Michael Warren (born March 5, 1946 in South Bend, Indiana) is an American TV actor and former college basketball player, best known for playing Officer Bobby Hill on the NBC television series Hill Street Blues.
As a college basketball player, Warren was an All-American at UCLA, where he and Lew Alcindor (later to be known in his professional NBA career as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) were members of the 1967 and 1968 Bruin teams that won two NCAA champio...
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Michael Warren (born March 5, 1946 in South Bend, Indiana) is an American TV actor and former college basketball player, best known for playing Officer Bobby Hill on the NBC television series Hill Street Blues.
As a college basketball player, Warren was an All-American at UCLA, where he and Lew Alcindor (later to be known in his professional NBA career as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) were members of the 1967 and 1968 Bruin teams that won two NCAA championship titles under legendary coach John Wooden. Warren, the smallest Bruin starter at 5' 11", averaged 12.4 points as a junior in 1967 and was named to the NCAA All-Tournament team in 1968.
Warren would go on to work as an actor in television. In addition to his starring role on Hill Street Blues, he had an earlier role on The White Shadow, and a co-starring role on the CBS television series City of Angels, and a recurring role on the Showtime television series Soul Food. Before Hill Street, in 1974, he played the role of park ranger P. J....
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