Arch campbell biography
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Archie Campbell (comedian)
American comedian
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| Born | ()November 7, Bulls Gap, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Origin | Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Died | August 29, () (aged&#;72) Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. |
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| Labels | RCA Victor |
Musical artist
Archie Campbell (November 7, – August 29, )[1] was an American comedian, writer, and star of Hee Haw, a country-flavored network television variety show. He was also a recording artist with several hits for RCA Victor in the s.
Biography
[edit]Early career
[edit]Born in Bulls Gap, Tennessee, Campbell studied art at Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, North Carolina, after which he began a radio career at WNOX in Knoxville. After a year alongside Roy Acuff on their Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round,[1] he relocated to WDOD in Chattanooga, where he stayed until joining the U.S. Navy in [1] At the end of World War II, Campbell returned to WNOX. He left tha
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A standing room only crowd watched longtime NBC4 movie critic talk about his new memoir The Accidental Critic at Politics and Prose in Washington D.C. Sunday afternoon.
Campbell, interviewed by his former on-air colleague Doreen Gentzler, talked about his career, how he stumbled into being a movie/entertainment critic (thus the title of his book) and how painful leaving NBC4 was to the point where he took circuitous routes to places to avoid driving by his old station.
Campbell, 78, was born in San Antonio, moved to DC in working at NBC4 for 32 years then 8 years at ABC7 and NewsChannel8.
Asked by MCM what was the most memorable interview of his career, he quickly said John Travolta and told an entertaining story about what happened.
You can watch the entire event here:
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One of Washington, D.C.'s most popular and enduring local television news personalities, Arch Campbell, is sharing how he inadvertently became an entertainment reporter and joined one of the country's most successful on-air collaborations at NBC4.
How Arch Campbell inadvertently became a movie critic
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DC broadcast legend Arch Campbell on becoming ‘The Accidental Critic’
One of D.C.&#;s most popular and enduring local television news personalities, Arch Campbell, is sharing how he inadvertently became an entertainment reporter and joined one of the country&#;s most successful on-air collaborations at NBC Washington.
Campbell&#;s new autobiography, &#;The Accidental Critic: A Television News Memoir,&#; just went on sale. On Sunday, Feb. 2 at 5 p.m., he&#;ll be interviewed by former News4 colleague Doreen Gentzler at Politics and Prose, in Northwest