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Michael Champion

Actor

Michael Champion

Born November 3, 1946 in Anderson, Indiana, USADied June 15, 202123 films

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.

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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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Total Recall posterFirst watchTotal Recall19907.3as HelmConstruction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories.View film

Essential films

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Beverly Hills Cop poster7.2Beverly Hills Cop1984History of the World: Part I poster6.7History of the World: Part I1981Toy Soldiers poster6.5Toy Soldiers1991When a Stranger Calls poster6.2When a Stranger Calls197910 poster5.8101979Pink Cadillac poster5.5Pink Cadillac1989Fatal Beauty poster5.6Fatal Beauty1987

Filmography

23 films as actor
  1. 1996Raven HawkGordon Fowler
  2. 1996Dead ColdBill Butler
  3. 1995Aurora: Operation InterceptJohann Wells
  4. 1994Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
  5. 1993Private WarsChief Carpenter
  6. 1992Leather JacketsCostello
  7. 1992The SwordsmanStratos
  8. 1991The Heroes of Desert StormWarrant Officer Hunter
  9. 1991Toy SoldiersJack Thorpe
  10. 1990False IdentityLuther
  11. 1990Total RecallHelm
  12. 1989Pink CadillacKen Lee
  13. 1989One Man Out
  14. 1989The ForgottenSgt. Elmer J. Miller
  15. 1987Fatal BeautyBuzz
  16. 1985Crime of Innocence
  17. 1985StarkSam
  18. 1984Beverly Hills CopCasey
  19. 1981The Woman InsideNolan
  20. 1981History of the World: Part IPrehistoric Man
  21. 1980Wholly MosesSodom Sentry
  22. 197910Party Guest
  23. 1979When a Stranger CallsBill