Michael Champion

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).

Known For

Casey

Beverly Hills Cop

Helm

Total Recall

Prehistoric Man

History of the World: Part I

Jack Thorpe

Toy Soldiers

Ken Lee

Pink Cadillac

Sgt. Elmer J. Miller

The Forgotten

Party Guest

10

One Man Out

Bill

When a Stranger Calls

Stratos

The Swordsman

Sam

Stark

Bill Butler

Dead Cold

Officer Martner

Forgotten Ingenue

Gordon Fowler

Raven Hawk

Crime of Innocence

Band Member

Entering Red

Costello

Leather Jackets

Warrant Officer Hunter

The Heroes of Desert Storm

Nolan

The Woman Inside

Buzz

Fatal Beauty

Luther

False Identity

Sodom Sentry

Wholly Moses

Johann Wells

Aurora: Operation Intercept

Chief Carpenter

Private Wars

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice