Michael Champion
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 3 November 1946 · Anderson, Indiana, USA
- Died
- 15 June 2021
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
Acting 25
- 2021Forgotten Ingenue as Officer Martner
- 2019Entering Red as Band Member
- 1996Raven Hawk as Gordon Fowler
- 1996Dead Cold as Bill Butler
- 1995Aurora: Operation Intercept as Johann Wells
- 1994Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
- 1993Private Wars as Chief Carpenter
- 1992Leather Jackets as Costello
- 1992The Swordsman as Stratos
- 1991The Heroes of Desert Storm as Warrant Officer Hunter
- 1991Toy Soldiers as Jack Thorpe
- 1990False Identity as Luther
- 1990Total Recall as Helm
- 1989Pink Cadillac as Ken Lee
- 1989One Man Out
- 1989The Forgotten as Sgt. Elmer J. Miller
- 1987Fatal Beauty as Buzz
- 1985Crime of Innocence
- 1985Stark as Sam
- 1984Beverly Hills Cop as Casey
- 1981The Woman Inside as Nolan
- 1981History of the World: Part I as Prehistoric Man
- 1980Wholly Moses as Sodom Sentry
- 197910 as Party Guest
- 1979When a Stranger Calls as Bill