
Michael Ironside
Biography
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).
TV Shows(30)

The Dropout
Don Lucas

Hidden Assets
Richard Melnick

The Movies That Made Us
Self (archive footage)

Harley Quinn
Darkseid (voice)

Atropa
Captain Schreiber

Barry
Andrei

The Detectives
Detective Mark Anstey

The Alienist
J. P. Morgan

Ransom
Freddie Woods

Tokyo Trial
General Douglas MacArthur

This Is Us
Mr. Pearson

The Encounter
Maximum Mike

The Flash
Lewis Snart

Vegas
Porter Gainsley

The Bannen Way
Chief Bannen

Hawaii Five-0
Robert Castor

Justified
Sarno

Transformers: Prime
Ultra Magnus (voice)

R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
Margolin

Castle
Victor Racine