profile image

Michael Champion

Nov 03, 1946 - Jun 15, 2021 (74 years old) in 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

poster
Hill Street Blues
Pistol Whipped Cabbie
poster
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Boratus
poster
T. J. Hooker
Fleming
poster
Diagnosis: Murder
Big Angie
poster
Matlock
Guard John Jackson
poster
MacGyver
Larson
poster
The Rockford Files
Dwight Deleau
poster
The Incredible Hulk
Del
poster
Knight Rider
Wade Fontaine
poster
Father Dowling Mysteries
Harry Deal

Credits