Career
His best known role was the lead in The Leather Boys in 1963, in which Campbell plays a bored married man who starts hanging out with a biker friend who he belatedly realises is gay. Campbell also starred in Nuns on the Run (1990) and has made many appearances on British Television, including playing the part of David Ashton, one of the main characters in the popular Independent Television drama series A Family At War which aired from 1970 to 1972. His photograph appears on the cover of the German release of The Smiths" single Ask and, as his Leatherboys character on the cover of The Smiths" single release, William, lieutenant Was Really Nothing (only Civil Defense version) and with co-star Rita Tushingham in the promotional video for Girlfriend In A Coma.
Colin"s granddaughter is the 90"s popular star Shola Ama.