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Billy Campbell is a Actor and Editor American born on 7 july 1959 at Charlottesville (USA)
William Oliver "Billy" Campbell (born July 7, 1959) is an American film and television actor. In television, he is best known for his roles as Rick Sammler on Once and Again, as Det. Joey Indelli on Crime Story, as Jordan Collier on The 4400, and as Dr. Jon Fielding on the Tales of the City Miniseries. He is also known for his recurring role as Luke Fuller in Dynasty which was his first prominent role. His most notable films include The Rocketeer, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Enough. He portrayed Darren Richmond on the AMC television series The Killing, and played Dr. Alan Farragut in the SyFy series Helix.
During the filming of 1991's The Rocketeer, he began a romance with co-star Jennifer Connelly, 11 years his junior. They were involved for five years before they broke up in 1996.
Campbell is a rugby enthusiast, having played rugby with the Chicago Lions RFC and the Santa Monica Rugby Club.
A major reason that Campbell sought out the role of Jordan Collier in the TV series The 4400 is filming was located in Vancouver, Canada. When filming he is drawn to locations. To quote Campbell on Vancouver: "Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day." "...the city of my dreams: Vancouver."
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Campbell was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. He attended Fork Union Military Academy and Western Albemarle High School. His parents divorced when he was two years old. He has volunteered as an actor with the Young Storytellers Program. He is good friends with actor and Crime Story co-star Stephen Lang. Campbell portrayed General George Pickett in the 2003 film Gods and Generals, a part previously played by Lang in the 1993 film Gettysburg in which Campbell also co-starred.During the filming of 1991's The Rocketeer, he began a romance with co-star Jennifer Connelly, 11 years his junior. They were involved for five years before they broke up in 1996.
Campbell is a rugby enthusiast, having played rugby with the Chicago Lions RFC and the Santa Monica Rugby Club.
A major reason that Campbell sought out the role of Jordan Collier in the TV series The 4400 is filming was located in Vancouver, Canada. When filming he is drawn to locations. To quote Campbell on Vancouver: "Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day." "...the city of my dreams: Vancouver."
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The Scribbler (2014)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Katie Cassidy Rodgers, Garret Dillahunt, Eliza Dushku, Michelle Trachtenberg, Sasha Grey, Kunal Nayyar
Roles Sinclair
Rating52%
Suki, a young woman suffering from multiple personality disorder, moves into Juniper Tower, an apartment complex that serves as a halfway house for mental patients who don't need to be institutionalized any longer, but are not completely cured yet. Suki has been given an experimental device that lets her perform a procedure known as The Siamese Burn on herself. The machine is supposed to "burn" all her extra personalities until she only has one left.
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (2014)
, 1h27Directed by Nicholas Sean Gomez(Nick Gomez)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Crime, Slasher
Actors Christina Ricci, Clea DuVall, Billy Campbell, Shawn Doyle, Sara Botsford, Gregg Henry
Roles Andrew Jennings
Rating58%
Based on the true story of Lizzie Borden, a Sunday School teacher who lived with her father Andrew, her stepmother Abby, and her older sister Emma in a small house in Fall River, Massachusetts, the film depicts a hot summer day in August 1892 in the Borden home where Lizzie comes across the grisly murder scene of her father who was brutally killed with a hatchet. After local law enforcement responds to the scene, the body of Abby Borden is discovered upstairs, also killed with an ax. As the case progresses, the evidence gathered by the authorities seems to point to Lizzie as their prime suspect. Lizzie's lawyer Andrew Jennings, however, maintains that a woman could not commit such a cruel act; arguing it is far too gruesome a crime for any woman to commit. Regardless, Lizzie is put on trial for the murders and the courtroom case makes headlines in newspapers throughout the country. Newspaper accounts state the crime to be the most infamous of the century. Eventually, the jury finds Lizzie innocent of all charges. The film ends with a fight between Emma and Lizzie, in which Lizzie asks Emma if she wanted know the truth. Lizzie then whispers inaudibly into Emma's ear while a series of flashbacks are shown in which Lizzie murders their stepmother and father. It is heavily implied that Lizzie Borden was in fact their murderer, and a visibly upset Emma leaves the room. Lizzie walks outside and hears three children jump roping to the famous nursery rhyme: "Lizzie Borden took an ax/ And gave her mother forty wacks/ And when she saw what she had done/ She gave her father forty-one." Emma is then shown leaving the house, never to return.
