![]() Once as the 'Laurence Olivier of bad movies,' no actor has done more with a strong chin and questionable scripts than Bruce Campbell. The 60-year-old Michigan native achieved B-movie infamy beginning with films before garnering primetime employment on USA’s Burn Notice and a three-season stint on the Starz series Ash vs. Campbell also frequently appears at comic book conventions, where his repartee with audiences (choice quote: “You’re a dumbass!”) has further endeared him to the non-Oscar voting crowd. Having closed the door on any further appearances as Ash, Campbell is jumping into hosting duties, headlining a revival of Ripley's Believe It or Not! That will premiere on the Travel Channel in summer 2019. In the meantime, check out all the gory details we’ve dug up on Campbell's formative years, his bid for superhero status, and why it took him so long to pick up another chainsaw. Sam Raimi began torturing him in high school. Nicholas Hunt, Getty Images for STARZ The Evil Dead director and frequent Campbell collaborator Sam Raimi has repeatedly expressed his delight in torturing Campbell for cameras, drowning him in fake blood and poking him with a stick in order to elicit his desired performance. Their dysfunctional relationship began in high school, where Raimi was fond of sitting behind Campbell and pressing a pencil into his back while his “friend” was attempting to answer a question from a teacher. Ninaithu Ninaithu Unni Krishnan 7. Saranam Bhava Sujatha 8. 2011 all tamil movie mp3 songs download. Surendar, Unni Krishnan 6. ![]() He fended off the advances of prostitutes. After dropping out of college to pursue acting, Campbell found work with a Detroit-area taxi company, Southfield Cab. While working the overnight shift, he sometimes found himself toting around prostitutes who would offer their services instead of paying the fare: Campbell declined the arrangement. He lasted a year as a driver before recommitting to film work in 1978 with Raimi’s low-budget, shot-in-Michigan short Within the Woods, which would become the proof-of-concept for their feature film, The Evil Dead. He hated The Evil Dead as a title. Anchor Bay Entertainment When Raimi and his crew finally finished shooting their splatter flick The Evil Dead and began seeking a distribution deal, they were calling it Book of the Dead. Irvin Shapiro, a wheeler-dealer who had helped horror filmmaker George Romero find his audience, dismissed it, insisting people would think they’d have to read.
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