Michael Ironside Filmography

The Veteran

Actors: Michael Ironside, Ally Sheedy, Bobby Hosea, Colin Glazer, Donald Burda

Synopsis: A Vietnam veteran-turned-holy man returns to Saigon, only to be confronted by a former war buddy who forces him to own up to his blood-soaked past in this drama from director Sidney J. Furie. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Vampire Wars: Battle for the Universe

Synopsis: The low-budget, direct-to-video sci-fi/horror fest Vampire Wars: Battle for the Universe opens in the year 2210. After draining the life from millions of human bodies, bloodsuckers not only worm their way across the face of the earth but sit poised on the edge of conquering the universe. To squash Read More

Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York

Actors: Costas Mandylor, Alexandra Paul, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: Michael Ironside, Costas Mandylor, and Alexandra Paul attempt to avert disaster when a volatile volcano threatens to turn New York City to ashes in director Robert Lee's made for television disaster film. A volcano has been discovered beneath the Big Apple, and it's about to blow. As the impending Read More

Masters of Horror: The V Word

Actors: Michael Ironside, Arjay Smith, Branden Nadon

Synopsis: Bones director Ernest R. Dickerson takes the helm for this episode of Showtime's Masters of Horror series concerning two morbidly curious teenagers who come face to face with the ultimate nightmare. Obsessed with the prospect of seeing a real dead body, two teenage boys break into a mortuary and Read More

Guy X

Actors: Jason Biggs, Jeremy Northam, Natascha McElhone, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: This loose update of John Griesemer's biting and satirical 2001 anti-war novel No One Thinks of Greenland features American Pie starrer Jason Biggs as Corporal Rudy Spruance, a young man enlisted in the U.S. military in the late 1970s, at the height of the Cold War between the States and the Read More

Reeker

Actors: Devon Gummersall, Derek Richardson, Tina Illman, Scott Whyte, Arielle Kebbel

Synopsis: Five students driving through the desert encounter the inescapable stench of death in director David Payne's retro-inspired slasher/monster/supernatural horror hybrid. The highway has been inexplicably closed, forcing five young travelers into a mysteriously abandoned travel oasis where they are Read More

Deepwater

Actors: Lucas Black, Peter Coyote, Mía Maestro, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: An orphaned drifter recently released from the hospital and seeking gainful employment finds that sometimes fate can play cruel tricks on the desperate in a tightly wound tale of adultery, deception, and murder starring Peter Coyote and Lucas Black. Nat Banyon (Black) is an orphan just looking to Read More

The Machinist

Actors: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, John Sharian, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: Brad Anderson directs the psychological thriller The Machinist, a production of Spain's Filmax company. Christian Bale plays Trevor Reznik, a factory lathe operator who has developed a serious case of insomnia. Lack of sleep has already started to wear down on his brain and his body. When he's Read More

Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda: Twilight of the Idols

Synopsis: Dylan (Kevin Sorbo) and his crew conduct a search for a missing space colony. Also joining the search is Constantine Stark (Michael Ironside), the "patriarch" of a small band of freedom fighters and the ancestor of a legendary guerilla leader. Dylan's confusion over the fact that he has never Read More

The Failures

Actors: Ashley Johnson, Chad Lindberg, Henry Czerny, Seth Adkins, Joseph D. Reitman

Synopsis: American filmmaker Tim Hunter (River's Edge) directs the dark comedy The Failures, shot in HD video with a script from first-time screenwriter Hal Haberman. Chad Lindberg plays William, an alcoholic who works as a parking lot attendant. He makes up comic book stories about antidepressant drugs Read More

Fallen Angels

Synopsis: Ian David Diaz' horror film Fallen Angels concerns a supposedly haunted girls' school. A horrific fire occurred at the school, and now, five years later, one of the survivors of the fire is going back to the school at the behest of a Hollywood agent who thinks this kind of press would help create Read More

Justice League: Twilight, Part 2

Actors: Michael Ironside, Corey Burton, Ron Perlman, Mitchell Ryan, Tara Strong

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Justice League's second-season opener, the Justice League has been imprisoned on a giant artificial moon, built in the shape of Superman's old Krypton foe Brainiac. It turns out that the Leaguers are mere pawns in a pact between the sinister Brainiac and the mercurial Read More

