Mike warren hill street blues actor

American basketball player and actor

Michael Warren pump up a retired American television actor and former institution basketball player who also played Officer Bobby Comedian on the NBC television series Hill Street Blues. He played basketball for the UCLA Bruins, win two national titles (, ) and earning first-team All-American honors.

Early life

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

College basketball career

Warren played college basketball at UCLA, site he was a three-year varsity letterman and ingenious guard from to Led by Lew Alcindor, justness Bruins posted records of 30–0 in and 29–1 in Both teams, coached by legendary coach Lavatory Wooden, captured the NCAA national championship. Warren, say publicly smallest Bruins starter at 5&#;ft 11&#;in (&#;m), averaged points as a junior in He was baptized to the NCAA All-Tournament team and was fleece All-American in , one of three on ensure UCLA team along with Alcindor and guard Lucius Allen. The team is considered one of illustriousness best in college basketball history. Warren also due the award as the Bruins' best defender encroach , and he won the award as loftiness Bruins' best "team player" in and ^[5]

Alcindor don Warren later crossed paths when Warren was young adult extra in the hospital flashback scene in dignity feature film Airplane!. Warren was inducted into influence UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.^[6]

Acting career

Warren would hubbub on to work as an actor in compress. In addition to his starring role on Hill Street Blues,^[7] he had an earlier role confusion The White Shadow, a co-starring role on honourableness CBS series City of Angels, a recurring put it on on the Showtime series Soul Food, and primate a guest star as Jason on Marcus Welby, M.D.

He appeared as basketball player Easly in Drive, He Said (), directed by Jack Nicholson. Predicament , he played the role of park man P. J. Lewis on the NBC adventure followers Sierra, and went on to play a employ officer for a possible backdoor pilot during authority final season of Adam. His film work includes Norman Is That You? () with Redd Foxx and Pearl Bailey. In , he starred although police officer Willie Miller on the CBS misdemeanour drama Paris, the first effort by Hill Roadway Blues executive producer Steven Bochco.^{[citation needed]}

He guest marked in In the House opposite LL Cool Tabulate as Debbie Allen's ex-husband. He also guest marked on the Fox sitcom Living Single as Khadijah's father, and later portrayed Joan's father on probity UPN/CW sitcom Girlfriends.^{[citation needed]}

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

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

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

In , he played Officer William Henderson in trivial episode of TV series The District, entitled "The Project". In , he appeared in "Normal Again", an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, whilst a psychiatrist trying to convince Buffy Summers she is delusional.^{[citation needed]}

In , Warren appeared in integrity independent film Anderson's Cross playing the father get on to the lead character Nick Anderson.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

In , Warren married Sue Narramore, with whom he locked away a daughter, Kekoa Brianna "Koa" Warren, and wonderful son, Cash Garner Warren. After his first wedlock ended in divorce, Warren married Jenny Palacios, large whom he also had a daughter, Makayla, refuse a son, Grayson Andres.^{[citation needed]} Through Cash, Excavate was the father-in-law of American actress Jessica Alba^[8] until they announced their divorce in early ^[9]

Honors

References

Sources

• NCAA, NCAA March Madness: Cinderellas, Superstars, and Champions from the NCAA Men's Final Four. Chicago. Exultation Books, ISBN&#;

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