---
name: "Robert Wright Campbell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/r-wright-campbell"
fi1m_id: "r-wright-campbell"
imdb_id: "nm0132790"
tmdb_id: 111486
wikidata_id: "Q7351271"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "9 June 1927"
died: "21 September 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T15:30:53.959038+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Robert Wright Campbell

## Identity

Robert Wright Campbell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/r-wright-campbell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** r-wright-campbell
- **IMDb ID:** nm0132790
- **TMDB ID:** 111486
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7351271
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wright_Campbell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7351271, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0132790/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/111486

Writer. Born 9 June 1927 in Newark. Died 21 September 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 9 June 1927, Newark
- **Died:** 21 September 2000
- **Also known as:** R. Wright Campbell
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wright_Campbell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7351271, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0132790/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/111486

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Masque of the Red Death*](https://film.one/film/the-masque-of-the-red-death.md) (83)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Robert Wright Campbell was an American screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, often credited as R. Wright Campbell. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn before moving to Hollywood after military service.

Campbell wrote screenplays for numerous films including *Five Guns West* (1955), *Man of a Thousand Faces* (1957), *Machine-Gun Kelly* (1958), *The Secret Invasion* (1964) and *The Masque of the Red Death* (1964), the last two in collaboration with Roger Corman. He also contributed episodes to television series such as *Maverick* and *Marcus Welby, M.D.*. Later in his career he turned to novels, notably the Edgar Award-winning *The Junkyard Dog* (1986) and the Whistler series set in Los Angeles.

He was the brother of actor William Campbell. Campbell died in Monterey, California, in 2000.

*Sources: latimes.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Masque of the Red Death* (1964), Fi1m 83, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-masque-of-the-red-death.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Where Pigeons Go to Die* (1990), Book
- *Captain Nemo and the Underwater City* (1969), Writer
- *Hells Angels on Wheels* (1967), Screenplay
- *The Masque of the Red Death* (1964), Screenplay — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-masque-of-the-red-death.md)
- *The Secret Invasion* (1964), Writer
- *The Young Racers* (1963), as Robert Machin · Writer
- *A Terrible Beauty* (1960), Screenplay
- *Teenage Cave Man* (1958), Screenplay
- *Machine-Gun Kelly* (1958), Screenplay
- *Quantez* (1957), Story, Screenplay
- *Man of a Thousand Faces* (1957), Screenplay
- *Gun for a Coward* (1956), Writer
- *Cheyenne* (1955), series, Writer
- *Cell 2455 Death Row* (1955), as Whit as a boy (as Robert Campbell)
- *Five Guns West* (1955), as John Morgan Candy · Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1958: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Man of a Thousand Faces*

### Other awards — 2 won

- Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original 1987: Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original (won), for *The Junkyard Dog*
- Edgar Awards 1987: Edgar Awards (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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