Michael Champion
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 3, 1946
- Died
- Jun 15, 2021 (aged 74)
- Place of birth
- Anderson, Indiana, USA
- Credits
- 42
Michael Campbell (born in Anderson, Indiana) started his public career as a singer, songwriter and musician in Detroit. In 1967 with a short-lived band called 'The Abstract Reality', a 45 rpm single Love Burns Like A Fire Inside was released. With Bob 'Babbitt' Kreinar, Ray Monette and Andrew Smith he formed Scorpion (1968–1970 band). His name appears as Mike Campbell on Scorpion (1969 album) and Meat Loaf's debut album Stoney & Meatloaf (1971). For this recording, apart from having cowritten four songs, he played the harmonica on Lady Be Mine.
He became an actor by the name Michael Champion and since 1979 played in several TV series and movies such as Diagnosis Murder (1993), Matlock (1989), and The Flash (1991), History of the World: Part I (1981), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Total Recall (1990) and Toy Soldiers (1991), and video game characters like the terrorist in Flash Traffic: City of Angels (1994) and 'Wolf' in Maximum Surge (1996).
Known for
Filmography
Forgotten Ingenue
2021Movie
Officer Martner
Raven Hawk
1996Movie
Gordon Fowler
Dead Cold
1996Movie
Bill Butler
Aurora: Operation Intercept
1995Movie
Johann Wells
Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
1994Movie
Viper
1994TV
Erick Van Hook
Diagnosis: Murder
1993TV
Big Angie
Private Wars
1993Movie
Chief Carpenter
Leather Jackets
1992Movie
Costello
The Swordsman
1992Movie
Stratos
The Heroes of Desert Storm
1991Movie
Warrant Officer Hunter
Toy Soldiers
1991Movie
Jack Thorpe
The Flash
1990TV
Captain Cold
False Identity
1990Movie
Luther
Total Recall
1990Movie
Helm
Pink Cadillac
1989Movie
Ken Lee
One Man Out
1989Movie
The Forgotten
1989Movie
Sgt. Elmer J. Miller
Father Dowling Mysteries
1989TV
Harry Deal
Fatal Beauty
1987Movie
Buzz
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987TV
Boratus
Tour of Duty
1987TV
M.P. Sergeant
A Year in the Life
1987TV
Jim Scully
21 Jump Street
1987TV
Facility Director
ALF
1986TV
Matt Fox
Matlock
1986TV
Guard John Jackson
Crime of Innocence
1985Movie
MacGyver
1985TV
Larson
Stark
1985Movie
Sam
Beverly Hills Cop
1984Movie
Casey
V
1984TV
Garrison
Knight Rider
1982TV
Wade Fontaine, Monk
T. J. Hooker
1982TV
Fleming
The Woman Inside
1981Movie
Nolan
History of the World: Part I
1981Movie
Prehistoric Man
Hill Street Blues
1981TV
Pistol Whipped Cabbie
Wholly Moses
1980Movie
Sodom Sentry
10
1979Movie
Party Guest
When a Stranger Calls
1979Movie
Bill
The Incredible Hulk
1977TV
Del
Lou Grant
1977TV
Red Keough
The Rockford Files
1974TV
Dwight Deleau