Audrey Campbell(1929-2006)
- Actress
Stunningly classy and lovely brunette beauty Audrey Campbell was born
on August 5, 1929 in Cincinnati, Ohio to a German mother and Scot/Irish
father. Following graduation from high school Campbell started modeling
and left home at age twenty to marry a drummer. She sang in Gilbert and
Sullivan operettas with the Music Drama Guild and edited the newsletter
"Operations English," which was devoted to English language opera.
Audrey was then featured in a late 1940's live television program
broadcast from Cincinnati's WKRC network called "The Girl in the
Window." She was on the Board of Directors for the Playhouse in the
Park theater in Cincinnati. Campbell moved to New York City in 1961,
where she initially did press representation work for both Broadway
productions and the New York City Opera. Audrey made her film debut as an
18 year old Roman princess Poetrix in the Joe Sarno movie "Lash of
Lust." Campbell achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity
with her formidable portrayal of the wicked and sadistic villainess
Madame Olga in the brutal and shocking roughie exploitation features
"White Slaves of Chinatown," "Olga's Girls," and "Olga's House of
Shame." Audrey was excellent as frustrated housewife Geraldine Lewis in
Sarno's terrific soft-core gem "Sin in the Suburbs" and memorably sexy
as a fetching cave woman in the lowbrow comedy "50,000 B.C. (Before
Clothing)." Her last picture was the soft-core soap opera "A Woman in
Love." Moreover, Campbell had a semi-recurring part on the popular
Gothic horror soap opera "Dark Shadows." In addition, Audrey acted in
TV commercials, worked as a model (she appears along with Peter Sellers
in a pictorial for a 1964 issue of "Playboy" magazine), and had regular
roles on the daytime soap operas "As the World Turns," "Ryan's Hope,"
and "The Guiding Light." She also did various trade shows. Movie critic
Andrew Sarris mentioned Campbell as one of his top three fantasy women
in an article for "American Film" magazine. Audrey Campbell died at age
76 from kidney and respiratory ailments on June 8, 2006 in New York
City.
