William Campbell

Though this concept was largely discarded, the end of the title track includes a lyric referring to the "one and only Billy Shears," played by Ringo Starr, who sings the lead vocal on the next song, "With A Little Help From My Friends.". Currently, Conway voices the character "Barnacle Boy" in the popular Nickelodeon cartoon series SpongeBob SquarePants. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that the Beatles were originally planning to "play" on the album. Conway's more recent work includes a series of satirical how-to videos in which he plays a diminuitive Scandinavian known as "Dorf." Conway continues to appear in movies and has cameo appearances in TV series; most of these appearances showcase his comedic talent. Pepper, "Billy Shears" is the name of the lead singer for the fictional Sgt. Conway's work on the show earned him three Emmy Awards. Also on Sgt. He is probably best known, however, for his work on The Carol Burnett Show where his antics sometimes caused his fellow players to fall out of character by bursting out in laughter.

Most Canadians would recognize this at first glance. The most popular of these is probably The Apple Dumpling Gang series of movies. The badge does not contain the lettering "OPD" but rather "OPP". Of these films for Disney, he was often paired with fellow funnyman, Don Knotts. The badge on Paul's arm in the Sgt Pepper's album is that of the Ontario Provincial Police. Afterwards, he starred in a string of doomed series before appearing in several slapstick family films. The letters "OPD," appearing on a costume in a photograph on the Sgt Pepper album were interpreted variously as standing for "Officially Pronounced Dead" and an indication that Billy Campbell had worked in the Ontario Police Department. He gained a following from his appearance in the 1960s sitcom McHale's Navy.

Beatles fans scoured the Beatles' albums for hidden "clues" confirming this, and, demonstrating the human capacity to find meaning where no meaning exists, located dozens of "confirming" nuggets of information. These morsels were concocted together into one more-or-less cohesive tale: that the real Paul, killed by a banana lorry, had been replaced by an actor named either William Campbell or Billy Shears, who had undergone plastic surgery in order to effect a perfect likeness, and who had previously won a Paul McCartney look-alike contest. After graduating, he joined the Army, following which he took a job answering mail for a Cleveland radio station, where he went on to become a writer for the promotional department. In October 1969, Russ Gibbs, program coordinator for radio station WKNR-FM in Detroit, began a baseless rumor that Paul McCartney had been killed and replaced by a look-alike. He attended Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where he majored in speech and radio. In fact such contests were held, but no William Campbell ever won one. Conway was born in Willoughby, Ohio, and grew up in Chagrin Falls. According to this urban legend, a William Campbell won a "Paul look-alike" contest in 1966 and was induced to impersonate Paul after Paul died. Conway was born Thomas Daniel Conway, but changed his first name to "Tim" to avoid confusion with actor Tom Conway.

William Shears Campbell is a fictional Paul McCartney look-alike whose purported existence arose from the fevered efforts of conspiracy theorists to find significance in album photos and hidden musical messages during the Paul is Dead hoax in the late 1960s. Tim Conway (born December 15, 1933, Willoughby, Ohio) is an American comedic actor.