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Bruce Campbell: Top 6 super Dad roles of his career

By Susan Leighton

Bruce Campbell- Ed Weihenmayer- Touch the Top of the World - Courtesy of A+E Networks, Alberta Film Development Program of the Alberta Government, Jaffe/Braunstein Films
Bruce Campbell- Ed Weihenmayer- Touch the Top of the World - Courtesy of A+E Networks, Alberta Film Development Program of the Alberta Government, Jaffe/Braunstein Films /
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Bruce Campbell - Super Dad - Courtesy of Aaron Richter - Getty Images
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – JULY 20: Bruce Campbell of “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” poses for a portrait in the Pizza Hut Lounge at 2019 Comic-Con International: San Diego on July 20, 2019 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Aaron Richter/Contour by Getty Images for Pizza Hut ) /

Bruce Campbell isn’t often associated with fatherhood in his professional life. Mostly, he is known for playing smarmy, morally questionable types. However, we found 6 roles where he portrays a devoted Dad and for fun, we decided to rank them.

Bruce Campbell isn’t an actor that readily springs to mind when you think of fatherly types. Usually, he is known for portraying charming rogues and characters of questionable morals. However, interspersed throughout his career we managed to find 6 roles where he played a devoted Dad.

Some of these performances you are probably aware of while others you may not have seen. Let’s take a look at his “parenting” skills in action.

Here is our list.

Top 6 Times Bruce Campbell Played a Super Dad

Bruce Campbell - Ash Williams - Ash vs Evil Dead - Courtesy of STARZ
Bruce Campbell – Ash Williams – Ash vs Evil Dead – Courtesy of STARZ /

6. Ash Williams – Ash vs Evil Dead

Ash Williams didn’t find out that he fathered a daughter until the final season of the series. We were introduced to Brandy in an interesting way as her mother Candy Barr confronted Ash with the news in the middle of his hardware store.

We discover that his daughter was conceived after a wild Branson, Missouri quicky wedding after Candy has resurfaced to ask him for help. Brandy is under Deadite attack at her high school and needs to be rescued.

Thus, the saga begins. Brandy loses her Mom in the most horrific and bizarre way possible (severed head from a cymbal being thrown at her by a demon). She and Ash have serious issues as she thinks he is a joke and he has trouble communicating with her.

However, throughout the course of Season 3, the two wary parties learn to love one another. For Ash, this is a dramatic undertaking because he has been alone for over four decades. He has never had to care about anyone but himself.

In the end, he has Pablo “kill” him so he can rescue her from the Rift. After saving her life, he does so once again by putting her in a van with Pablo and Kelly so that she can safely get away from Kandar the Destroyer.

The “lone wolf” becomes the leader of a pack and a heroic father by vanquishing a demon to save the world and his only daughter. That is love, pure, simple and selfless.

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