Michael Leonard Ontkean was born on 24 January 1946 and is a retired Canadian actor.
17 Facts About Michael Ontkean
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Michael Ontkean was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of Muriel, an actress, and Leonard Michael Ontkean, a boxer and actor.
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Michael Ontkean was a child actor in Vancouver, appearing on the Canadian television series Hudson's Bay.
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Michael Ontkean grew up playing hockey and he earned a hockey scholarship to the University of New Hampshire, a Division I program playing in the ECAC.
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Michael Ontkean led the team in goal scoring his junior year with 30 goals, and was second behind fellow Canadian Louis Frigon his senior year.
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Michael Ontkean began in Hollywood by guest starring in The Partridge Family in 1971, and he was a television guest player on such shows as Ironside and Longstreet, but his break was in the ABC series The Rookies, in which he played Officer Willie Gillis for the first two seasons.
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Michael Ontkean was replaced by actor, Bruce Fairbairn in The Rookies.
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Many years later, Michael Ontkean tried to prevent clips from the film from being included in The Celluloid Closet, a 1996 documentary about LGBT characters in film, but he was unsuccessful.
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Michael Ontkean filmed scenes for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me but, like many others from the original TV series, his scenes were deleted from the final film.
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Michael Ontkean subsequently appeared in many film and television productions including In Defense of a Married Man ; In a Child's Name with Valerie Bertinelli; Legacy of Lies ; Rapture and Vendetta II: The New Mafia ; Swann: A Mystery and The Stepford Husbands ; Summer of the Monkeys and A Chance of Snow ; Bear with Me, and Mrs Ashboro's Cat.
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Michael Ontkean had a recurring role on Fox's short-lived series North Shore in 2004, and appeared in the 2008 comedy TV show Sophie.
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Michael Ontkean had a supporting role in the 2011 film The Descendants, which was his last role to date before he decided to retire from acting.
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Michael Ontkean was approached to reprise his role as Sheriff Truman for the 2017 revival of Twin Peaks.
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At first, Michael Ontkean was reportedly excited about returning to the role, and enlisted Twin Peaks authority Brad Dukes to help him find the jacket which his character once wore on the show.
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However, in 2015, Michael Ontkean dropped out of the Twin Peaks revival, for reasons which were never made public.
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Michael Ontkean's role was replaced by Robert Forster, playing Sheriff Truman's brother Frank.
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Michael Ontkean was married to Jamie Smith-Jackson, an actress and design director and owner of Jamie Jackson Design.