Michael Champion

Michael Champion was an American singer and actor whose public career began in Detroit, where he was part of a short-lived band, The Abstract Reality, that put out the single Love Burns Like A Fire Inside in 1967. He went on to form Scorpion with Bob Kreinar, Ray Monette and Andrew Smith, and as Mike Campbell he appeared on the album Scorpion and on Meat Loaf's debut album Stoney and Meatloaf (1971), co-writing four songs and playing harmonica on Lady Be Mine. He then acted under the name Michael Champion, working in television and film from 1979. His credits included the series Matlock, Diagnosis Murder and The Flash, in which he played Captain Cold, plus the movies History of the World: Part I, Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Total Recall (1990) and Toy Soldiers (1991), and characters in the video games Flash Traffic: City of Angels (1994) and Maximum Surge (1996).