Portrait of Michael Champion

Michael Champion

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).

Born: November 3, 1946

Place of Birth: Anderson, Indiana, USA

Filmography

2021
Forgotten Ingenue

as Officer Martner

2019
Entering Red

as Band Member

1996
Raven Hawk

as Gordon Fowler

1996
Dead Cold

as Bill Butler

1995
1994
Viper

as Erick Van Hook

1993
Diagnosis: Murder

as Big Angie

1993
Private Wars

as Chief Carpenter

1992
Leather Jackets

as Costello

1992
The Swordsman

as Stratos

1991
The Heroes of Desert Storm

as Warrant Officer Hunter

1991
Toy Soldiers

as Jack Thorpe

1990
The Flash

as Captain Cold

1990
1990
1989
Pink Cadillac

as Ken Lee

1989
The Forgotten

as Sgt. Elmer J. Miller

1989
1987
1987
Tour of Duty

as M.P. Sergeant

1987
A Year in the Life

as Jim Scully

1987
21 Jump Street

as Facility Director

1986
ALF

as Sgt. Matt Fox

1986
Matlock

as Guard John Jackson

1985
MacGyver

as Larson

1985
Stark

as Sam

1984
1984
V

as Garrison

1982
Knight Rider

as Wade Fontaine

1982
1982
T. J. Hooker

as Fleming

1981
1981
1981
Hill Street Blues

as Pistol Whipped Cabbie

1980
Wholly Moses

as Sodom Sentry

1979
10

as Party Guest

1977
Lou Grant

as Red Keough

1974
The Rockford Files

as Dwight Deleau