Michael Champion
Actor
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).
Filmography
Beverly Hills Cop
as Casey 1984
History of the World: Part I
as Prehistoric Man 1981
Toy Soldiers
as Jack Thorpe 1991
When a Stranger Calls
as Bill 1979
10
as Party Guest 1979
Pink Cadillac
as Ken Lee 1989
Fatal Beauty
as Buzz 1987
Wholly Moses
as Sodom Sentry 1980
The Swordsman
as Stratos 1992
Leather Jackets
as Costello 1992
Raven Hawk
as Gordon Fowler 1996
One Man Out
1989
Aurora: Operation Intercept
as Johann Wells 1995
The Forgotten
as Sgt. Elmer J. Miller 1989
Entering Red
as Band Member 2019
False Identity
as Luther 1990