In 1882, Augustus Harris, the manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, cast Campbell in a series of pantomimes which was to last until his death.Anthony, p. 88 From 1888 he was joined every year by Dan Leno, and their partnership became popular with audiences. As a result, his career excelled, owing much to their contrasting styles. The physical comparisons between Campbell and Leno were very different. Campbell weighed 256 pounds, was over six-foot tall and vocally, like "a powerful accordion which some miracle-worker had got into tune"G.B. Shaw, Saturday Review, 1897, edition 83, pp. 87–89 alongside the diminutive and whimsical Leno. The English essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm thought of Campbell as "the offspring of some mystical union between beef and thunder" and regularly took French visitors to see him "as a liberal education in the character of this island".Beerbohm, p. 350
