Dallas Campbell
Dallas Campbell is a well-known British television presenter whose credits include BBC One's Supersized Earth, Bang Goes the Theory (BBC America, 2013), Egypt's Lost Cities, BBC Four's Horizon Guides, and The Drake Equation: The Search for Life. Before joining the BBC, he presented Channel Five's technology program The Gadget Show, as well as Dallas Campbell's Guide to the Impossible, also known as Dallas in Wonderland, a comedy science series he co-produced with R.J. Cutler for Discovery Science in the United States.
Prior to moving into factual presenting, he worked as an actor in several of the UK's most popular television shows, including Casualty, Doomwatch, A Touch of Frost, and Moll Flanders. In theatre, he frequently collaborated with the late, legendary director Ken Campbell on various projects, most notably The Warp, the world's longest play, which ran for 29 hours.
He wrote and directed the short film No Deposit No Return.
He is married to Victoria Goodall, the sister of actress Caroline Goodall.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.1837 |
| Birthday | 1970-09-17 |
| Place of Birth | Kilmalcolm, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As |
2002
Fallen Angels
5/8
Abandoned and filled with a mysterious past, Holy Angel School for Girls is about to reveal its secrets of betrayal, jealousy, and vengeance. Rumours...
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Fallen Angels
2012
The Science of Doctor Who
0/0
Like all great science fiction shows, there are kernels of truth and nuggets of science fact scattered throughout the incredible ‘Doctor Who’ universe...
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The Science of Doctor Who
2010
The Search for Life: The Drake Equation
7.2/10
Dallas Campbell explores the equation which attempts to calculate the number of planets supporting life in our universe.
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The Search for Life: The Drake Equation
1999
Doomwatch: Winter Angel
7.333/3
University lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored Soviet nuclear waste at a remote British nuclear faci...
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Doomwatch: Winter Angel
2012
Voyager: To the Final Frontier
7.9/7
This is the story of the most extraordinary journey in human exploration, the Voyager space mission. In 1977 two unmanned spacecraft were launched by...
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Voyager: To the Final Frontier
2013
The Science of Doctor Who
7.3/17
For one night only, Professor Brian Cox takes an audience of celebrity guests and members of the public on a journey into the wonderful universe of th...
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The Science of Doctor Who
2015
Time Scanners: Macchu Picchu
0/0
Structural engineer Steve Burrows scans the sacred Inca city of Machu Picchu using 3D laser technology. His three main questions: How did the Inca bui...
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Time Scanners: Macchu Picchu
2016
Time Scanners: Jerusalem
0/0
Join structural engineer Steve Burrows and his team of laser-scanning experts as they set out to explore the epic building legacy of Jerusalem. Their...
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Time Scanners: Jerusalem
2011
Extinct: A Horizon Guide to Dinosaurs
6/1
Dallas Campbell delves in to the Horizon archive to discover how our ideas about dinosaurs have changed over the past 40 years. From realising that lu...
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Extinct: A Horizon Guide to Dinosaurs
2014
Tutankhamun: The Truth Uncovered
7/5
What killed King Tutankhamun? Ever since his spectacular tomb was discovered, the boy king has been the most famous pharaoh of all ancient Egypt. But...
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Tutankhamun: The Truth Uncovered
2011
Egypt's Lost Cities
7.3/3
It is possible that only one per cent of the wonders of ancient Egypt have been discovered, but now, thanks to a pioneering approach to archaeology, t...
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Egypt's Lost Cities
2016
Television's Opening Night: How the Box Was Born
0/0
TV presenter Dallas Campbell, engineer Professor Danielle George and engineer Dr Hugh Hunt re-create the opening of the BBC's television service on 2...
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Television's Opening Night: How the Box Was Born
2012
Woof! A Horizon Guide to Dogs
0/0
Dallas Campbell looks back through the Horizon archives to find out what science can tell us about our best friend the dog, and whether new thinking s...
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Woof! A Horizon Guide to Dogs
2011
Egypt: What Lies Beneath
0/0
Using sophisticated CGI re-creations, this BBC documentary follows the explorations of archaeologist Sarah Parcak, who has developed satellite technol...
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Egypt: What Lies Beneath
What Makes Us Clever? A Horizon Guide to Intelligence
0/0
Dallas Campbell delves into the Horizon archive to discover how our understanding of intelligence has transformed over the last century. From early ca...
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What Makes Us Clever? A Horizon Guide to Intelligence
2026
The Christophers
6.833/3
The estranged children of a once-famous artist hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be "discovered" and sold after his death.
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