
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).
Filmography

Forgotten Ingenue
2021
as Officer Martner

Raven Hawk
1996
as Gordon Fowler

Dead Cold
1996
as Bill Butler

Aurora: Operation Intercept
1995
as Johann Wells

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
1994

Private Wars
1993
as Chief Carpenter

Leather Jackets
1992
as Costello

The Swordsman
1992
as Stratos

The Heroes of Desert Storm
1991
as Warrant Officer Hunter

Toy Soldiers
1991
as Jack Thorpe

False Identity
1990
as Luther

Total Recall
1990
as Helm

Pink Cadillac
1989
as Ken Lee

One Man Out
1989

The Forgotten
1989
as Sgt. Elmer J. Miller

Fatal Beauty
1987
as Buzz

Crime of Innocence
1985

Stark
1985
as Sam

Beverly Hills Cop
1984
as Casey

The Woman Inside
1981
as Nolan

History of the World: Part I
1981
as Prehistoric Man

Wholly Moses
1980
as Sodom Sentry

10
1979
as Party Guest

When a Stranger Calls
1979
as Bill