Chester Campbell is a ruthless bureaucrat charged with rooting out subversion in Birmingham as well recovering a missing consignment of guns from the Birmingham Small Arms factory. He serves as the primary antagonist of Season 1 as well as one of the main antagonists in Season 2 of Peaky Blinders.

Oct 19, 2024 · Sam Neill only played Inspector Chester Campbell in Peaky Blinders seasons 1 and 2, leading many to wonder why the big-name actor left the show.

Jan 19, 2025 · Season 1 of Peaky Blinders ended with the sound of a gunshot, moments after Grace stared down the barrel of Major Campbell’s pistol. Yet the following season began by confounding the assumption that Grace had been shot, instead showing her shooting Campbell with a gun hidden in her handbag before he could pull the trigger.

Chief Inspector Chester Campbell, later referred to as Major Campbell, is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Oswald Mosley) of the BBC crime series Peaky Blinders. He is a ruthless government official obsessed with bringing down the Shelby family, leading him to commit heinous crimes in the process.

Peaky Blinders is a crime drama centred on a family of mixed Irish Traveller and Romani origins based in Birmingham, England, starting in 1919, several months after the end of the First World War. It centres on the Peaky Blinders street gang and …

Aug 7, 2020 · Major Chester Campbell (played by Sam Neill) was the main antagonist in the first two series of Peaky Blinders. He was first a Chief Inspector but was then promoted to Major in the second...

Tell us about your character. I play Chief Inspector Campbell. He’s a tough cop from Northern Ireland. He’s probably fairly psychotic but he’s a righteous man, an upright man whose mission …

A puritanical policeman who'll stop at nothing to get the job done. Drafted in from Northern Ireland to clean up Birmingham, Campbell is a big, brutish man, completely...

Nov 28, 2019 · Peaky Blinders has had a number of brutal villians across its run on the BBC but one of the most evil was the Inspector Campbell (played by Sam Neill) who was an imposing presence in seasons...

Feb 26, 2022 · Having run for a total of five seasons, with a sixth around the corner, Peaky Blinders has had a slew of villains for the Shelby family to face off yet none of them have ever seemed to match seasons 1 and 2’s Inspector Campbell.