Campbell Copelin

Campbell Copelin (15 March 1901 – 3 August 1988) was an English actor, who moved to Australia in the 1920s and worked extensively in film, theatre, radio and television.

He had a notable association with J.C. Williamson Ltd and frequently collaborated with F. W. Thring and Frank Harvey.

In the early 1930s he appeared in a number of Australian talking films, mostly as a villain but occasionally as a heroic lead.

After the war he returned to Australia, and worked regularly on stage and appeared in many early Australian television plays.

[5] On the night of 18 March 1931 Copelin took a £1,000 plane out for a joyride in Melbourne and crashed it into Sandridge golf links, causing him to spend several months in hospital.