Acting
Michael Champion
EN cinema · 24 credits
Born
3 November 1946
Died
15 June 2021 (aged 74)
Birthplace
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).
Known for
Filmography
Forgotten Ingenue
as Officer Martner
Dead Cold
as Bill Butler
Raven Hawk
as Gordon Fowler
Aurora: Operation Intercept
as Johann Wells
Private Wars
as Chief Carpenter
The Swordsman
as Stratos
Leather Jackets
as Costello
Toy Soldiers
as Jack Thorpe
The Heroes of Desert Storm
as Warrant Officer Hunter
Total Recall
as Helm
False Identity
as Luther
Pink Cadillac
as Ken Lee
The Forgotten
as Sgt. Elmer J. Miller
Fatal Beauty
as Buzz
Stark
as Sam
Beverly Hills Cop
as Casey
History of the World: Part I
as Prehistoric Man
The Woman Inside
as Nolan
Wholly Moses
as Sodom Sentry
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as Party Guest