Bobby Campo
Bobby Campo is an actor, born 1983.
Bobby Campo, born Robert Joseph Camposecco in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1983, made his screen debut in the television film Vampire Bats in 2005 and followed it with the short-lived series South Beach. Four years later he had the year that still defines the page: a supporting part in the teen comedy Legally Blondes and then Nick in The Final Destination, the 2009 entry in the horror series, which is where most people who know his face know it from.
The horror lead is a specific job and he is well suited to it. The Final Destination films are machines, and what they need at the centre is somebody plausible enough to invest in and neutral enough not to compete with the set pieces. Campo plays it with an easy, unfussy naturalism, which is also why the part did not launch him the way that kind of opening usually does.
What followed was a working actor's decade rather than a star's. Max in Being Human, the teacher Seth Branson in Scream: The TV Series, which is his longest and most demanding run, Pete Zamperini in the faith-based Unbroken: Path to Redemption, leads in the independent films Sugar Mountain and Saltwater, and Jared in the Christmas romance Snow Bride. The through-line is dependability, which is underrated and does not get anybody on a poster twice.
Movies (7)
TV (3)
Where to start with Bobby Campo
Most people arrive at The Final Destination by default, and it is honestly the right first watch: gleefully mechanical, wholly uninterested in character, and he holds the middle of it steady enough that the film can get on with its business.
His better acting is on television. Scream: The TV Series gives him a teacher with an increasingly awkward position in the plot and a full season to develop it, and it is the most sustained work on this list. Being Human is the sharper genre show of the two. Sugar Mountain and Saltwater are the independent films where he actually leads, Unbroken: Path to Redemption is the one aimed at a completely different audience, and Vampire Bats is where it started, for completists only.