Eric Campbell (actor)

Eric Campbell ( born April 26, 1878 in Dunoon, † December 20, 1917 in Hollywood) was a Scottish actor.

Life

The tall, burly Eric Campbell played in Scotland and Wales Theatre and was discovered by the English theater director Fred Karno, who is also regarded as a discoverer of Charles Chaplin and Stan Laurel. In 1914, he came as already Chaplin and Laurel, with an Karnoproduktion previously to New York. He remained in the United States and established himself as a stage actor. 1915 saw him Chaplin in a Broadway performance and hired him for his ensemble, which he re- aufstellte for Mutual Films. Campbell then played in eleven films of Chaplin in each case the weighty villain as a counterpart of Chaplin.

1917 his wife died in a car accident. He learned long afterwards his second wife, whom he still married in the same year. However, Campbell was now a heavy drinker. He should make a film in 1918 starring Mary Pickford and Chaplin planned other films with him for First National, when he drunk was killed at the wheel of his car.