Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside (born February 12, 1950 in Toronto , Ontario ; actually Fred Ironside ) is a Canadian actor .
biography
Ironside grew up in an extended family. After initially working as a cleaner, he studied at the Ontario College of Art and soon got his first role as a leading actor in the film Look back in Anger . At the beginning of his acting career, he ran a roofing company with his brother. In the course of his career he played in more than 250 film and television productions, including many series and numerous B-movies .
After moving to Los Angeles in 1982, Ironside played predominantly sinister and morally ambivalent roles, often including police officers and soldiers.
In 1982 he was nominated for the Genie Award for Scanners - Your Thoughts Can Kill as Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated at the Gemini Awards in 1989 for One Boy, One Wolf, One Summer , in 2002 for the miniseries The Last Chapter and in 2003 for the follow-up series The Last Chapter II: The War Continues .
His best-known roles are likely to be as judge in Total Recall (1990) as film contender for Arnold Schwarzenegger and lover of film partner Sharon Stone and as tough platoon leader Lt. Be Jean Rasczak in Starship Troopers (1997). Since the beginning of his career, Ironside has appeared in several supporting roles (e.g. in Top Gun alongside Tom Cruise ) in films and television series (e.g. V - The extraterrestrial visitors are coming ).
He also lent Sam Fisher , the hero of the computer game series Splinter Cell , up to the fifth part of the series, in the original his voice. In 2007 he can be seen in the PC game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars as GDI General Jack Granger. There is also a reference to him in the expansion " Kane's Revenge ". There an “Experimental Ironside Transporter” appears in one of the missions.
Ironside has a daughter from her first marriage who was born in 1974. He has been married to his second wife since 1986. Their daughter was born in 1998.
Filmography (selection)
- 1977: Freaked Out (Outrageous!)
- 1978: The Last Campaign
- 1979: Trucker (High-Ballin ')
- 1980: Stone Cold Dead
- 1980: Scanners - Your Thoughts Can Kill (Scanners)
- 1981: Visiting Hours (The Fright, Get Well Soon)
- 1982: Best Revenge
- 1983: The A-Team (The A-Team)
- 1983: Space Hunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
- 1984: Cross Country
- 1984: American Nightmare
- 1984–1985: V - The extraterrestrial visitors are coming ( V: The Final Battle , TV series, 12 episodes)
- 1985: The Falcon and the Snowman (The Falcon and the Snowman)
- 1985: Murder In Space
- 1986: The Hitchhiker ( The Hitchhiker , TV series, episode 3x08)
- 1986: Jo Jo Dancer - Your Life Is Calling (Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling)
- 1986: Top Gun
- 1987: Nowhere To Hide (Fatal Chase)
- 1987: Extinguished (Extreme Prejudice)
- 1987: Mary Lou (Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II)
- 1988: Watchers
- 1989: Murder By Night
- 1989: Hostile Takeover (The Office Party)
- 1990: Total Recall (Total Recall)
- 1990: Payback
- 1990, 1995: Tales from the Crypt ( Tales from the Crypt , television series, 2 episodes)
- 1991: The Price of Beauty (Drop Dead Gorgeous)
- 1991: McBain
- 1991: Deadly Surveillance
- 1991: Raw Deal (Chaindance)
- 1991: Highlander II - The Quickening
- 1992: The Vagrant
- 1993: Point of Impact (Spanish Rose)
- 1993: Free Willy - Call of Freedom (Free Willy)
- 1993: The Kidnapper (Father Hood)
- 1994: Dead Man's Revenge
- 1994: Karate Kid IV - The Next Generation (The Next Karate Kid)
- 1994: The Killing Machine (The Killing Man)
- 1995: At war with Major Payne (Major Payne)
- 1995: Kids of the Round Table
- 1995–1996: seaQuest DSV (TV series, 13 episodes)
- 1995, 1998, 2002: Emergency Room - Die Notaufnahme ( ER , TV series, 7 episodes)
- 1996: Portraits of a Killer
- 1997: The Arrow
- 1997: FX: The Series
- 1997: Starship Troopers
- 1997: Johnny 2.0 - The Replicant Factory (Johnny 2.0)
- 1997: Denver PD - Die Kriegsteufel (One of Our Own)
- 1998: Black Light
- 1998: Captive - A Cold Blood Plan (Captive)
- 1998: Denver PD - Killer Woman (The Arrangement)
- 1998: Desert Blue
- 1998: The Orion Star's Voyage of Terror
- 1998: Chicago Cab
- 1999: A Twist Of Faith
- 1999, 2001: Outer Limits - The Unknown Dimension ( The Outer Limits , TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2000: Uprooted - A Family on the Edge (Borderline Normal)
- 2000: The Storm (The Perfect Storm)
- 2000: Heavy Metal: FAKK² ( Heavy Metal 2000 , voice)
- 2000: Nuremberg - In the Name of Humanity (Nuremberg)
- 2000: Walker, Texas Ranger (TV series)
- 2001: Down
- 2001: Ignition (Ignition)
- 2001: Jett Jackson: The Movie
- 2001: Children of the Corn: Revelation
- 2004: The Machinist (El Maquinista)
- 2003-2004: Andromeda (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2004, 2010: Smallville (TV series, 3 episodes)
- 2005: Reeker
- 2005: Bloodsuckers
- 2005–2006: Desperate Housewives (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2006: Stargate - Kommando SG-1 ( Stargate SG-1 , TV series, episode 9x19)
- 2006: Volcanic eruption in New York (Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York)
- 2007: Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
- 2008: Alphabet Killer (The Alphabet Killer)
- 2008: Tornado - No One Will Escape It (Storm Cell)
- 2008: Criminal Minds (TV series, episode 3x16)
- 2008: under control (surveillance)
- 2009: Hardwired
- 2009: Terminator: The Redemption (Terminator Salvation)
- 2009: The Butcher - The New Scarface
- 2009: Level 26 - Dark Soul ( Dark Origins , short film)
- 2010: Alyssa and her dolphin (Beneath the Blue)
- 2010: Burn Notice (TV series, episode 4x01)
- 2010: Castle (TV series, episode 2x21)
- 2010: Lake Placid 3 (TV movie)
- 2011: X-Men: First Decision (X-Men: First Class)
- 2012: Community (TV series, episode 3x17)
- 2013: Vegas (TV series, 4 episodes)
- 2013: Ice Soldiers
- 2014: Extraterrestrial: You will not come in peace (Extraterrestrial)
- 2015: Turbo Kid
- 2015: Synchronicity
- 2016: The Tokyo Trials ( Tokyo Trial , mini-series, all 4 episodes)
- 2018: The Encirclement ( The Alienist , TV series, four to follow)
- 2019: Hawaii Five-0 (TV series, episode 9x17)
Web links
- Michael Ironside in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Michael Ironside biography at prisma-online
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ironside, Michael |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ironside, Fred (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1950 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto , Ontario , Canada |