Maximum Velocity

Actors: Wendy Carter, Gregor Toerzs, Jennifer Jostyn, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: Phillip Roth's action/disaster film Maximum Velocity concerns the efforts of a group of military men and scientists to thwart an oncoming storm that would devastate the planet. He group must utilize a still unproven new weapon to dissipate the storm before all is lost. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Read More

Soulkeeper

Actors: Rod Rowland, Kevin Patrick Walls, Karen Black, Robert Davi, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: A pair of minor league crooks discover they're playing way out of their league when they have to face off against a legion of supernatural beasts in this tongue-in-cheek horror opus. Two low-level thieves think they've discovered a big score when they manage to steal a rare and ancient artifact Read More

Dead Awake

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Macha Grenon, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: In this noir-flavored thriller, Desmond Craine (Stephen Baldwin) is cursed with insomnia; on nights when he can't sleep, he takes long walks through the city streets, hoping to clear his mind and allow himself to relax. However, quite the opposite occurs one evening when he unwittingly becomes a Read More

Extreme Honor

Synopsis: Navy SEAL Brascoe (Dan Andersen), is forced out of the service in disgrace after being framed by his partner Cody (Olivier Gruner) regarding a conflict gone wrong. Now a civilian without direction, Brascoe learns that his bad luck hasn't run out yet: His young son is dying from cancer and Brascoe Read More

Children of the Corn: Revelation

Actors: Claudette Mink, Kyle Cassie, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: The seventh in the series of films loosely based on a short story that appeared originally in Stephen King's Night Shift, Children of the Corn: Revelation continues the saga of a Nebraska town where the young citizens all fear a mysterious higher power that emerges from the ever-present cornrows. Read More

The Shaft

Actors: James Marshall, Naomi Watts, Eric Thal, Michael Ironside, Edward Herrmann, Dan Hedaya, Ron Perlman

Synopsis: At the Millennium Building in NYC, the elevators have a problem... they just can't stop killing people! Pregnant women, skater dudes -- they're all on the menu for these possessed motorized beasts. As elevator repairman Mark Newman (James Marshal) delves deeper into the mystery, everyone from his Read More

Crime + Punishment in Suburbia

Actors: Monica Keena, Vincent Kartheiser, Ellen Barkin, Jeffrey Wright, James DeBello

Synopsis: Recalling both The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and American Beauty (1999), this teen drama recounts the trials and tribulations of one very dysfunctional family. Roseanne Skolnik (Monica Keena) is a popular high school student who is dating Jimmy (James DeBello), the football captain. She Read More

The Perfect Storm

Actors: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, John Hawkes

Synopsis: In October 1991, a dying tropical hurricane from Bermuda collided with a cold front from the Great Lakes, resulting in a "perfect storm" of previously unknown destructive impact that resulted in 100-foot waves; tragically, the crew of a fishing boat was lost in the midst of the fearsome storm. Read More

Cause of Death

Actors: Patrick Bergin, Joan Severance, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: In this steamy thriller, Taylor Lewis (Patrick Bergin) is a district attorney who is assigned to prosecute Angela Carter (Joan Severance) when she's accused of murdering her husband -- who just so happens to be the mayor's cousin. However, the longer Lewis investigates the case, the more he begins Read More

Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2

Actors: Alan Fawcett, Rick Jones, Sonja Ball, Pier Kohl, Brady Moffatt, Michael Ironside, Julie Strain, Billy Idol, Arthur Holden

Synopsis: This futuristic animated adventure is based on the graphic novel The Melting Pot, created by noted comic artists Kevin Eastman, Simon Brisley, and Eric Talbot and published by the creators of the well-known graphics magazine Heavy Metal. In a distant universe, the acronym F.A.K.K. (Federation Read More

Nuremberg

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Brian Cox, Michael Ironside, Matt Craven

Synopsis: This TNT miniseries stars Alec Baldwin as Robert Jackson, the Supreme Court justice who served as the head prosecutor for the war crimes tribunal that took place in Nuremberg after the horrors of WWII and the Holocaust. The film follows Jackson from his preparations for the trial to the outcome of Read More

