1. Michael Ironside is best known for his roles in action and science fiction films, and had his breakthrough performance in the 1981 David Cronenberg film Scanners.
21 Facts About Michael Ironside
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Michael Ironside is a four-time Gemini Award, a Genie Award, and a Canadian Film Award nominee.
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Frederick Reginald Michael Ironside was born in Toronto on February 12,1950, the son of housewife Patricia June and street lighting technician Robert Walter Michael Ironside.
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Michael Ironside has four siblings and is of English, Irish, and Scottish descent.
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Michael Ironside attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto.
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Michael Ironside won the senior year writing award at Riverdale Collegiate Institute in 1968.
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Michael Ironside played the role of a serial killer, Colt Hawker, in the slasher film Visiting Hours and appeared in 1983 as Miler Crane in The A-Team episode "Taxicab Wars" as well as Overdog McNab in Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone.
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Michael Ironside is known for his roles in Top Gun as Naval Aviator Lieutenant Commander Rick "Jester" Heatherly, Extreme Prejudice as Major Paul Hackett, Watchers as a conscience-free mutant assassin, and Total Recall as Richter, the murderous henchman of Ronny Cox's villain Cohaagen.
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In 1994, Michael Ironside starred as Luck Hatcher in the western Dead Man's Revenge.
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In 1997, Michael Ironside was reunited with Total Recall director Paul Verhoeven for Starship Troopers.
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Michael Ironside appeared in The Perfect Storm and The Machinist.
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Michael Ironside starred as Resistance General Hugh Ashdown in Terminator Salvation, reunited with his co-star from The Machinist, Christian Bale.
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In 2003, Michael Ironside guest starred in season 3 episode 20 of Andromeda.
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Michael Ironside voiced comic book villain Darkseid in the DC Animated Universe, including Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.
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Michael Ironside signed a five-year deal to portray Captain Jonas Trager in the SpaceWorks Television science-fiction series, Ice Planet but the show was not produced.
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In 2010, Michael Ironside guest starred in season 4, episode 1 of Burn Notice.
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In 2011, Michael Ironside appeared in the film: X-Men: First Class, playing the Captain of the 7th Fleet.
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Michael Ironside appeared in Justified playing a supporting role as a Detroit hitman the following year.
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Michael Ironside voiced the role of Ultra Magnus in season 3 of the Transformers Prime Beast Hunters television series in 2013.
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Michael Ironside appeared in the TV series Walker, Texas Ranger as 'The Chairman'.
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Michael Ironside has survived cancer of the bowel, prostate, and thyroid.