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Name
Michael Ironside

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1950-02-12 (76 years old)

Place of Birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Biography

Frederick Reginald Ironside (born February 12, 1950), known professionally as Michael Ironside, is a Canadian actor. He has worked as a voice actor, producer, film director, and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American productions. He gained early widespread recognition for his terrifying portrayal of the deadly psychic Darryl Revok in David Cronenberg's Scanners (1981) and was equally chilling as the misogynistic psychopath Colt Hawker in Visiting Hours (1982). Ironside followed that up by playing Jester in Top Gun (1986). Recently, Ironside is known for his roles as Eddie Williams in Nobody (2021) and Charles Purdy in BlackBerry (2023).

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1990 Total Recall as Richter
2009 Terminator Salvation as General Ashdown
1997 Starship Troopers as Lieutenant Jean Rasczak
2000 The Perfect Storm as Bob Brown
1986 Top Gun as Jester
1993 Free Willy as Dial
2006 The Veteran as Mark 'Doc' Jordan
2004 The Machinist as Miller
2008 Surveillance as Billings
1987 Extreme Prejudice as Major Paul Hackett
1995 Major Payne as Lt. Colonel Stone
1994 Save Me as Oliver
2002 Fallen Angels as Sheriff Ed Rooney
1994 The Next Karate Kid as Dugan
2009 Hardwired as Hal
2023 Confession
1991 Highlander II: The Quickening as Gen. Katana
2008 Mutants as Colonal Gauge
2009 The Beacon as Oficer Ned Hutton
1988 Watchers as Lem Johnson
1981 Scanners as Darryl Revok
1983 Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone as OverDog
2005 Bloodsuckers as Muco
1991 McBain as Frank Bruce
2005 Deepwater as Walnut
2008 The Alphabet Killer as Captain Nathan Norcross
2005 Guy X as Guy X
1999 The Omega Code as Dominic
2005 Reeker as Henry
1999 Desert Blue as Agent Frank Bellows
1979 Stone Cold Dead as Murdered Police Detective
Soon Super Dicks as Police Chief
1986 Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling as Detective Lawrence
2010 Beneath the Blue as Blaine
2000 Heavy Metal 2000 as Tyler (voice)
2000 Crime + Punishment in Suburbia as Fred Skolnick
1993 Father Hood as Jerry
2006 Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York as Levering
1982 Visiting Hours as Colt Hawker
1987 Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II as Bill Nordham
2014 Mental Saboteur as Self
2011 X-Men: First Class as Captain
2021 Skipping Stones as Mr. Travers
1992 Killer Image as Luther Kane
2001 Down as Gunter Steinberg
2022 Dracula: The Original Living Vampire as Dr. Jack Seward
1997 The Arrow as CIA Director
1994 Forced to Kill as Sheriff Wilson
2004 The Failures as Depressor
1993 Sweet Killing as Inspector Garcia
2001 Extreme Honor as Baker
1993 Point of Impact as Roberto Largo
2004 The Red Phone: Checkmate as Bremer
1987 Nowhere to Hide as Ben
1998 Johnny 2.0 as Frank Donahue
1989 Mindfield as Kellen O'Reilly
1991 Neon City as Harry M. Stark
1997 Cold Night Into Dawn as Frank Parr
2001 Dead Awake as Skay
1990 Destiny To Order as Kenrick
1998 Captive as Detective Briscoe
1989 Hostile Takeover as Larry Gaylord
1999 Black Light as Inspector Frank Schumann
1978 High-Ballin' as Butch
2012 Burden of Evil as Senator Pitfield
2011 Dark Rising 2: Summer Strikes Back as Col. Haggard
1987 Ford: The Man and the Machine as Harry Bennett
2008 The Terrorist Next Door as Wade
1981 Suzanne as Jimmy
2010 Dark Prophecy as Tom Riggins
1984 Best Revenge as Dealer
2011 Transgression as Matthew
1994 Red Sun Rising as Capt. Meisler
1991 Deadly Surveillance as Fender
1999 The Arrangement as Det. Francis John 'Jack' Connor
1993 Marked for Murder as Bats O'Bannion
1995 The Killing Machine as Mr. Green
1998 Chicago Cab as Al
2003 Maximum Velocity as General Amberson
1996 One Way Out as Walt
1984 The Surrogate as George Kyber
2024 Late Night with the Devil as The Narrator (voice)
1992 The Vagrant as Lt. Ralf Barfuss
1994 Dead Man's Revenge as Luck Hatcher
2000 Borderline Normal as Coach Rehmer
1980 Coming Out Alive as Gateway
2013 Stay as Frank
2006 The V Word as Mr. Chaney
1992 Black Ice as Quinn
