Michael Warren (actor)

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Career highlights and awards
  • 2×
    1968
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  • First-team
    USBWA
  • First-team All-AAWU (1968)
  • 2× Second-team All-AAWU (1966, 1967)
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Michael Warren is a retired American television actor and former college basketball player who also played Officer Bobby Hill on the NBC television series Hill Street Blues. He played basketball for the UCLA Bruins, winning two national titles (1967, 1968) and earning first-team All-American honors.

Early life

Warren was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, the son of Ellen and Grayson Warren.[2] He attended Central High School, where as a senior he was class president.[3] He was twice named to the Indiana all-state team. He graduated in 1964 as Bears' career, season, and single-game scoring leader. In 1992, he was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.[4]

College basketball career

Warren shoots the ball in the Game of the Century in 1968

Warren played college basketball at

NCAA national championship. Warren, the smallest Bruins starter at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), averaged 12.4 points as a junior in 1967. He was named to the NCAA All-Tournament team and was an All-American in 1968, one of three on that UCLA team along with Alcindor and guard Lucius Allen. The team is considered one of the best in college basketball history. Warren also earned the award as the Bruins' best defender in 1966, and he won the award as the Bruins' best "team player" in 1967 and 1968.[5]

Alcindor and Warren later crossed paths when Warren was an extra in the hospital flashback scene in the 1980 feature film

UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.[6]

Acting career

Warren would go on to work as an actor in television. In addition to his starring role on

CBS series City of Angels, a recurring role on the Showtime series Soul Food, and as a guest star as Jason on Marcus Welby, M.D.

He appeared as basketball player Easly in

backdoor pilot during the final 1975 season of Adam-12. His film work includes Norman... Is That You? (1976) with Redd Foxx and Pearl Bailey. In 1979, he starred as police officer Willie Miller on the CBS crime drama Paris, the first effort by Hill Street Blues executive producer Steven Bochco.[citation needed
]

He guest starred in

Girlfriends.[citation needed
]

Warren played

Darrin Dewitt Henson's boss on the Showtime show Soul Food, in which he played hustler-turned-entrepreneur Baron Marks. He had a recurring role on the ABC Family series Lincoln Heights as Spencer Sutton, Eddie's father.[citation needed
]

He played Pete Bancroft in the Tales from the Darkside episode, "Satanic Piano" (1985). Warren appeared as Virgil Tibbs' former longtime police partner and friend, Matthew Pogue on In the Heat of the Night episode "The Hammer and the Glove", which aired in 1988.

In 1996, he was on the Early Edition episode Hoops. He played Wells in the Sliders episode (5/8) "Java Jive" (1999).

In 2001, he played Officer William Henderson in an episode of TV series

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as a psychiatrist trying to convince Buffy Summers she is delusional.[citation needed
]

In 2010, Warren appeared in the independent film Anderson's Cross playing the father of the lead character Nick Anderson.[citation needed]

Personal life

In 1974, Warren married Sue Narramore, with whom he had a daughter, Kekoa Brianna "Koa" Warren, and a son, Cash Garner Warren. After his first marriage ended in divorce, Warren married Jenny Palacios, with whom he also had a daughter, Makayla, and a son, Grayson Andres.[

father-in-law of American actress Jessica Alba.[8]

Honors

References

  1. ^ "Mike Warren College Stats". Sports Reference. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
  2. ^ "Family, faith play a part Mike Warren credits parents". schurz-southbendtribune. Archived from the original on 2018-11-01. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
  3. ^ "'UCLA was the ticket' for basketball star - South Bend Tribune". Archived from the original on 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  4. ^ graduated in 1964 as Bears' career, season, and single-game scoring leader
  5. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-01. Retrieved 2014-04-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Mike Warren - Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame". hoopshall.com/.
  7. ^ Todd Leopold (April 29, 2014). "'Hill Street Blues': The most influential TV show ever". CNN.
  8. ^ "Jessica Alba Welcomes a Baby Girl". People. June 7, 2008. Retrieved June 7, 2008.
Sources
  • NCAA, NCAA March Madness: Cinderellas, Superstars, and Champions from the NCAA Men's Final Four. Chicago. Triumph Books, 2004.
    ISBN 1-57243-665-4

External links
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