Michael Ironside
Appearance
Michael Ironside (born February 12, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian character actor. He has also worked as a producer, film director, and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American works. He is best known for playing villains or "tough guy" heroes, though he has also portrayed sympathetic characters and he is considered one of Canada's most in-demand actors.
Brief Filmography
Actor
- Scanners (1981)
- Visiting Hours (1982)
- Spacehunter: The Adverntures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
- V (1984)
- Top Gun (1986)
- Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
- Total Recall (1990)
- Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
- Guncrazy (1992)
- Free Willy (1993)
- Major Payne (1995)
- The Arrow (1997)
- Starship Troopers (1997)
- The Arrangement (1999)
- The Omega Code (1999)
- The Last Chapter (2002)
- The Machinist (2004)
- Smallville (television series) (2004)
- Deepwater (2005)
Voice acting
- in animated series
- in video games
- Run Like Hell (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
Director
- The Arrangement (1999)
Screenwriter
- The Arrangement (1999)
- Chaindance (1990)