Michael Ironside
Department: Acting
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
Total Recall
1990
Terminator Salvation
2009
Starship Troopers
1997
The Perfect Storm
2000
Top Gun
1986
Free Willy
1993
The Veteran
2006
The Machinist
2004
Surveillance
2008
Extreme Prejudice
1987
Major Payne
1995
Save Me
1994
Fallen Angels
2002
The Next Karate Kid
1994
Hardwired
2009
Confession
2023
Highlander II: The Quickening
1991
Mutants
2008
The Beacon
2009
Children of the Corn: Revelation
2001
Watchers
1988
Scanners
1981
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
1983
Bloodsuckers
2005
McBain
1991
Deepwater
2005
The Alphabet Killer
2008
Guy X
2005
The Omega Code
1999
Reeker
2005
Desert Blue
1999
Stone Cold Dead
1979
Super Dicks
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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
1986
Beneath the Blue
2010
Heavy Metal 2000
2000
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
2000
Father Hood
1993
Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York
2006
Visiting Hours
1982
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
1987
Mental Saboteur
2014
X-Men: First Class
2011
Skipping Stones
2021
Killer Image
1992
Down
2001
Dracula: The Original Living Vampire
2022
The Arrow
1997
Forced to Kill
1994
The Failures
2004
Sweet Killing
1993
Extreme Honor
2001
Point of Impact
1993
The Red Phone: Checkmate
2004
Nowhere to Hide
1987
Johnny 2.0
1998
Mindfield
1989
Neon City
1991
Cold Night Into Dawn
1997
Dead Awake
2001
Destiny To Order
1990
Captive
1998
Hostile Takeover
1989
Black Light
1999
High-Ballin'
1978
Burden of Evil
2012
Dark Rising 2: Summer Strikes Back
2011
Ford: The Man and the Machine
1987
The Terrorist Next Door
2008
Suzanne
1981
Dark Prophecy
2010
Best Revenge
1984
Transgression
2011
Red Sun Rising
1994
Deadly Surveillance
1991
The Arrangement
1999
Marked for Murder
1993
The Killing Machine
1995
Chicago Cab
1998
Maximum Velocity
2003
One Way Out
1996
The Surrogate
1984
Late Night with the Devil
2024
The Vagrant
1992
Dead Man's Revenge
1994
Borderline Normal
2000
Coming Out Alive
1980
Stay
2013
The V Word
2006
Black Ice
1992
A Twist of Faith
1999
I, Maureen
1978
Murder in Space
1985
Cause Of Death
2001
Conduct Unbecoming
2011
The Bannen Way
2010
Stan Lee's Mighty 7
2014
Ice Soldiers
2013
California Winter
2015
The Butcher
2009
Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters - Predacons Rising
2013
Extraterrestrial
2014
1242: Gateway to the West
2025
Surfacing
1981
Liberty
—
Southern Cross
1999
BlackBerry
2023
Voyage of Terror
1998
Pumpkin Everything
2022
Lake Placid 3
2010
Payback
1991
88
2015
Terminal
1996
Bolt
1995
Turbo Kid
2015
Desecrated
2015
Night Trap
1993
Probable Cause
1994
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
Hemingway vs. Callaghan
2003
Portraits of a Killer
1996
The Red Phone: Manhunt
2001
The Family Circus
2023
Condor's Nest
2023
The Family Man
1979
Double Negative
1980
The Fight Machine
2022
Synchronicity
2015
The Sin Seer
2015
The Cap
1985
Children of the Fall
2016
Element
2016
1st Bite
2006
All God's Children
2012
Drop Dead Gorgeous
1991
Kids of the Round Table
1995
Red Scorpion 2
1995
The Sins of Dorian Gray
1983
Murder by Night
1989
Jett Jackson: The Movie
2001
Chaindance
1991
Fortunes of War
1994
Ignition
2002
Soulkeeper
2001
Power Play
1978
Cafe Romeo
1992
The Glass Shield
1994
Mindstorm
2001
Outrageous!
1977
Guncrazy
1992
Storm Cell
2008
A Fighting Man
2014
Eva
2010
Too Fast Too Young
1996
Patient Seven
2016
Question of Privilege
1999
Ivory Tower
1998
Going to Kansas City
1998
Alterscape
2018
The Jazzman
2009
The Convent
2018
Lucky's Treasure
2017
Fairytales and Pornography
2002
Knuckleball
2018
The Harrowing
2017
Stegman Is Dead
2017
Cross Country
1983
Death from Above: The Making of 'Starship Troopers'
2002
Still/Born
2018
Tokyo Cowboy
1994
Hellmington
2018
Clown White
1981
Summer's Children
1979
The Ottawa Valley
1974
One of Our Own
1998
Bloody Wasteland: The Making of Turbo Kid
2015
6:14
2013
The Greatest Show on Turf
2017
American Nightmare
1983
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2015
Bloodthirsty
2021
Tin Can
2022
The Destiny of Marty Fine
1996
Nobody
2021
American Desert
2021
The Jester from Transylvania
2024
Danger Zone: The Making of Top Gun
2004
This Too Shall Pass
2025
Death Row: The Tournament
1998
Talking About the Sky
2025
The Space Between
2017
The Shaft
—
Marrow
—
Off Your Rocker
1982
My Best Friend Depression
—
Medical Investigation
2004
Castle
2009
Cold Squad
1998
The District
2000
Desperate Housewives
2004
The A-Team
1983
seaQuest DSV
1993
Cold Case
2003
Tales from the Crypt
1989
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993
Masters of Horror
2005
Criminal Minds
2005
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
Smallville
2001
Stargate SG-1
1997
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985
ER
1994
The Hitchhiker
1983
FX: The Series
1996
Young Blades
2005
V
1983
The Outer Limits
1995
The Bannen Way
2010
Jackie Chan Adventures
2000
The New Batman Adventures
1997
Justice League
2001
Justice League Unlimited
2004
Community
2009
Ransom
2017
Atropa
2018
Burn Notice
2007
The Flash
2014
Hawaii Five-0
2010
Tales from the Crypt
1989
The Last Chapter: The War Continues
2003
The Outer Limits
1995
The Movies That Made Us
2019
Race for the Bomb
1987
V: The Final Battle
1984
V
1984
Tokyo Trial
2016
Hidden Assets
2021
Justified
2010
Barry
2018
For the Record
1976
Andromeda
2000
This Is Us
2016
Transformers: Prime
2010
The Littlest Hobo
1979
The Dropout
2022
Harley Quinn
2019
The Last Chapter
2002
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
2010
The Detectives
2018
The Alienist
2018
Nuremberg
2000
The Arrow
1997
The Encounter
2016