Michael Ironside
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as Jester Top Gun 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).
Filmography
X-Men: First Class
as Captain
Top Gun
as Jester
Nobody
as Eddie Williams
Terminator Salvation
as General Ashdown
Total Recall
as Richter
The Machinist
as Miller
Starship Troopers
as Lieutenant Jean Rasczak
The Perfect Storm
as Bob Brown
Late Night with the Devil
as The Narrator (voice)
Free Willy
as Dial
Scanners
as Darryl Revok
The Next Karate Kid
as Colonel Paul Dugan
Highlander II: The Quickening
as Gen. Katana
Major Payne
as Lt. Col. Stone
BlackBerry
as Charles Purdy
Turbo Kid
as Zeus
Extraterrestrial
as Travis
Synchronicity
as Klaus Meisner
Surveillance
as Billings
Reeker
as Henry