Copperhead (2013)
, 2hDirected by Ronald F. Maxwell
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Billy Campbell, Angus Macfadyen, Peter Fonda, Augustus Prew, Lucy Boynton, François Arnaud
Roles Abner Beech
Rating56%
In a rural community upstate New York in 1862, farmer Abner Beech is a Northern antiwar Democrat. While his neighbors take up the Union cause in the ongoing American Civil War, Beech believes that coercion in resisting the secession of the southern states is unconstitutional, and gradually becomes more and more harassed for his views, derisively called a "Copperhead". His son, Thomas Jefferson Beech, enlists in the Union Army. Beech also arouses the ire of militant abolitionist Jee Hagadorn, whose daughter Esther (Lucy Boynton) loves Jeff.
The Disappeared (2012)
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Billy Campbell, Shawn Doyle, Brian Downey, Ryan Doucette
Roles Mannie
Rating60%
After their fishing boat sinks, six men in two small dories find themselves stranded in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. They have little food and fresh water. The film follows their physical and mental fatigue as the days pass and they try to get home again.
Fat Kid Rules The World (2012)
Directed by Matthew Lillard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Matt O'Leary, Billy Campbell, Jacob Wysocki, Lili Simmons, Matthew Lillard, Russell Hodgkinson
Roles Mr. Billings
Rating64%
17-year-old Troy Billings is overweight and suicidal. He's saved by Marcus from jumping in front of a bus and begins an uneasy friendship with Marcus. Marcus then enlists the musically challenged Troy to become the drummer in a new punk rock band. As Troy's relationship with Marcus grows, Troy's father becomes increasingly concerned about his son's new friendship.
, 3hDirected by Ernie Barbarash
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action
Themes Disaster films
Actors Billy Campbell, Marla Sokoloff, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Rooker, Stacy Keach, Carmen Argenziano
Roles Detective Jack Crowe
Rating42%
Le Dr Lehman, un astronome, et son assistante, Imogene O'Neill, découvrent que l'astéroïde 114 Kassandra est entré en collision avec une comète et que l'astéroïde se dirige vers la Terre. S'il entre en collision avec la Terre, ce sera la fin du monde. Dans le même temps, les débris de l'astéroïde frappent les grandes villes du monde. Au milieu du chaos, le détective Jack Crowe recherche son ex-partenaire psychopathe, Stark, qui cherche à se venger en tuant Jack, le père de Jack et sa fille.
The Circuit (2008)
, 1h28Directed by Peter Werner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors Michelle Trachtenberg, Billy Campbell, Paul Rae, Drew Fuller, Maurice Dean Wint, Tommy Lioutas
Roles Al Shines
Rating50%
A rising stock-car racer (Michelle Trachtenberg) competes against her estranged father and her new beau (Drew Fuller).
Ghost Town (2008)
, 1h42Directed by David Koepp
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Ghost films
Actors Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni, Greg Kinnear, Billy Campbell, Kristen Wiig, Aasif Mandvi
Roles Richard
Rating66%
The film begins as married New York City businessman Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) is accidentally killed while trying to buy an apartment for his mistress. Shortly afterward, cynical dentist Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) has a near-death experience while under general anesthetic during a colonoscopy. When he recovers, he is able to see and communicate with ghosts who populate the area. The ghosts annoy Bertram by asking him to help them with personal business that was left unfinished when they died. Frank promises to keep the other ghosts away if Bertram will break up an engagement between Frank's widow Gwen (Leoni), a professional Egyptologist, and Richard (Billy Campbell), a human-rights lawyer who Frank says is dishonest. Bertram eventually agrees to the deal and tries to woo Gwen away from Richard. Bertram's past rudeness to Gwen makes this difficult, but he attracts her interest by analyzing the teeth of a mummified Egyptian Pharaoh that she has been studying.
Gods and Generals (2003)
, 3h34Directed by Ronald F. Maxwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Jeff Daniels, Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall, Kevin Conway, C. Thomas Howell, Jeremy London
Roles Maj. Gen. George Pickett
Rating62%
The film centers on the life of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, the God-fearing and militarily brilliant yet eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point when Jackson, while on a night ride with his staff to plan the next day's battle, is accidentally shot by his own soldiers in May 1863 while commanding at the Battle of Chancellorsville. It also follows Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Winfield Scott Hancock. Chamberlain is a Maine college professor who is appointed a Lieutenant Colonel and becomes second-in-command of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The film prominently features the Battles of Bull Run (1st Manassas), Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. The film's original running time clocked in at nearly 6 hours (much like the original running time of Gettysburg). The longer version featured the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) as well as an entire plot following the American actor and future assassin John Wilkes Booth and his colleague Henry Harrison (from Gettysburg).
