Michael Ironside
Acting
Born February 12, 1950 ยท Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Frederick Reginald Ironside (born February 12, 1950), known professionally as Michael Ironside, is a Canadian actor. He has worked as a voice actor, producer, film director, and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American productions. He gained early widespread recognition for his terrifying portrayal of the deadly psychic Darryl Revok in David Cronenberg's Scanners (1981) and was equally chilling as the misogynistic psychopath Colt Hawker in Visiting Hours (1982). Ironside followed that up by playing Jester in Top Gun (1986). Recently, Ironside is known for his roles as Eddie Williams in Nobody (2021) and Charles Purdy in BlackBerry (2023).
Directed (1)
Acting (190)
This Too Shall Pass
2025
1242: Gateway to the West
2025
Talking About the Sky
2025
The Jester from Transylvania
2024
Late Night with the Devil
2024
Confession
2023
BlackBerry
2023
Condor's Nest
2023
The Family Circus
2023
Pumpkin Everything
2022
Tin Can
2022
The Fight Machine
2022
Dracula: The Original Living Vampire
2022
Skipping Stones
2021
American Desert
2021
Bloodthirsty
2021
Nobody
2021
Hellmington
2018
The Convent
2018
Knuckleball
2018
Alterscape
2018
Still/Born
2018
Stegman Is Dead
2017
The Greatest Show on Turf
2017
The Harrowing
2017
The Space Between
2017
Lucky's Treasure
2017
Patient Seven
2016
Children of the Fall
2016
Element
2016
California Winter
2015
The Sin Seer
2015
Bloody Wasteland: The Making of Turbo Kid
2015
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2015
Turbo Kid
2015
88
2015
Synchronicity
2015
Desecrated
2015
Extraterrestrial
2014
A Fighting Man
2014
Mental Saboteur
2014
Stan Lee's Mighty 7
2014
Ice Soldiers
2013
Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters - Predacons Rising
2013
Stay
2013
6:14
2013
All God's Children
2012
Burden of Evil
2012
Conduct Unbecoming
2011
Transgression
2011
Dark Rising 2: Summer Strikes Back
2011
X-Men: First Class
2011
Beneath the Blue
2010
Dark Prophecy
2010
Lake Placid 3
2010
Eva
2010
The Bannen Way
2010
Hardwired
2009
The Beacon
2009
The Jazzman
2009
The Butcher
2009
Terminator Salvation
2009
The Alphabet Killer
2008
Mutants
2008
The Terrorist Next Door
2008
Storm Cell
2008
Surveillance
2008
1st Bite
2006
The V Word
2006
Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York
2006
The Veteran
2006
Bloodsuckers
2005
Deepwater
2005
Guy X
2005
Reeker
2005
The Failures
2004
The Machinist
2004
Danger Zone: The Making of Top Gun
2004
The Red Phone: Checkmate
2004
Maximum Velocity
2003
Hemingway vs. Callaghan
2003
Fairytales and Pornography
2002
Fallen Angels
2002
Death from Above: The Making of 'Starship Troopers'
2002
Ignition
2002
The Red Phone: Manhunt
2001
Dead Awake
2001
Soulkeeper
2001
Children of the Corn: Revelation
2001
Down
2001
Extreme Honor
2001
Jett Jackson: The Movie
2001
Mindstorm
2001
Cause Of Death
2001
Borderline Normal
2000
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
2000
The Perfect Storm
2000
Heavy Metal 2000
2000
The Omega Code
1999
Southern Cross
1999
A Twist of Faith
1999
Desert Blue
1999
Black Light
1999
Question of Privilege
1999
The Arrangement
1999
Chicago Cab
1998
Johnny 2.0
1998
One of Our Own
1998
Going to Kansas City
1998
Death Row: The Tournament
1998
Voyage of Terror
1998
Captive
1998
Ivory Tower
1998
Starship Troopers
1997
Cold Night Into Dawn
1997
The Arrow
1997
One Way Out
1996
Portraits of a Killer
1996
Too Fast Too Young
1996
The Destiny of Marty Fine
1996
Terminal
1996
Kids of the Round Table
1995
Bolt
1995
Major Payne
1995
Red Scorpion 2
1995
The Killing Machine
1995
Fortunes of War
1994
Probable Cause
1994
The Glass Shield
1994
Red Sun Rising
1994
Tokyo Cowboy
1994
The Next Karate Kid
1994
Forced to Kill
1994
Dead Man's Revenge
1994
Save Me
1994
Point of Impact
1993
Sweet Killing
1993
Father Hood
1993
Free Willy
1993
Night Trap
1993
Marked for Murder
1993
Black Ice
1992
Guncrazy
1992
Cafe Romeo
1992
The Vagrant
1992
Killer Image
1992
Neon City
1991
Drop Dead Gorgeous
1991
McBain
1991
Deadly Surveillance
1991
Payback
1991
Chaindance
1991
Highlander II: The Quickening
1991
Total Recall
1990
Destiny To Order
1990
Mindfield
1989
Hostile Takeover
1989
Murder by Night
1989
Watchers
1988
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
1987
Nowhere to Hide
1987
Ford: The Man and the Machine
1987
Extreme Prejudice
1987
Top Gun
1986
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
1986
Murder in Space
1985
The Cap
1985
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
Best Revenge
1984
The Surrogate
1984
Cross Country
1983
The Sins of Dorian Gray
1983
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
1983
American Nightmare
1983
Off Your Rocker
1982
Visiting Hours
1982
Clown White
1981
Suzanne
1981
Surfacing
1981
Scanners
1981
Coming Out Alive
1980
Double Negative
1980
The Family Man
1979
Stone Cold Dead
1979
Summer's Children
1979
Power Play
1978
I, Maureen
1978
High-Ballin'
1978
Outrageous!
1977
The Ottawa Valley
1974