Biography
Producer Bruce Post Campbell was behind two independent feature films and several television specials from the late '60s through the '70s. He was a co-founder of the Campbell-Silver-Cosby production company that was responsible for creating
Bill Cosby specials. Campbell's most highly regarded production effort was
Dalton Trumbo's screen version of his controversial antiwar novel,
Johnny Got His Gun (1971). The film earned a Palme d'Or Peace Prize at that year's Cannes Film Festival. During the mid-'90s, Campbell executive produced a series of dramatizations of stories from Kurt Vonnegut's short story anthology Welcome to the Monkey House. Campbell died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage on November 3, 1996. At the time, he was producing a film version of another Vonnegut novel, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, and an adaptation of Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide