Michael Champion

Michael Champion

1946-11-03 – 2021-06-15 (age 74) Anderson, Indiana, USA
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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).

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Known For

Total Recall
Total Recall

1990

as Helm

Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop

1984

as Casey

10
10

1979

as Party Guest

Raven Hawk
Raven Hawk

1996

as Gordon Fowler

Pink Cadillac
Pink Cadillac

1989

as Ken Lee

Toy Soldiers
Toy Soldiers

1991

as Jack Thorpe

History of the World: Part I
History of the World: Part I

1981

as Prehistoric Man

Fatal Beauty
Fatal Beauty

1987

as Buzz

Leather Jackets
Leather Jackets

1992

as Costello

The Forgotten
The Forgotten

1989

as Sgt. Elmer J. Miller

When a Stranger Calls
Dead Cold
Dead Cold

1996

as Bill Butler

Stark
Stark

1985

as Sam

Wholly Moses
Wholly Moses

1980

as Sodom Sentry

The Swordsman
The Swordsman

1992

as Stratos

Aurora: Operation Intercept
Aurora: Operation Intercept

1995

as Johann Wells

The Heroes of Desert Storm
The Heroes of Desert Storm

1991

as Warrant Officer Hunter

Private Wars
Private Wars

1993

as Chief Carpenter

Crime of Innocence