---
name: "Michael Champion"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-champion"
fi1m_id: "michael-champion"
imdb_id: "nm0150720"
tmdb_id: 790
wikidata_id: "Q6829079"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 November 1946"
died: "15 June 2021"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-18T07:57:44.263712+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Michael Champion

## Identity

Michael Champion

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-champion
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-champion
- **IMDb ID:** nm0150720
- **TMDB ID:** 790
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6829079
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Champion, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6829079, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0150720/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/790

Actor. Born 3 November 1946 in Anderson, Indiana, USA. Died 15 June 2021.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 November 1946, Anderson, Indiana, USA
- **Died:** 15 June 2021
- **Active:** 1984–1990
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 55 (1), 1990s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Champion, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6829079, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0150720/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/790

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Total Recall*](https://film.one/film/total-recall.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Michael Champion (born Michael Edward Campbell) was an American actor and musician. He began his career in Detroit as a singer and songwriter, releasing a single with the band Abstract Reality in 1967 and performing with Scorpion. He appeared as Mike Campbell on the 1969 Scorpion album and Meat Loaf's 1971 debut album Stoney & Meatloaf, co-writing four songs and playing harmonica on one track.

Champion began acting under his professional name in 1979. He is known for supporting roles in films including *History of the World: Part I* (1981), *Beverly Hills Cop* (1984), *Total Recall* (1990) as Helm, and *Toy Soldiers* (1991). His television credits include appearances in *Knight Rider* (1982), *ALF* (1986), *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1987), *Matlock* (1989), *The Flash* (1990) and *Diagnosis: Murder* (1993). He died in Casper, Wyoming, in 2021.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, memory-alpha.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Total Recall* (1990), Fi1m 84, as Helm — [page](https://film.one/film/total-recall.md)
- *Beverly Hills Cop* (1984), Fi1m 55, as Casey — [page](https://film.one/film/beverly-hills-cop.md)

## Complete filmography (42)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *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), Actor
- *Viper* (1994), series, as Erick Van Hook
- *Diagnosis: Murder* (1993), series, as Big Angie
- *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
- *The Flash* (1990), series, as Captain Cold
- *False Identity* (1990), as Luther
- *Total Recall* (1990), as Helm — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/total-recall.md)
- *Pink Cadillac* (1989), as Ken Lee
- *One Man Out* (1989), Actor
- *The Forgotten* (1989), as Sgt. Elmer J. Miller
- *Father Dowling Mysteries* (1989), series, as Harry Deal
- *Fatal Beauty* (1987), as Buzz
- *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1987), series, as Boratus — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-the-next-generation.md)
- *Tour of Duty* (1987), series, as M.P. Sergeant
- *A Year in the Life* (1987), series, as Jim Scully
- *21 Jump Street* (1987), series, as Facility Director
- *ALF* (1986), series, as Matt Fox
- *Matlock* (1986), series, as Guard John Jackson
- *Crime of Innocence* (1985), Actor
- *MacGyver* (1985), series, as Larson
- *Stark* (1985), as Sam
- *Beverly Hills Cop* (1984), as Casey — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/beverly-hills-cop.md)
- *V* (1984), series, as Garrison
- *Knight Rider* (1982), series, as Wade Fontaine, Monk
- *T. J. Hooker* (1982), series, as Fleming
- *The Woman Inside* (1981), as Nolan
- *History of the World: Part I* (1981), as Prehistoric Man
- *Hill Street Blues* (1981), series, as Pistol Whipped Cabbie — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/hill-street-blues.md)
- *Wholly Moses* (1980), as Sodom Sentry
- *10* (1979), as Party Guest
- *When a Stranger Calls* (1979), as Bill
- *The Incredible Hulk* (1977), series, as Del
- *Lou Grant* (1977), series, as Red Keough
- *The Rockford Files* (1974), series, as Dwight Deleau — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-rockford-files.md)

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/michael-champion