Michael Ironside
Known for 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).
Filmography
Nobody
2021
as Eddie Williams
Top Gun
1986
as Jester
Total Recall
1990
as Richter
Terminator Salvation
2009
as General Ashdown
Starship Troopers
1997
as Lieutenant Jean Rasczak
Desert Blue
1999
as Agent Frank Bellows
Late Night with the Devil
2024
as The Narrator (voice)
The Perfect Storm
2000
as Bob Brown
The Machinist
2004
as Miller
BlackBerry
2023
as Charles Purdy
Major Payne
1995
as Lt. Col. Stone
Free Willy
1993
as Dial
The Next Karate Kid
1994
as Colonel Paul Dugan
Down
2001
as Gunter Steinberg
Mindfield
1989
as Kellen O'Reilly
Stone Cold Dead
1979
as Murdered Police Detective
Highlander II: The Quickening
1991
as Gen. Katana
Night Trap
1993
as Bishop
Scanners
1981
as Darryl Revok
The Glass Shield
1994
as Det. Gene Baker