Acting

Michael Ironside

Born 1950-02-12 · 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).

Credits

Newest first

Ashes
as Uncle
2026
Crash Land
as Monty
2026
Marrow
as Dr. Jonathan Myers
2026
This Too Shall Pass
as Officer Shultz
2025
1242: Gateway to the West
as Narrator / Mihaly
2025
Talking About the Sky
as Officer Alfred Henry(voz)
2025
The Jester from Transylvania
as Charles Pennington
2024
Late Night with the Devil
as The Narrator (voice)
2024
In Action with Michael Ironside
as Self
2023
Confession
2023
Barfuss, Homicide
as Self
2023
BlackBerry
as Charles Purdy
2023
Condor's Nest
as Agent Astakhov
2023
The Family Circus
as The Cop
2023
Pumpkin Everything
as Tom
2022
Tin Can
as Wayne
2022
The Fight Machine
as Lou
2022
The Dropout
as Don Lucas
2022
Dracula: The Original Living Vampire
as Dr. Jack Seward
2022
Hidden Assets
as Richard Melnick
2021
Skipping Stones
as Mr. Travers
2021
American Desert
as Uncle Bill
2021
Bloodthirsty
as Dr. Swan
2021
Nobody
as Eddie Williams
2021
The Movies That Made Us
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Harley Quinn
as Darkseid (voice)
2019
Hellmington
as Rupert Woodhouse
2018
The Convent
as The Magistrate
2018
Knuckleball
as Jacob
2018
Barry
as Andrei
2018
Atropa
as Captain Schreiber
2018
Alterscape
as Dr. Julian Loro
2018
Still/Born
2018
The Alienist
as J. P. Morgan
2018
The Detectives
as Detective Mark Anstey
2018
Stegman Is Dead
as Don
2017
Tokyo Trial
as Gen. Douglas MacArthur
2017
The Greatest Show on Turf
as Narrator
2017
The Harrowing
as Lt. Logan
2017
The Space Between
as Nick
2017
Lucky's Treasure
as Henry Landis
2017
Ransom
as Freddie Woods
2017
Tokyo Trial
as General Douglas MacArthur
2016
The Encounter
as Maximum Mike
2016
Patient Seven
as Dr. Daniel Marcus
2016
This Is Us
as Mr. Pearson
2016
Children of the Fall
as Sam
2016
Element
as Joe
2016
California Winter
as Sheriff Hillman
2015
The Sin Seer
as Alexander Rachet
2015
Bloody Wasteland: The Making of Turbo Kid
2015
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
as Self
2015
Turbo Kid
as Zeus
2015
88
as Sheriff Knowles
2015
Synchronicity
as Klaus Meisner
2015
Desecrated
as Tom McClain
2015
Extraterrestrial
as Travis
2014
The Flash
as Lewis Snart
2014
A Fighting Man
as Max Wynn
2014
Mental Saboteur
as Self
2014
Stan Lee's Mighty 7
as Xanar (voice)
2014
Ice Soldiers
as Col. Desmond Trump
2013
Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters - Predacons Rising
as Ultra Magnus (voice)
2013
Stay
as Frank
2013
6:14
as Warden
2013
All God's Children
as Peter
2012
Vegas
as Porter Gainsley
2012
Burden of Evil
as Senator Pitfield
2012
Conduct Unbecoming
as Col. Dodd
2011
Transgression
as Matthew
2011
Dark Rising 2: Summer Strikes Back
as Col. Haggard
2011
X-Men: First Class
as Captain
2011
Transformers: Prime
as Ultra Magnus (voice)
2010
Beneath the Blue
as Blaine
2010
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
as Margolin
2010
Dark Prophecy
as Tom Riggins
2010
Lake Placid 3
as Sheriff Tony Willinger
2010
Hawaii Five-0
as Robert Castor
2010
Eva
as Alfonse
2010
Justified
as Sarno
2010