Why isn't Bruce Campbell a bigger star?

admittedly i enjoy camp -- & mr campbell is the reigning king thereof

perhaps like other types of performers who aspire to serious acting [ hullo mr sandler, mr carrey ] but who trudge through over-the-top comedy to get there, mr campbell has had the good fortune to be an actor who always has work without compromising his ' performance niche '

Well, I'd say it's kind of the actor he is. If you've ever read his book, "If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor", you'd see that, well, he's not meant for the main spotlight. It's almost part of his charm. Anyways, it helps him not be too "Hollywood", ya know?

So few people understand how much type casting, and just plain superstition rules the day in the screen acting world. It's not only the type of character you are perceived as playing, or having played, it's the type of film you're perceived as being able to support. Very few actors can escape from the horror/sci-fi ghetto. Sometimes an actor can start in one of those tar-pit genres and escape from it, but not often. But once a "mainstream" movie actor succumbs to playing in one of those genres it's almost impossible for them to ever escape. Nicholas Cage has his place. But his pull in the industry, which seems to be based more on momentum than family ties, has often gotten him miscast. I just watched The Wicker Man, which could have been a better film if they had cast someone else. But they went with a "mainstream" actor who had a proven track record in offbeat roles. He destroyed the movie. I actually love him in many films, but box office marketing can totally distort the process of casting. Bruce Campbell is one of my favorite actors. He started out not just in horror films, but in cheap, super low budget horror films. Who else from the original Evil Dead has a screen acting career? It's a testament to his monumental talent and charisma (which in the acting business are practically synonymous) that he has sustained any kind of a career at all for so many years. I mean, what ever happened to Candace Hilligoss?

I would never want Bruce Campbell to be a bigger star that he already is. Just because he's not in many mainstream movies doesn't mean anything. There are a lot of actors out there who are much more famous than Bruce but not too many of them are as talented as he is. B movies is where it's at. I should also mention Ted Raimi who is another very talented actor who is not mainstream and who Bruce Campbell has worked with several times.

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C'mon people are you all really that naive and ignorant? Luck is the biggest factor in anyone becoming a "Big Star" Sure they have to have the basic ingredients first, but out of half a billion or so potentials do you honestly think that the handful of successful actors are the only ones suitable? Bruce just hasn't been lucky to get the right breaks in/or the right movies

I think it's because he's thought of first as a "B" movie actor which unfortunately limits him in the minds of alot of casting directors. This and the fact that if "Army Of Darkness" and "Bubba Ho-Tep" had made more money during their initial theatrical releases (or "Brisco County" had gone for a hundred episodes or more) he probably would have been offered bigger roles. It's nothing to do with his abilities as an actor, but, rather the inability of his movies to attract a wider audience.

It's a matter of relativity. Cage's uncle is Francis Ford Coppola. BTW Cage is a creep and the people on he set don't like him.

He's just too awesome for mainstream Hollywood.