Bruce Campbell

Producer, director and actor

In 1979, with his Detroit friends, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, Bruce raised $350,000 for a low-budget film, Evil Dead, in which he starred and co-executive produced. Completed piecemeal over four years, the film first gained notoriety in England where it became the best-selling video of 1983, beating out The Shining. After its appearance at Cannes, where Stephen King dubbed it “the most ferociously original horror film of the year,” New Line Cinema stepped forward to release Evil Dead in the U.S.

Later Bruce rejoined his Detroit colleagues to star and co-produce the second and third films in the Evil Dead trilogy, completing twelve years of work on the cult favorite. This rough-and-tumble background was a plus as Bruce made his foray into television, with roles on the hit shows Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Homicide, X-Files and ABC's Emmy-nominated, Ellen. He currently stars as Sam Axe on the hit TV show Burn Notice.

But Bruce never abandoned his film roots. Some if his movie roles include John Carpenter's Escape from LA, Paramount's romantic comedy, Serving Sara, Jim Carrey's The Majestic, Sam Raimi's blockbuster Spider-Man series, as well as the title role in MGM's cult sleeper Bubba Ho-Tep. He has a role voicing the Mayor in the highly anticipated 3D film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, set to be released September 2009.

Recently, Bruce made the leap into other forms of entertainment, and is enjoying his new role as an author with back-to-back NY Times bestsellers - a memoir entitled “If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor,” and his first novel, “Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way.”

Bruce continues to share his filmmaking experience, lecturing at universities which include Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon and Stanford. He currently resides with his wife, Ida Gearon, in Oregon.