Audrey Campbell, a stunningly classy and lovely brunette beauty, was born on August 5, 1929, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to a German mother and a Scot/Irish father. She started modeling after graduating from high school and left home at the age of twenty to marry a drummer.
Campbell's early career included singing in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas with the Music Drama Guild and editing the newsletter "Operations English," which focused on English language opera. She was then featured in a late 1940s live television program broadcast from Cincinnati's WKRC network, titled "The Girl in the Window." Additionally, she served on the Board of Directors for the Playhouse in the Park theater in Cincinnati.
In 1961, Campbell moved to New York City, where she initially worked in press representation for both Broadway productions and the New York City Opera. Her film debut came as an 18-year-old Roman princess Poetrix in the Joe Sarno movie "Lash of Lust." She achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity with her formidable portrayal of the wicked and sadistic villainess Madame Olga in the brutal and shocking roughie exploitation features "White Slaves of Chinatown," "Olga's Girls," and "Olga's House of Shame."
Campbell's other notable roles include playing frustrated housewife Geraldine Lewis in Sarno's soft-core gem "Sin in the Suburbs" and a fetching cave woman in the lowbrow comedy "50,000 B.C. (Before Clothing)." Her last picture was the soft-core soap opera "A Woman in Love."
In addition to her film work, Campbell had a semi-recurring part on the popular Gothic horror soap opera "Dark Shadows." She also acted in TV commercials, worked as a model, and had regular roles on the daytime soap operas "As the World Turns," "Ryan's Hope," and "The Guiding Light." Furthermore, she participated in various trade shows.
Notably, movie critic Andrew Sarris mentioned Campbell as one of his top three fantasy women in an article for "American Film" magazine. Audrey Campbell passed away at the age of 76 from kidney and respiratory ailments on June 8, 2006, in New York City.
