Michael Warren is a retired American television actor and former college basketball player best known for playing Officer Bobby Hill on the NBC television series Hill Street Blues.
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]
Warren played college basketball at UCLA, where he was a three-year varsity letterman and starting guard from 1966 to 1968. Led by Lew Alcindor, the Bruins posted records of 30–0 in 1967 and 29–1 in 1968. Both teams, coached by legendary coach John Wooden, captured the 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 Airplane!. Warren was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.[6]
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 The District, entitled "The Project". In 2002, he appeared in "Normal Again", an episode of 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.[citation needed] Through Cash, Warren is the father-in-law of American actress Jessica Alba.[8]
