Michael Champion
Known For
Acting
Born
1946-11-03 in Anderson, Indiana, USA
Died
2021-06-15
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).
Most Known For
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Boratus
MacGyver
as Larson
Diagnosis: Murder
as Big Angie
Knight Rider
as Wade Fontaine
Knight Rider
as Monk
The Incredible Hulk
as Del
The Rockford Files
as Dwight Deleau
Hill Street Blues
as Pistol Whipped Cabbie
ALF
as Sgt. Matt Fox
Matlock
as Guard John Jackson
21 Jump Street
as Facility Director
The Flash
as Captain Cold
T. J. Hooker
as Fleming
Lou Grant
as Red Keough
Tour of Duty
as M.P. Sergeant
Total Recall
as Helm
Beverly Hills Cop
as Casey
Viper
as Erick Van Hook
V
as Garrison
Father Dowling Mysteries
as Harry Deal