Michael Ironside - Definition and Overview

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)
• V (1984)
• Top Gun (1986)
• (1987)
• Total Recall (1990)
• (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)
• Deepwater (2004)
• Smallville (television series) (2004)

Voice acting

• in animated series
  • Superman: The Animated Series ...as Darkseid
• 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)

External links

• Michael Ironside (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000461/) at the Internet Movie Database
• Michael Ironside Fan Site (http://www.siberianhusky.com/ironside/)
• Totally Ironside (http://www.michaelironside.com/)