Michael Champion
Born: 1946-11-03 in Anderson, Indiana, USA
Died: 2021-06-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2021
- Forgotten Ingenue as Officer Martner
2019
- Entering Red as Band Member
1996
- Dead Cold as Bill Butler
- Raven Hawk as Gordon Fowler
1995
- Aurora: Operation Intercept as Johann Wells
1994
- Viper as Erick Van Hook
- Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
1993
- Diagnosis: Murder as Big Angie
- Private Wars as Chief Carpenter
1992
- The Swordsman as Stratos
- Leather Jackets as Costello
1991
- Toy Soldiers as Jack Thorpe
- The Heroes of Desert Storm as Warrant Officer Hunter
1990
- Total Recall as Helm
- The Flash as Captain Cold
- False Identity as Luther
1989
- Pink Cadillac as Ken Lee
- The Forgotten as Sgt. Elmer J. Miller
- Father Dowling Mysteries as Harry Deal
- One Man Out
1987
- Star Trek: The Next Generation as Boratus
- 21 Jump Street as Facility Director
- Tour of Duty as M.P. Sergeant
- A Year in the Life as Jim Scully
- Fatal Beauty as Buzz
1985
- MacGyver as Larson
- Stark as Sam
- Crime of Innocence
1984
- V as Garrison
- Beverly Hills Cop as Casey
1982
- Knight Rider as Wade Fontaine
- T. J. Hooker as Fleming
1981
- Hill Street Blues as Pistol Whipped Cabbie
- History of the World: Part I as Prehistoric Man
- The Woman Inside as Nolan
1980
- Wholly Moses as Sodom Sentry
1979
- 10 as Party Guest
- When a Stranger Calls as Bill
1977
- The Incredible Hulk as Del
- Lou Grant as Red Keough
1974
- The Rockford Files as Dwight Deleau