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Michael Ironside

Born 1950-02-12

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

Nobody 2021 · 7.2 Top Gun 1986 · 7.0 The Machinist 2004 · 7.6 Terminator Salvation 2009 · 6.5 Total Recall 1990 · 7.5 Starship Troopers 1997 · 7.3 Free Willy 1993 · 6.1 BlackBerry 2023 · 7.5 Scanners 1981 · 6.7 Turbo Kid 2015 · 6.8 Highlander II: The Quickening 1991 · 4.2 Major Payne 1995 · 6.3 The Next Karate Kid 1994 · 4.6 Surveillance 2008 · 6.3 Extraterrestrial 2014 · 5.0 Synchronicity 2015 · 5.5 Transformers Prime 2010 · 8.1 The Alphabet Killer 2008 · 5.2 Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone 1983 · 5.5 Lake Placid 3 2010 · 3.3 The Omega Code 1999 · 3.5 Visiting Hours 1982 · 5.7 Watchers 1988 · 5.4 Hardwired 2009 · 4.7 88 2015 · 4.9 The Glass Shield 1994 · 6.1 Father Hood 1993 · 4.9 Crime + Punishment in Suburbia 2000 · 5.8 Patient Seven 2016 · 5.0 Ice Soldiers 2013 · 4.4 Guncrazy 1992 · 5.5 Desert Blue 1999 · 6.1 Children of the Corn: Revelation 2001 · 3.5 Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising 2013 · 7.5 Knuckleball 2018 · 5.7 The Vagrant 1992 · 5.8 Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling 1986 · 6.3 The Bannen Way 2010 · 5.2 Bloodthirsty 2021 · 4.8 Alterscape 2018 · 4.3 The Convent 2018 · 4.1 Save Me 1994 · 4.1 A Fighting Man 2014 · 5.5 Neon City 1991 · 5.3 Condor's Nest 2023 · 4.4 Haunting at the Beacon 2009 · 4.6 Pumpkin Everything 2022 · 6.3 The Butcher 2009 · 5.3 Stay 2013 · 5.6 Dracula: The Original Living Vampire 2022 · 3.1 Beneath the Blue 2010 · 5.2 Stone Cold Dead 1979 · 5.2 Mindfield 1989 · 4.8 Eva 2010 · 5.1 A Twist of Faith 1999 · 4.4 Tin Can 2022 · 4.1 Maximum Velocity 2003 · 3.2 Agency of Vengeance: Dark Rising 2011 · 3.0 Stan Lee's Mighty 7 2014 · 5.6 The Sin Seer 2015 · 3.7 The Harrowing 2017 · 4.1 Confession 2023 · 6.0 The Fight Machine 2022 · 5.0 All God's Children 2012 · 6.4 Danger Zone: The Making of 'Top Gun' 2004 · 6.5