Michael Ironside
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Michael Ironside (born Fred Ironside 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. Ironside is a method actor who keeps in character between takes.
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 and Total Recall. He was also 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 cancelled the series after only thirteen episodes with Ironside as the star.
He has recently become a star in the realm of video games, as he has voiced Tom Clancy's character of 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 General Jack Granger in the upcoming Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.
Ironside has recently signed a 5 year deal to portray Captain Jonas Trager in the Spaceworks Television scifi series, Ice Planet.
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[edit] Trivia
An interesting piece of Ironside trivia is Ironside's success as an arm wrestler in his teenage years. It is not known if he still practises the sport.
[edit] Partial filmography
[edit] Actor
- Scanners (1981)
- Visiting Hours (1982)
- Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
- V:The Final Battle (1984)
- V (The Series) (1984)
- Top Gun (1986)
- Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
- Total Recall (1990)
- Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
- Guncrazy (1992)
- Free Willy (1993)
- The Next Karate Kid (1994)
- Major Payne (1995)
- seaQuest 2032 (1995)
- The Arrow (1997)
- Starship Troopers (1997)
- Chicago Cab, aka Hellcab (1998)
- The Arrangement (1999)
- The Omega Code (1999)
- The Perfect Storm (2000)
- Borderline Normal (2000)
- Heavy Metal 2000 (2000) (voice)
- Jett Jackson: The Movie (2001)
- The Last Chapter (2002)
- The Machinist (2004)
- Smallville (TV series) (2004)
- Andromeda (TV series) (2004)
- Young Blades (2005)
- Desperate Housewives (2005)
- Deepwater (2006)
- Stargate SG-1 (2006)
[edit] Voice acting
- in animated series
- Superman: The Animated Series ...as Darkseid
- The New Batman Adventures ...as '80's Batman
- 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 & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (2007) ...as Global Defense Initiative General Jack Granger
[edit] Director
- The Arrangement (1999)
[edit] Screenwriter
- The Arrangement (1999)
- Chaindance (1990)
[edit] External links
- Michael Ironside at the Internet Movie Database
- Michael Ironside Interview at www.sci-fi-online.com
- MichaelIronsideFans.Net
Categories: 1950 births | Living people | ER actors | Canadian actors | Canadian character actors | People from Toronto | Ontario actors | Canadian voice actors | Canadian film actors | Canadian television actors | Stargate actors | Tales from the Crypt actors | V actors | The A-Team actors | Highlander actors | Andromeda actors
