Michael Ironside

ACTOR, PRODUCER, WRITER

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Michael Ironside has made a strong and indelible impression with his often incredibly intense and explosive portrayals of fearsome villains throughout the years. He was born as Frederick Reginald Ironside on February 12, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ironside was a successful arm wrestler in his teenage years. His initial ambition was to be a writer. At age fifteen, Michael wrote a play called "The Shelter" that won first prize in a Canada-wide university contest; He used the prize money to mount a production of this play. Ironside attended the Ontario College of Art, took acting lessons from Janine Manatis, and studied for three years at the Canadian National Film Board. Ironside worked in construction as a roofer prior to embarking on an acting career.Ironside first began acting in movies in the late 1970s. He received plenty of recognition with his frightening turn as deadly and powerful psychic Darryl Revok in David Cronenberg's Scanners (1981). He was likewise very chilling as vicious misogynistic psychopath Colt Hawker in the underrated Visiting Hours (1982). Other memorable film roles include weary Detective Roersch in the sadly forgotten thriller Cross Country (1983), the crazed Overdog in the immensely enjoyable Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983), the hard-nosed Jester in the blockbuster smash Top Gun (1986), ramrod Major Paul Hackett in Extreme Prejudice (1987), loner Vietnam veteran "Ben" in Nowhere to Hide (1987), the ferocious Lem Johnson in Watchers (1988), and lethal immortal General Katana in Highlander II: The Quickening (1991).Moreover, Ironside has appeared in two highly entertaining science fiction features for Paul Verhoeven: At his savage best as the evil Richter in Total Recall (1990) and typically excellent as the rugged Lieutenant Jean Rasczak in Starship Troopers (1997). Ironside showed a more tender and thoughtful side with his lovely and touching performance as a hardened convict who befriends a disabled man in the poignant indie drama gem Chaindance (1991); he also co-wrote the script and served as an executive producer for this beautiful sleeper. Michael was terrific as tough mercenary Ham Tyler on the epic miniseries V (1984), its follow up V: The Final Battle (1984), and subsequent short-lived spin-off series.Ironside also had a recurring role on the television series SeaQuest 2032 (1993). Among the television series he has done guest spots on are The A-Team (1983), Hill Street Blues (1981), The New Mike Hammer (1984), The Hitchhiker (1983), Tales from the Crypt (1989), Superman: The Animated Series (1996), Walker, Texas Ranger (1993), The Outer Limits (1995), ER (1994), Smallville (2001), ER (1994), Desperate Housewives (2004), Justice League (2001) and Masters of Horror (2005). More recently, Ironside garnered a slew of plaudits and a Gemini Award nomination for his outstanding portrayal of shrewd biker gang leader Bob Durelle in the acclaimed Canadian miniseries The Last Chapter II: The War Continues (2003).In addition to his substantial film and television work, Ironside has also lent his distinctive deep voice to TV commercials and video games. - IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyanders

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Michael Ironside’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Michael Ironside on average has worked on 3 movies per year from 1979 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Michael Ironside movies released per year from 2008 till 2021.

Top Genres

Michael Ironside works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Action Genre flixes. 26% of Michael Ironside movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Michael Ironside worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Michael Ironside has worked on is 5.4.

5.4 / 10

Michael Ironside's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

A new father discovers his child is not his own and sets out on a journey to find answers.

7.8/1090 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Sci-Fi
V: The Final Battle (1984)

A small group of human resistance fighters fight a desperate guerilla war against the genocidal extra-terrestrials who dominate Earth.

7.7/10272 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Sci-Fi
Total Recall (1990)

When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?

7.5/10113 min

Available in 13 platform(s).

Drama,History
Tokyo Trial (2016)

A historical drama that focuses on a decade-long investigation into events in the Pacific during and after WWII.

7.3/1045 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Sci-Fi
V (1984)

A year after Liberation Day, courtesy of the red-dust bacteria, the humanoid, lizard-like aliens develop a resistance to the micro-organism and try to regain control of the Earth--only now some humans are knowingly working with them.

7.3/1060 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

It is well known among law enforcement personnel that murders can be categorized as belonging to one of twenty-five levels of evil, from the naive opportunists starting out at Level 2 to ...

6.8/1056 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Comedy
Turbo Kid (2015)

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland in 1997, a comic book fan adopts the persona of his favourite hero to save his enthusiastic friend and fight a tyrannical overlord.

6.7/1093 min

Available in 18 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Drama
Extreme Prejudice (1987)

A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...

6.6/10105 min

Available in 5 platform(s).