Michael Ironside
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Michael Ironside | |
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2004 London Film and Comic Con |
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Born | Frederick Reginald Ironside February 12, 1950 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | Actor, Producer, Screenwriter, Director, Editor, Playwright |
Michael Ironside (born February 12, 1950) is a Canadian character actor. He has also worked as a voice actor, producer, film director, and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American works. He is best known for playing villains, "tough guy" heroes and amputees, though he has also portrayed sympathetic characters. Ironside is a method actor who keeps in character between takes.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Ironside was born Frederick Reginald Ironside[1] in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Patricia June (née Passmore), a homemaker, and Robert Walter Ironside, who worked in maintenance as a street lighting technician and laborer.[1][2] He attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and wrote a play at the age of fifteen, "The Shelter", winning the first prize in a university contest.[3] He also won the Senior writing award for Riverdale Collegiate Institute in 1967.
[edit] Career
One of Ironside's first roles was a memorable turn as evil telepath Darryl Revok in Scanners, an early film by David Cronenberg. His breakthrough role was in the television miniseries V: The Final Battle as Ham Tyler. He is also known for his roles in Top Gun (Naval Aviator Lieutenant Commander Rick 'Jester' Heatherly), Extreme Prejudice and Total Recall. After a brief stint in ER's inaugural season, he was tapped to replace Roy Scheider as captain of the high-tech submarine seaQuest in the third season of seaQuest DSV as Captain Oliver Hudson. However, NBC canceled the series after only thirteen episodes with Ironside as the star.
Ironside has also been recognized for his voice acting. He played the voice of iconic comic book villain Darkseid in Superman: The Animated Series and its spinoff, Justice League to great accolade. In one episode of The New Batman Adventures, he voiced Batman in a Dark Knight sequence. Another part he also happened to play in the DC Comics universe was Lois Lane's father, General Sam Lane in two episodes in Smallville
He has also worked in video games as the voice of Tom Clancy's character Sam Fisher in the Splinter Cell games along with the PSP game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials, and is cast as the Global Defense Initiative's Lieutenant General Jack Granger in Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. Ironside recently signed a 5 year deal to portray Captain Jonas Trager in the Spaceworks Television scifi series, Ice Planet.
Ironside was successful as an arm wrestler in his teenage years. It is not known if he still practices the sport. Curiously enough, he has "lost" his left arm in at least two of his films (The Machinist and Starship Troopers, in which he also loses his legs) and both arms in a fight with Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in the film Total Recall.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Actor
- Outrageous (1977)
- Scanners (1981)
- Visiting Hours (1982)
- Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
- V: The Final Battle (1984)
- V: The Series (1984-1985)
- Murder in Space (TV Series) (1985)
- Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986)
- Top Gun (1986)
- Extreme Prejudice (1987)
- Nowhere to Hide (1987)
- Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
- Watchers (1988)
- Chaindance (1990)
- Total Recall (1990)
- Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
- McBain (1991)
- Guncrazy (1992)
- Free Willy (1993)
- Tales from the Crypt: The TV Series. Season 5 : Episode 'Came the Dawn' (1993)
- The Next Karate Kid (1994)
- Major Payne (1995)
- seaQuest 2032 (1995)
- The Arrow (1997)
- Starship Troopers (1997)
- Ivory Tower (1998)
- Chicago Cab (aka Hellcab) (1998)
- The Arrangement (1999)
- The Omega Code (1999)
- The Perfect Storm (2000)
- Borderline Normal (2000)
- Heavy Metal 2000 (2000) (voice)
- Walker, Texas Ranger (2000) (As the Chairman)
- Jett Jackson: The Movie (2001)
- Mindstorm (2001)
- The Last Chapter (2002)
- The Machinist (2004)
- Smallville (TV series) (2004)
- Andromeda (TV series) (2004)
- Young Blades (2005)
- Desperate Housewives (2005)
- Reeker (2005)
- Vampire Wars: Battle for the Universe (2005)
- Deepwater (2006)
- Stargate SG-1 (2006)
- Masters of Horror episode The V Word
- Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (2007) ...as Lieutenant General Jack Granger
- Ice Planet (2007)
[edit] Voice acting
- in animated series
- Superman: The Animated Series ...as Darkseid
- The New Batman Adventures ...as "Dark Knight" Batman
- Justice League / Justice League Unlimited ...as Darkseid
- Heavy Metal 2000 ...as Tyler
- in video games
- RLH (2002) ...as Cmdr. Mason
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (2002) ...as Sam Fisher
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (2004) ...as Sam Fisher
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (2005) ...as Sam Fisher
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials (2006) ... as Sam Fisher
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent (2006) ...as Sam Fisher
- TimeShift (2006) ...as Doctor Krone
- Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (2007) ...as Gen. Jack Granger
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (2008) ...as Sam Fisher
[edit] Director
- The Arrangement (1999)
[edit] Screenwriter
- The Arrangement (1999)
- Chaindance (1990)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
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NAME | Ironside, Michael |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ironside, Frederick Reginald |
SHORT DESCRIPTION | Actor, Producer, Screenwriter, Director, Editor, Playwright |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1950-2-12 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto, Ontario |
DATE OF DEATH | |
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