William Campbell: Actor who made his name playing devious and calculating characters
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William Campbell: Actor who made his name playing devious and calculating characters

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Campbell was then given his first starring role, as Caryl Chessman in Cell 2455, Death Row, an exploitative but occasionally poignant account of the life of the petty criminal who was convicted of kidnapping and rape on circumstantial evidence, spent 12 years on San Quentin's Death Row, wrote an autobiography thatbecame a bestseller, and whose case became a worldwide issue amongopponents of capital punishment. Campbell then played a French resistance worker in Corman's The Secret Invasion and much later starred in Blood Bath, a largely incomprehensible horror movie blending newly shot footage with sections of a Yugoslavian vampire film that Corman had acquired. Campbell's second appearance on Star Trek was in "The Trouble with Tribbles", in which he played the Klingon Captain Koloth, beset by cuddly furballs who hate Klingons. William Campbell, actor: born Newark, New Jersey 30 October 1926; married 1952 Judith Immoor, 1960 Barbara Bricker, 1962 Tereza; died Woodland Hills, California 28 April 2011.

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