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Dallas Campbell

Acting Born Sep 17, 1970 Kilmalcolm, Scotland, UK 24 credits

Biography

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.

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Known for

The Crown

as Morton's Interviewer

Slow Horses

as Newsreader

M.I. High

as Dallas Campbell
Film

The Christophers

as Art Fight Moderator

The Gadget Show

as Self - Host

Full filmography

  • The Crown (2016) as Morton's Interviewer
  • Slow Horses (2022) as Newsreader
  • A Touch of Frost (1992) as Simon Renfrew
  • M.I. High (2007) as Dallas Campbell
  • Celebrity Mastermind (2003)
  • Attila (2001) as Eugenis
  • The Christophers (2026) as Art Fight Moderator
  • The Gadget Show (2004) as Self - Host
  • Spender (1991) as Young College Type
  • Science of Stupid (2014) as Self - Host
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) as Master Deniston
  • Bang Goes the Theory (2009) as Self - Presenter
  • Red Dwarf: The First Three Million Years (2020) as Self
  • City in the Sky (2016) as Self - Presenter
  • Britain Beneath Your Feet (2015) as Self - Presenter
  • Doomwatch: Winter Angel (1999) as Hugo Cox
  • Fallen Angels (2002) as Brett Murray
  • Positive Energy (2017) as Self
  • Supersized Earth (2012) as Self - Presenter
  • Time Scanners (2014) as Himself - Host
  • The Infinite Monkey Cage (2020) as Panellist
  • Voyager: To the Final Frontier (2012) as Self - Presenter
  • Airport Live (2013) as Presenter
  • The Science of Doctor Who (2012)