Borderline Normal

Actors: Nicholas Treeshin, Corbin Bernsen, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: A boy's world is turned upside down when his parents split up in this emotional drama. When Vicky and Benjamin Walling (Stephanie Zimbalist and Corbin Bernsen) file for divorce, their son Jeremy (Robin Dunne) finds himself caught in the middle of an emotional tug of war. Benjamin has decided to Read More

The Omega Code

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Michael York, Catherine Oxenberg, Michael Ironside, Jan Triska

Synopsis: In this spiritual thriller, an ancient prophecy is about to be fulfilled as a secret code brings the world to the edge of Apocalypse. Gillen Lane (Casper Van Dien) is a expert on theology and mythology who has gained international fame as a motivational speaker. Lane is approached by Stone Read More

Desert Blue

Actors: Brendan Sexton III, Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci, John Heard, Lucinda Jenney, Casey Affleck

Synopsis: Morgan J. Freeman directed this comedy-drama that takes place in the desert town of Baxter Beach, California, where the locals, lookers, visitors and slackers include dreamer Blue (Brendan Sexton III), pipe-bomb babe Ely (Christina Ricci), all-terrain-vehicle champ Pete (Casey Affleck), nerdy Read More

Southern Cross

Actors: Michael Ironside, Esai Morales

Synopsis: A young man becomes the reluctant heir of the family business, only to discover how dangerous and corrupt it can be in this drama. Philip is an aspiring musician whose father runs a Chilean mining concern. When his dad dies, Philip returns to Chile from the United States and soon finds himself Read More

Blood Money

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Ironside, Lori Petty, Currie Graham

Synopsis: In this tense crime thriller, Candy (Lori Petty) is an exotic dancer who witnesses a murderous drug deal by a high-level Mafia kingpin. The police have been looking to put the gangster behind bars for years, and Candy's testimony represents the best chance they have to finally nail him. Police Read More

Question of Privilege

Actors: Jessica Steen, Wendy Crewson, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: A small town in a frenzy for justice pins the blame for a horrible crime on the wrong people in this drama. After a teenage girl is found dead, the obvious suspects appear to be a quartet of teenage boys who met up with the girl the night before; they bad been out carousing, and were known to be Read More

Beyond Redemption

Synopsis: The city's latest serial killer has got it in for priests, nuns, and other pious people, and the method of dispatching them is nasty: crucifixion. Detective Henry Smith, played by Andrew McCarthy, investigates the repulsively grisly crimes but his own moral crisis at home -- he and his wife (Jayne Read More

Hellcab

Actors: Paul Dillon, Michael Ironside, Laurie Metcalf, John C. Reilly, Gillian Anderson

Synopsis: This episodic adaptation of Will Kern's seriocomic play follows a Chicago cabbie (Paul Dillon) as he picks up various passengers on the city's South Side on Christmas Eve. Most are observed and let off in brief vignettes: religious nuts, a belligerent Indian man, a defensive lawyer, a druggie on a Read More

Captive

Actors: Michael Ironside, Erika Eleniak, Catherine Colvey

Going To Kansas City

Actors: Mikko Nousiainen, Melissa Galianos, Michael Ironside, Susan Almgren, Mark Camacho

Synopsis: Dreaming of becoming a famous blues musician, a young Finn leaves Helsinki and heads for Kansas City only to learn that his host family resides in nearby Canaan, a rural town where xenophobic locals treat him with contempt and suspicion. At first the upbeat Mikko Vihavainen (Mikko Nousianen) pays Read More

Voyage of Terror

Actors: Lindsay Wagner, Brian Dennehy, Martin Sheen, Michael Ironside, William B. Davis

Synopsis: A virulent virus erupts aboard a cruise ship. The government wants to blow it up, but a scientist is determined to find a cure or at least a way to contain the deadly disease. He must hurry, for time is short and the government is getting impatient. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

ER: Think Warm Thoughts

Synopsis: The second elderly rape victim in as many weeks arrives at the ER. Elsewhere, things take a personal turn when Anspaugh's (John Aylward) young son Scott (Trevor Morgan), a recovering cancer patient, shows up at County General with stomach pains. Former ER head man Dr. Swift (Michael Ironside) pays Read More

