Eric Campbell (actor)

Alfred Eric Campbell , was a British actor. He was a key member of Charlie Chaplins film ensemble, invariably playing an intimidating bully, and appeared in eleven of Chaplins films before he was killed in a car crash atyears old. He is the subject of a documentary by filmmaker Kevin Macdonald.

Campbell was previously believed to have been born in Scotland in Dunoon, traditional Clan Campbell country, but he is now believed to have been born in Cheshire. Most sources give his year of birth as 1879, but online birth records show that the birth of an Alfred Eric Campbell was registered in Altrincham in AprilJune 1880, no birth with this name was registered in Cheshire in 1879.

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