Michael Champion

Acting

Born November 3, 1946, Anderson, Indiana, USA

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).

Filmography

• 2021Forgotten Ingenue — Officer Martner
• 1996Dead Cold — Bill Butler
• 1996Raven Hawk — Gordon Fowler
• 1995Aurora: Operation Intercept — Johann Wells
• 1994Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
• Viper — Erick Van Hook
• Diagnosis: Murder — Big Angie
• 1993Private Wars — Chief Carpenter
• 1992Leather Jackets — Costello
• 1992The Swordsman — Stratos
• 1991The Heroes of Desert Storm — Warrant Officer Hunter
• 1991Toy Soldiers — Jack Thorpe
• 1990False Identity — Luther
• The Flash — Captain Cold
• 1990Total Recall — Helm
• Father Dowling Mysteries — Harry Deal
• 1989One Man Out
• 1989Pink Cadillac — Ken Lee
• 1989The Forgotten — Sgt. Elmer J. Miller
• 21 Jump Street — Facility Director
• A Year in the Life — Jim Scully
• 1987Fatal Beauty — Buzz
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Boratus
• Tour of Duty — M.P. Sergeant
• ALF — Matt Fox
• Matlock — Guard John Jackson
• 1985Crime of Innocence
• MacGyver — Larson
• 1985Stark — Sam
• 1984Beverly Hills Cop — Casey
• V — Garrison
• Knight Rider — Wade Fontaine, Monk
• T. J. Hooker — Fleming
• Hill Street Blues — Pistol Whipped Cabbie
• 1981History of the World: Part I — Prehistoric Man
• 1981The Woman Inside — Nolan
• 1980Wholly Moses — Sodom Sentry
• 197910 — Party Guest
• 1979When a Stranger Calls — Bill
• Lou Grant — Red Keough
• The Incredible Hulk — Del
• The Rockford Files — Dwight Deleau