Black Light

Actors: Michael Ironside, Tahnee Welch, Currie Graham

Synopsis: Currie Graham, Michael Ironside and Tahnee Welch star in this suspense thriller about a blind woman with psychic powers who is recruited by the police to help them track down a killer at large. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Starship Troopers

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: Director Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls, Total Recall) reunited many from his 1987 Robocop team for this $100-million science fiction adventure, adapted from Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 novel, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (October-November, 1959). After Read More

Johnny 2.0

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Michael Ironside, Tahnee Welch

Synopsis: Set in a grim future in which an almost uninhabitable polluted Earth is run by monstrous corporations, this thriller from the Sci-Fi Channel centers on socially conscious scientist Johnny Dalton, who awakens after a 15-year coma to discover that he is a clone who created himself and then took off Read More

Ivory Tower

Actors: Michael Ironside, Patrick Van Horn, Kari Wuhrer

Synopsis: A corporate marketing director thinks he's getting the project he's been looking for when he's assigned to help introduce an exciting new computer product. However, that's before he meets his new boss, who ends up putting the project, the company and even himself in serious jeopardy. ~ Mark Read More

One Way Out

Synopsis: In this crime drama, two recently released prisoners, Frank and Bobby, get into more trouble when Bobby begins plotting one last bank heist and Frank starts plotting revenge against Walt, the thug who harmed his family. Deciding to team up, Frank and Bobby conspire to rob Walt's garage. Read More

The Destiny of Marty Fine

Synopsis: A has-been fighter finds himself extorted into becoming a hitman to save himself in this crime drama. The mess began while the opportunistic Marty was trying to convince a mobster to participate in his latest quick money scam. The would-be investor is suddenly shot and killed. Marty sees it all Read More

Cold Night into Dawn

Synopsis: From Leo Films comes Bomb Squad, an action thriller starring Brat Packer Anthony Michael Hall (The Breakfast Club) and Michael Ironside (Total Recall) as two members of a government agency looking to thwart a catastrophic terrorist attack. When word breaks that there's a homicidal madman planning Read More

Terminal

Actors: Doug Savant

Synopsis: One of the acknowledged masters of the medical thriller, Robin Cook, co-scripted Terminal. Sean O'Grady (Doug Savant) is an intern who begins to wonder about a supposed miracle cancer cure his hospital is dispensing after a young girl dies from the disease. He must overcome a hostile bureaucracy Read More

ER: Everything Old is New Again

Synopsis: The wedding of Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) and John Taglieri (Rick Rossovich) is complicated by the fact that bridesmaid Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) is called away to care for the baby of her missing sister, Chloe (Kathleen Wilhoite). This minor crisis, however, is supplanted by a Read More

ER: Love Among the Ruins

Synopsis: A visitor to the ER (Catherine Lloyd Burns) must make a crucial decision after her boyfriend commits suicide, while novice nun Sister Elizabeth (Amy Ryan) likewise finds herself at an emotional crossroads. Elsewhere, the ER staff (and the viewers) discovers that Carter (Noah Wyle) is from an Read More

Major Payne

Actors: Damon Wayans, Karyn Parsons, William Hickey, Michael Ironside, Albert Hall

Synopsis: Hawk-like Marine Corps officer Benson Payne (Damon Wayans) attempts to whip into shape the usual assortment of misfit JROTC kids in this minor remake of The Private War of Major Benson. Of course, both the major and his pint-sized recruits have something to teach one another. Payne teaches them Read More

Kids of the Round Table

Actors: Johnny Morina, Michael Ironside, Rene Simard, Malcolm McDowell, Roc Lafortune

Synopsis: In this comic Canadian family drama, the tale of King Arthur is updated and enacted by a group of neighborhood kids. The tale begins as the children are playing in their backyards. Eleven-year old Alex then begins telling them all about King Arthur. He is interrupted by the local bully Scar and Read More

