Gizmodo: Bruce Campbell Officially Retires From Playing Ash Williams in All Future ‘Evil Dead’ Projects
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Bruce Campbell
Bruce Lorne Campbell is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for portraying Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead horror series. He has also featured in many low-budget cult movies, such as Crimewave (1985), Maniac Cop (1988), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989), and Bubba Ho-Tep (2002).
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entertainment · American actor and filmmaker (born 1958) · actor · voice actor · film producer · writer · film director · screenwriter · camera operator · film actor · television actor · also Bruce Campbell, Bruce Lorne Campbell, Campbell
Born 22 June 1958 · Q309932
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2026· 4 entries
AOL: Bruce Campbell’s Latest Evil Dead Update May Crush Fans’ Hopes
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Campbell announced on social media that he was diagnosed with "a type of cancer that's 'treatable' not 'curable'"
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Released a trailer for it via YouTube
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2021· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “A video shows former NFL player Bruce Campbell fighting in a Walmart.” Miscaptioned.
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PolitiFact rated the claim ““Former Las Vegas Raiders offensive tackle Bruce Campbell involved in altercation.”” False.
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2015· 1 entry
And was renewed by the cable channel for second and third seasons, before being cancelled
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2014· 1 entry
Campbell played Santa Claus for an episode of The Librarians
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2001· 1 entry
An issue of the popular comic series The Hire, and comic book adaptations of his Man with the Screaming Brain
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “Night at the B Movies”.
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1958· 2 entries
Born 1958-06-22.
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The son of advertising executive and college professor Charles Newton Campbell and homemaker Joanne Louise (née Pickens)
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