Wally Campo

Wallace Joseph Campodonico (April 23, 1923 – January 14, 2023), better known as Wally Campo, was an American actor. He was known for his appearances in Roger Corman and Burt Topper films, as well as for narrating The Little Shop of Horrors.

Life and career Wallace Campodonico was born in Stockton, California on April 23, 1923. He attended Stockton High School, and played the title role in the 1941 senior class production of Tom Cobb or, Fortune's Toy. During World War II, Campodonico served in the U.S. Army, enlisting in June 1942. After the war, he worked as a stage actor. He appeared in a 1948 production of Ah, Wilderness! as part of The Stockton Community Players.

Campo's best known appearance on screen was playing Joe Fink in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), a detective who visits the shop after catching wind of recent disappearances. The character's persona has been described as a parody of the type of detectives featured in Dragnet. Campo also narrated the film.

In 1969, Campo, then working as an acting coach, made his debut as a director on the film Mark of the Gun, starring Ross Hagen.

Campo and his wife, Geraldine Matthews, had one son, Tony Campodonico, a musician who appeared as a child actor on General Hospital. He later lived in Valley Village, Los Angeles, 1958 Machine-Gun Kelly Maize 1958 Hell Squad Private Russo 1959 Tank Commando Pvt. Sonny Lazzotti 1959 Warlock Barber 1959 Beast from Haunted Cave Byron Smith 1960 Ski Troop Attack Pvt. Ed Ciccola 1960 The Little Shop of Horrors Sgt. Joe Fink / Narrator 1961 Master of the World First Mate Turner 1961 War Is Hell Laney 1962 Tales of Terror Barman Wilkins 1963 Shock Corridor 1964 The Strangler Eggerton 1967 Devil's Angels Grog