "How he has never met the president, I do not know."

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