1999 A Twist of Faith as Alex Hunt
1978 I, Maureen as Dr. Paul Oswald
1985 Murder in Space as Capt. Neal Braddock
2001 Cause Of Death as Jonas Phifer
2011 Conduct Unbecoming as Col. Dodd
2010 The Bannen Way as Chief Bannen
2014 Stan Lee's Mighty 7 as Xanar (voice)
2013 Ice Soldiers as Col. Desmond Trump
2015 California Winter as Sheriff Hillman
2009 The Butcher as Teddy Carmichael
2013 Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters - Predacons Rising as Ultra Magnus (voice)
2014 Extraterrestrial as Travis
2025 1242: Gateway to the West as Narrator / Mihaly
1981 Surfacing as Wayne
Soon Liberty as Fischer
1999 Southern Cross as Garrison Carver
2023 BlackBerry as Charles Purdy
1998 Voyage of Terror as McBride
2022 Pumpkin Everything as Tom
2010 Lake Placid 3 as Sheriff Tony Willinger
1991 Payback as Sheriff Pete
2015 88 as Sheriff Knowles
1996 Terminal as Sterling Rombauer
1995 Bolt as Billy Niles
2015 Turbo Kid as Zeus
2015 Desecrated as Tom McClain
1993 Night Trap as Bishop
1994 Probable Cause as Gary Yanuck
1985 The Falcon and the Snowman as FBI Agent
2003 Hemingway vs. Callaghan as Harry
1996 Portraits of a Killer as Sgt. Ernie Hansen
2001 The Red Phone: Manhunt as Section Chief
2023 The Family Circus as The Cop
2023 Condor's Nest as Agent Astakhov
1979 The Family Man as Bartender
1980 Double Negative as Edgar
2022 The Fight Machine as Lou
2015 Synchronicity as Klaus Meisner
2015 The Sin Seer as Alexander Rachet
1985 The Cap as Dad
2016 Children of the Fall as Sam
2016 Element as Joe
2006 1st Bite as Theo
2012 All God's Children as Peter
1991 Drop Dead Gorgeous as Asylum Interrogator (uncredited)
1995 Kids of the Round Table as Butch Scarsdale
1995 Red Scorpion 2 as Col. West
1983 The Sins of Dorian Gray as Alan Campbell
1989 Murder by Night as Det. Carl Madsen
2001 Jett Jackson: The Movie as Dr. Kragg
1991 Chaindance as J.T. Blake
1994 Fortunes of War as Carl Pimmler
2002 Ignition as Jake Russo
2001 Soulkeeper as Voice of Mr.M (uncredited)
1978 Power Play as Torturer
1992 Cafe Romeo as Natino
1994 The Glass Shield as Det. Gene Baker
2001 Mindstorm as Senator Bill Armitage
1977 Outrageous! as Drunk
1992 Guncrazy as Mr. Kincaid
2008 Storm Cell as James
2014 A Fighting Man as Max Wynn
2010 Eva as Alfonse
1996 Too Fast Too Young as Capt. Floyd Anderson
2016 Patient Seven as Dr. Daniel Marcus
1999 Question of Privilege as Lt. Robert Ingram
1998 Ivory Tower as Marshall Wallace
1998 Going to Kansas City as Mike Malone
2018 Alterscape as Dr. Julian Loro
2009 The Jazzman as Bernie Kaddly
2018 The Convent as The Magistrate
2017 Lucky's Treasure as Henry Landis
2002 Fairytales and Pornography as Justice Coulton
2018 Knuckleball as Jacob
2017 The Harrowing as Lt. Logan
2017 Stegman Is Dead as Don
1983 Cross Country as Det. Sgt. Roersch
2002 Death from Above: The Making of 'Starship Troopers' as Himself
2018 Still/Born
1994 Tokyo Cowboy as Lyle
2018 Hellmington as Rupert Woodhouse
1981 Clown White as Max
1979 Summer's Children as Pimp
1974 The Ottawa Valley as Soldier on train (uncredited)
1998 One of Our Own as Det. Jack Cooper
2015 Bloody Wasteland: The Making of Turbo Kid
2013 6:14 as Warden
2017 The Greatest Show on Turf as Narrator
1983 American Nightmare as Sgt. Skylar (as Mike Ironside)
2015 Sean Connery: In His Own Words as Self
2021 Bloodthirsty as Dr. Swan
2022 Tin Can as Wayne
1996 The Destiny of Marty Fine as Mr. Capelli
2021 Nobody as Eddie Williams
2021 American Desert as Uncle Bill
2024 The Jester from Transylvania as Charles Pennington
2004 Danger Zone: The Making of Top Gun as Self
2025 This Too Shall Pass as Officer Shultz
1998 Death Row: The Tournament as The Judge
2025 Talking About the Sky as Officer Alfred Henry(voz)
2017 The Space Between as Nick
2026 Marrow as Dr. Jonathan Myers
1982 Off Your Rocker as Victor
Soon My Best Friend Depression as Ralph Johnson
2026 Ashes as Uncle
Soon Deep Tissue as Uncle Nik
2017 Tokyo Trial as Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Soon Heavy Metal 2000: Voice Talent Featurette as Self
2001 Children of the Corn: Revelation as Priest
2023 In Action with Michael Ironside as Self
2023 Barfuss, Homicide as Self
2026 Crash Land as Monty
2018 Fran K.: Frankenstein as Peter Berns

