
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).

Total Recall
1990 · as Helm

Toy Soldiers
1991 · as Jack Thorpe

Beverly Hills Cop
1984 · as Casey

Pink Cadillac
1989 · as Ken Lee

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1979 · as Party Guest

History of the World: Part I
1981 · as Prehistoric Man

Leather Jackets
1992 · as Costello

Fatal Beauty
1987 · as Buzz

When a Stranger Calls
1979 · as Bill

Wholly Moses
1980 · as Sodom Sentry

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
1994

Raven Hawk
1996 · as Gordon Fowler

The Forgotten
1989 · as Sgt. Elmer J. Miller

Private Wars
1993 · as Chief Carpenter

One Man Out
1989

Crime of Innocence
1985

The Swordsman
1992 · as Stratos

False Identity
1990 · as Luther