Love Actually (2003)
, 2h15Directed by Richard Curtis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Christmas films, La provence, Films about marriage
Actors Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Rory MacGregor, Laura Linney
Rating75%
The film begins with a voiceover from David (Hugh Grant) commenting that whenever he gets gloomy with the state of the world he thinks about the arrivals terminal at Heathrow Airport, and the pure uncomplicated love felt as friends and families welcome their arriving loved ones. David's voiceover also relates that all the messages left by the people who died on the 9/11 planes were messages of love and not hate. The film then tells the 'love stories' of many people:
Enough (2002)
, 1h55Directed by Michael Apted
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about families, Feminist films, Films about domestic violence
Actors Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Juliette Lewis, Dan Futterman, Fred Ward, Tessa Allen
Roles Mitch Hiller
Rating58%
The film begins in a Los Angeles diner where a waitress named Slim (Jennifer Lopez) works with her best friend, Ginny (Juliette Lewis). She receives romantic advances from a customer who teases her about her name. Another man in the diner, Mitch Hiller (Billy Campbell) reveals that the customer had made a bet that he would be able to convince Slim to sleep with him. Soon after, Slim falls in love with and marries Mitch, and they have a child named Gracie (Tessa Allen). Years later, Slim finds out Mitch has been cheating on her with a woman named Darcelle. She confronts him and he admits it, but also insisting Darcelle means nothing to him. Slim becomes angry and threatens to leave, which enrages Mitch who becomes violent, slapping and punching her in the face. He gives her a warning, saying that he makes the money and gets to do whatever he likes, implying he wants an open marriage. Mitch refuses to stop his affair unless she wants to fight him. The next day, Slim confides in Mitch's mother (Janet Carroll), she asks her what she did to make Mitch angry, implying he has a history of physical abuse. Ginny advises Slim to leave Mitch, but Slim doesn't want to hurt Gracie. She then goes to pick up Gracie from school, only to discover Mitch had already picked her up. Panicked that Mitch might have left town with her, she calls Mitch, who tells her that he took Gracie to the zoo.
In the Beginning (2000)
, 3h9Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Martin Landau, Jacqueline Bisset, Billy Campbell, Eddie Cibrian, Diana Rigg, Fred Weller
Roles Moses
Rating62%
In the Beginning is the story about the travels and travails of the tribe of Abraham (Martin Landau). Set around the year 2000 B.C., the narrative opens with "Genesis 12," wherein the LORD has told Abraham and company to leave their country to a land of milk and honey to be named later. In order to keep up the morale of his followers while on the road, Abraham gives a sermon that sums up God's creation of the universe. By illustrating this sermon with stock footage and special-effects shots, the producers attempt to make a connection between sermons of old and popular entertainments of today. From there, the twists and turns of the Old Testament are treated like a soap opera. Family dramas take center stage, whether it's God testing Abraham by telling him to kill his son in sacrifice, Joseph gaining power in Egypt after being sold to slave traders by his brothers, or one of the many other stories of brothers fighting (Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, etc.). Many events are visualized such as the plagues and the parting of the Red Sea, to name but two.
Max Q: Emergency Landing (1998)
, 1h31Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Transport films, Aviation films, Space opera
Actors Billy Campbell, Paget Brewster, Ned Vaughn, Geoffrey Blake, Tasha Smith, Kevin McNulty
Roles Clay Jarvis
Rating46%
Rounders (1998)
, 2h1Directed by John Dahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Jeu, Poker, Buddy films
Actors Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Turturro, Famke Janssen, Gretchen Mol, John Malkovich
Roles Eisenberg
Rating72%
Gifted poker player Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) loses his entire $30,000 bankroll in a hand of Texas hold'em against Teddy "KGB" (John Malkovich), a Russian mobster who runs an illegal underground poker room. Shaken, Mike decides to concentrate on law school while promising his girlfriend and fellow law student, Jo (Gretchen Mol) that he will not play poker anymore. Mentor and fellow rounder Joey Knish (John Turturro) offers him a part-time job driving a delivery truck to make ends meet.
Menno's Mind (1997)
, 1h35Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Films about computing
Actors Billy Campbell, Stephanie Romanov, Corbin Bernsen, Michael Dorn, Robert Picardo, Bruce Campbell
Roles Menno
Rating44%