Michael Ironside

Acting · Born 1950-02-12 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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

• Total Recall as Richter
• Starship Troopers as Lieutenant Jean Rasczak
• Top Gun as Jester
• The Machinist as Miller
• X-Men: First Class as Captain
• Late Night with the Devil as The Narrator (voice)
• BlackBerry as Charles Purdy
• Nobody as Eddie Williams
• Terminator Salvation as General Ashdown
• The Perfect Storm as Bob Brown

TV

• Castle as Victor Racine
• Desperate Housewives as Curtis Monroe
• Cold Case as Commandant Murillo
• Tales from the Crypt as Sergeant Burrows
• Criminal Minds as John
• Superman: The Animated Series as Darkseid (voice)
• Smallville as General Sam Lane
• Stargate SG-1 as Seevis
• ER as William Swift
• V as Ham Tyler