2004 Medical Investigation ( 1 episode ) as Ben Graybridge
2009 Castle ( 1 episode ) as Victor Racine
1998 Cold Squad ( 1 episode )
2000 The District ( 2 episodes ) as Dmitri Putin
2004 Desperate Housewives ( 2 episodes ) as Curtis Monroe
1983 The A-Team ( 1 episode ) as Miler Crane
1993 seaQuest DSV ( 13 episodes ) as Captain Oliver Hudson
2003 Cold Case ( 2 episodes ) as Commandant Murillo
1989 Tales from the Crypt ( 1 episode ) as Sergeant Burrows
1985 The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as Lt. Rick Muldoon
1993 Walker, Texas Ranger ( 4 episodes ) as Nolan Pierce
2005 Masters of Horror ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Chaney
2005 Criminal Minds ( 1 episode ) as John
1996 Superman: The Animated Series ( 7 episodes ) as Darkseid (voice)
2001 Smallville ( 3 episodes ) as Sam Lane
1997 Stargate SG-1 ( 1 episode ) as Seevis
1985 The Ray Bradbury Theater ( 1 episode ) as William Acton
1994 ER ( 6 episodes ) as William Swift
1983 The Hitchhiker ( 1 episode ) as Sheriff Lee
1996 FX: The Series ( 1 episode ) as Montree
2005 Young Blades ( 13 episodes )
1983 V ( 0 episode ) as Ham Tyler
1995 The Outer Limits ( 1 episode ) as Ambassador Prosser
2010 The Bannen Way ( 16 episodes ) as Chief Bannen
2000 Jackie Chan Adventures ( 1 episode ) as Dragon Scout Leader (voice)
1997 The New Batman Adventures ( 1 episode ) as 80's Batman (voice)
2001 Justice League ( 2 episodes ) as Darkseid (voice)
2004 Justice League Unlimited ( 2 episodes ) as Darkseid (voice)
2009 Community ( 1 episode ) as Colonel Archwood
2017 Ransom ( 3 episodes ) as Freddie Woods
2018 Atropa ( 1 episode ) as Captain Schreiber
2007 Burn Notice ( 1 episode ) as Gregory Hart
2014 The Flash ( 1 episode ) as Lewis Snart
2010 Hawaii Five-0 ( 1 episode ) as Robert Castor
1989 Tales from the Crypt ( 1 episode ) as Jerry
2003 The Last Chapter: The War Continues ( 6 episodes ) as Bob Durelle
1995 The Outer Limits ( 1 episode ) as Gen. Quince
2019 The Movies That Made Us ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
1987 Race for the Bomb ( 3 episodes ) as Werner Heisenberg
1984 V: The Final Battle ( 3 episodes ) as Ham Tyler
1984 V ( 12 episodes ) as Ham Tyler
2016 Tokyo Trial ( 4 episodes ) as General Douglas MacArthur
2021 Hidden Assets ( 6 episodes ) as Richard Melnick
2010 Justified ( 1 episode ) as Sarno
2018 Barry ( 2 episodes ) as Andrei
1976 For the Record ( 1 episode )
2000 Andromeda ( 2 episodes ) as The Patriarch
2016 This Is Us ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Pearson
2010 Transformers: Prime ( 13 episodes ) as Ultra Magnus (voice)
1979 The Littlest Hobo ( 1 episode ) as Bill
2022 The Dropout ( 2 episodes ) as Don Lucas
2019 Harley Quinn ( 4 episodes ) as Darkseid (voice)
2002 The Last Chapter ( 7 episodes ) as Bob Durelle
2010 R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour ( 2 episodes ) as Margolin
2018 The Detectives ( 1 episode ) as Detective Mark Anstey
2018 The Alienist ( 4 episodes ) as J. P. Morgan
2000 Nuremberg ( 2 episodes ) as Colonel Burton Andrus
1997 The Arrow ( 2 episodes ) as CIA Director
2016 The Encounter ( 1 episode ) as Maximum Mike
2012 Vegas ( 4 episodes ) as Porter Gainsley

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