Michael Ironside
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).
256 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 256
Criminal Minds
2005
Smallville
2001
The Flash
2014
Castle
2009
Stargate SG-1
1997
Desperate Housewives
2004
Hawaii Five-0
2010
ER
1994
The A-Team
1983
This Is Us
2016
Cold Case
2003
Jackie Chan Adventures
2000
Burn Notice
2007
Community
2009
Justified
2010
Andromeda
2000
The Outer Limits
1995
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
Harley Quinn
2019
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993
seaQuest DSV
1993
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
The District
2000
Masters of Horror
2005
Barry
2018
Justice League Unlimited
2004
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
2010
Transformers: Prime
2010
The Alienist
2018
Top Gun
1986
The Hitchhiker
1983
Ransom
2017
Cold Squad
1998
Nobody
2021
V
1984
The New Batman Adventures
1997
Justice League
2001
FX: The Series
1996
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985
The Movies That Made Us
2019
Medical Investigation
2004
Total Recall
1990
The Littlest Hobo
1979
Starship Troopers
1997
Hidden Assets
2021
The Dropout
2022
Terminator Salvation
2009
V
1983
The Machinist
2004
The Perfect Storm
2000
Nuremberg
2000
Late Night with the Devil
2024
Major Payne
1995
V: The Final Battle
1984
For the Record
1976
BlackBerry
2023
The Next Karate Kid
1994
The Bannen Way
2010
Free Willy
1993
Tokyo Trial
2016
Young Blades
2005
Highlander II: The Quickening
1991
Scanners
1981
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
The Encounter
2016
The Detectives
2018
Heavy Metal 2000
2000
Lake Placid 3
2010
The Arrow
1997
Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters - Predacons Rising
2013
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
1983
Watchers
1988
The Convent
2018
Save Me
1994
Condor's Nest
2023
1242: Gateway to the West
2025
Turbo Kid
2015
Extraterrestrial
2014
Guncrazy
1992
Hardwired
2009
Down
2001
Patient Seven
2016
Synchronicity
2015
Atropa
2018
The Alphabet Killer
2008
Surveillance
2008
Desert Blue
1999
McBain
1991
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
1986
Extreme Prejudice
1987
Reeker
2005
Hostile Takeover
1989
The Vagrant
1992
Children of the Corn: Revelation
2001
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
2000
Red Sun Rising
1994
Chicago Cab
1998
The Butcher
2009
Mindstorm
2001
Deepwater
2005
Ice Soldiers
2013
The Last Chapter: The War Continues
2003
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
1987
Power Play
1978
High-Ballin'
1978
Soulkeeper
2001
The Glass Shield
1994
Visiting Hours
1982
Father Hood
1993
The Arrow
1997
Dracula: The Original Living Vampire
2022
88
2015
The Failures
2004
Storm Cell
2008
The Veteran
2006
Murder in Space
1985
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2015
Nowhere to Hide
1987
Bloodthirsty
2021
Race for the Bomb
1987
The Last Chapter
2002
The Surrogate
1984
Bloodsuckers
2005
Ignition
2002
Still/Born
2018
Terminal
1996
Knuckleball
2018
Red Scorpion 2
1995
The Destiny of Marty Fine
1996
Fortunes of War
1994
The Omega Code
1999
Stay
2013
Voyage of Terror
1998
California Winter
2015
Jett Jackson: The Movie
2001
Stan Lee's Mighty 7
2014
Mindfield
1989
Neon City
1991
Beneath the Blue
2010
Probable Cause
1994
Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York
2006
Guy X
2005
Dead Awake
2001
This Too Shall Pass
2025
Chaindance
1991
Question of Privilege
1999
Dead Man's Revenge
1994
Outrageous!
1977
Mutants
2008
Double Negative
1980
Liberty
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Danger Zone: The Making of Top Gun
2004
Best Revenge
1984
Portraits of a Killer
1996
The V Word
2006
Marked for Murder
1993
Killer Image
1992
The Killing Machine
1995
Bolt
1995
The Sins of Dorian Gray
1983
Fallen Angels
2002
Stone Cold Dead
1979
A Fighting Man
2014
American Desert
2021
The Space Between
2017
Extreme Honor
2001
Black Ice
1992
Ivory Tower
1998
Pumpkin Everything
2022
Confession
2023
Point of Impact
1993
X-Men: First Class
2011
American Nightmare
1983
The Red Phone: Manhunt
2001
Deadly Surveillance
1991
Payback
1991
Burden of Evil
2012
Night Trap
1993
Sweet Killing
1993
Dark Prophecy
2010
Captive
1998
Black Light
1999
Borderline Normal
2000
Transgression
2011
Ford: The Man and the Machine
1987
Death from Above: The Making of 'Starship Troopers'
2002
Johnny 2.0
1998
Murder by Night
1989
Forced to Kill
1994
Cross Country
1983
Destiny To Order
1990
The Fight Machine
2022
Maximum Velocity
2003
Dark Rising 2: Summer Strikes Back
2011
Tin Can
2022
A Twist of Faith
1999
Suzanne
1981
Cafe Romeo
1992
The Jazzman
2009
The Bannen Way
2010
The Terrorist Next Door
2008
One Way Out
1996
Summer's Children
1979
Eva
2010
Super Dicks
—
The Harrowing
2017
1st Bite
2006
The Family Man
1979
Surfacing
1981
Stegman Is Dead
2017
The Beacon
2009
Clown White
1981
The Sin Seer
2015
Lucky's Treasure
2017
Cause Of Death
2001
Skipping Stones
2021
The Red Phone: Checkmate
2004
The Arrangement
1999
The Jester from Transylvania
2024
Element
2016
Hellmington
2018
Kids of the Round Table
1995
Desecrated
2015
Alterscape
2018
Conduct Unbecoming
2011
One of Our Own
1998
Tokyo Cowboy
1994
Talking About the Sky
2025
Bloody Wasteland: The Making of Turbo Kid
2015
Hemingway vs. Callaghan
2003
Too Fast Too Young
1996
Children of the Fall
2016
Cold Night Into Dawn
1997
The Ottawa Valley
1974
Southern Cross
1999
Coming Out Alive
1980
Going to Kansas City
1998
Drop Dead Gorgeous
1991
The Family Circus
2023
Fairytales and Pornography
2002
Marrow
2026
All God's Children
2012
6:14
2013
The Cap
1985
I, Maureen
1978
Ashes
2026
The Greatest Show on Turf
2017
Off Your Rocker
1982
My Best Friend Depression
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The Shaft
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Mental Saboteur
2014
Deep Tissue
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Death Row: The Tournament
1998
Tokyo Trial
2017
Heavy Metal 2000: Voice Talent Featurette
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