Michael Champion
Acting • Born 1946-11-03 – Died 2021-06-15
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
43 credits
Beverly Hills Cop
Movie • 1984
Casey
Total Recall
Movie • 1990
Helm
History of the World: Part I
Movie • 1981
Prehistoric Man
Toy Soldiers
Movie • 1991
Jack Thorpe
Pink Cadillac
Movie • 1989
Ken Lee
The Forgotten
Movie • 1989
Sgt. Elmer J. Miller
10
Movie • 1979
Party Guest
One Man Out
Movie • 1989
When a Stranger Calls
Movie • 1979
Bill
The Swordsman
Movie • 1992
Stratos
Stark
Movie • 1985
Sam
Dead Cold
Movie • 1996
Bill Butler
Forgotten Ingenue
Movie • 2021
Officer Martner
Raven Hawk
Movie • 1996
Gordon Fowler
Crime of Innocence
Movie • 1985
Leather Jackets
Movie • 1992
Costello
The Heroes of Desert Storm
Movie • 1991
Warrant Officer Hunter
The Woman Inside
Movie • 1981
Nolan
Fatal Beauty
Movie • 1987
Buzz
False Identity
Movie • 1990
Luther
Wholly Moses
Movie • 1980
Sodom Sentry
Aurora: Operation Intercept
Movie • 1995
Johann Wells
Private Wars
Movie • 1993
Chief Carpenter
Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
Movie • 1994
V
TV • 1984
Garrison
Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
Big Angie
ALF
TV • 1986
Sgt. Matt Fox
Viper
TV • 1994
Erick Van Hook
MacGyver
TV • 1985
Larson
Knight Rider
TV • 1982
Wade Fontaine
Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV • 1987
Boratus
Knight Rider
TV • 1982
Monk
A Year in the Life
TV • 1987
Jim Scully
The Flash
TV • 1990
Captain Cold
Father Dowling Mysteries
TV • 1989
Harry Deal
21 Jump Street
TV • 1987
Facility Director
Tour of Duty
TV • 1987
M.P. Sergeant
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Dwight Deleau
T. J. Hooker
TV • 1982
Fleming
The Incredible Hulk
TV • 1977
Del
Hill Street Blues
TV • 1981
Pistol Whipped Cabbie
Matlock
TV • 1986
Guard John Jackson
Lou Grant
TV • 1977
Red Keough