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

Viper 1994 ★ 6.2
Diagnosis: Murder 1993 ★ 7.1
Toy Soldiers 1991 ★ 6.5
Total Recall 1990 ★ 7.3
The Flash 1990 ★ 7.4
Father Dowling Mysteries 1989 ★ 7.4
Pink Cadillac 1989 ★ 5.5
Star Trek: The Next Generation 1987 ★ 8.4
21 Jump Street 1987 ★ 7.3
Tour of Duty 1987 ★ 8.1
A Year in the Life 1987 ★ 7.2
Matlock 1986 ★ 7.1
ALF 1986 ★ 7.6
MacGyver 1985 ★ 7.7
Beverly Hills Cop 1984 ★ 7.2
V 1984 ★ 7.1
Knight Rider 1982 ★ 7.5
T. J. Hooker 1982 ★ 6.5
Hill Street Blues 1981 ★ 7.6
10 1979 ★ 5.8
When a Stranger Calls 1979 ★ 6.2
The Incredible Hulk 1977 ★ 7.2
Lou Grant 1977 ★ 7.4
The Rockford Files 1974 ★ 7.6