Michael Ironside
Birthplace: Toronto
Born: 1950-02-12
Occupations recorded in source
actor; film actor; film director; screenwriter; television actor; voice actor
Biography from Wikipedia
Frederick Reginald Ironside (born February 12, 1950), known professionally as Michael Ironside, is a Canadian actor. A prominent character actor with more than 270 film and television credits, he is known for playing villains and antiheroes, but has also portrayed sympathetic characters. He is best known for his roles in action and science fiction films, and had his breakthrough performance in the 1981 David Cronenberg film Scanners.
Ironside's other notable roles include Overdog in Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983), "Jester" in Top Gun (1986), Richter in Total Recall (1990), and Rasczak in Starship Troopers (1997). His signature deep voice has been lent to various video games and animated television shows, most notably as Sam Fisher in the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell franchise and Darkseid in the DC Animated Universe.
He is a four-time Gemini Award, a Genie Award, and a Canadian Film Award nominee.
Sources & attribution
Wikidata · revision
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Wikipedia · revision 1376694139
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Films in Cinema Hound
Acting
- 1242: Gateway to the West (2025)
- BlackBerry (2023) — Charles Purdy
- Condor's Nest (2023) — Yuri Astakhov
- Pumpkin Everything (2022) — Tom
- Nobody (2021) — Eddie Williams
- Bloodthirsty (2020) — Dr. Swan
- Tin Can (2020)
- Knuckleball (2018) — Jacob
- Tokyo Trial (2018)
- Still/Born (2017) — Dr. Neilson
- The Space Between (2017)
- Patient Seven (2016) — Dr. Daniel Marcus
- Synchronicity (2015) — Klaus Meisner
- Turbo Kid (2015) — Zeus
- A Fighting Man (2014) — Max Wynn
- Extraterrestrial (2014) — Travis
- Ice Soldiers (2013) — Col. Desmond Trump
- Stay (2013)
- Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising (2013) — Ultra Magnus
- Burden of Evil (2012) — Sen. Pitfield
- Dark Rising 2: Summer Strikes Back! (2011) — Colonel Haggerd
- Transgression (2011)
- X-Men: First Class (2011) — Captain
- Beneath the Blue (2010) — Blaine
- Eva (2010)
- Lake Placid 3 (2010) — Sheriff Tony Willinger
- The Bannen Way (2010) — Chief Bannen
- Hardwired (2009) — Hal
- Terminator Salvation (2009) — General Ashdown
- The Beacon (2009) — Lt. Hutton
- Mutants (2008)
- Storm Cell (2008) — James
- Surveillance (2008) — Billings
- The Alphabet Killer (2008) — Nathan Norcross
- The Terrorist Next Door (2008)
- Disaster Zone - Volcano In New York (2006) — Levering
- The Veteran (2006) — Mark 'Doc' Jordan
- Bloodsuckers (2005) — Muco
- Deepwater (2005) — Walnut
- Guy X (2005) — Guy X
Frequent collaborators
Shared films in this catalogue.
- Marshall Bell · 4 films
- Casper Van Dien · 3 films
- Currie Graham · 3 films
- Mickey Jones · 3 films
- Richard Riehle · 3 films
- Alan C. Peterson · 2 films
Catalogue credits: Wikidata and Open Media Database. Sources & licences.