ER: House of Cards

Synopsis: New ER boss Dr. Swift (Michael Ironside) requests (read: "demands") that Greene discuss the OR death of Jodi O'Brien death before a hospital conference. Deb's (Ming-Na) rush to pile up more procedures than Carter (Noah Wyle) results in serious error. Ross (George Clooney) grows ever closer to Read More

ER: Full Moon, Saturday Night

Synopsis: Michael Ironside makes his first appearance as new ER chief Dr. William Swift, who immediately sets the staff on its ear with his bizarre management style and intense perfectionism. Meanwhile, the rivalry between med student Carter (Noah Wyle) and Deb (Ming-Na) reaches a new height of absurdity. Read More

ER: Men Plan, God Laughs

Synopsis: In wake of the ongoing crisis involving his ailing mother, the customarily brusque and arrogant Benton (Eriq La Salle) astonishes everyone with his courtesy, consideration, and compassion. Meanwhile, Ross (George Clooney) is ordered to see a psychiatrist after punching a patient, and also agrees Read More

Rebel Run

Actors: Richard Grieco, Michael Ironside, Sean Young

Synopsis: 21 Jump Street heartthrob Richard Grieco stars in the 1994 motorcycle movie Bolt, released on DVD as Rebel Run. A tough New Jersey biker named Bolt (Grieco) travels across the country heading west. He encounters old gang rival Billy Niles (Michael Ironside). Bolt fights to protect his Indian Read More

Probable Cause

Actors: Michael Ironside, Kate Vernon

Synopsis: A frazzled detective tries to track down a serial cop-killer in this made-for-television crime drama. Michael Ironside stars as Detective Gary Yanuck, an investigator with a handful of personal problems who is assigned to find out who is murdering police officers. Despite being charged with sexual Read More

Red Sun Rising

Actors: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Terry Farrell, Mako, Soon-Teck Oh, James Lew

Synopsis: In this police drama, a Japanese cop scours Los Angeles in hopes of finding the crooks who killed his partner. His investigation lands him in the middle of a major illegal arms dealership. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tokyo Cowboy

Actors: Hiromoto Ida, Christianne Hirt, Janne Mortil, Anna Ferguson, Alec Willows

Synopsis: Hilarity ensues in this Canadian comedy when a young Japanese man goes deep into the Canadian west in search of adventure, and finds instead a cultural clash. No Ogawa, a fast-food worker in Tokyo dreams of seeing real cowboys. His pen-pal Kate lives in rural western Canada. She is an artist and a Read More

The Next Karate Kid

Actors: Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Hilary Swank, Michael Ironside, Constance Towers, Chris Conrad

Synopsis: Karate Kid, Part 4 is better known by its release title, The Next Karate Kid. The sole holdover from the first three KK flicks is Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, once more cast as janitor/martial arts maven Miyagi Yakuga. This time, his pupil is orphaned 17-year-old Hilary Swank, the granddaughter Read More

The Killing Man

Actors: Jeff Wincott, Michael Ironside, Terri Hawkes

Synopsis: Jeff Wincott plays Harlin Garret, once an enforcer for a criminal network preying on the city's citizens. After he's doubled crossed, a government agency with an agenda of their own, no less sinister than that of the crooks, creates a doppelgänger of Harlin to do its dirty work. Garret soon finds Read More

Red Scorpion 2

Actors: Matt McColm, John Savage, Jennifer Rubin, Michael Ironside, Michael Covert

Synopsis: In this Canadian thriller, uneducated, disaffected white youths known as skinheads are attacking racial minorities. A government agent (Michael Ironside) investigating the incidents traces them to a wealthy, extreme right-wing, neo-Nazi businessman who is secretly bankrolling the skinheads, using Read More

The Glass Shield

Actors: Michael Boatman, Lori Petty, Ice Cube, Michael Ironside, Richard Anderson

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an honest lawman has to decide where his loyalties lie in a corrupt system. All his life, J.J. (Michael Boatman) has dreamed of being a cop, and after graduating from the Police Academy, he gets his wish, becoming the first African-American policeman based out of Los Angeles' Read More

Sweet Killing

Actors: Anthony Higgins, Leslie Hope, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Ironside, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Based on Agnes Hall's novel Qualthrough, this suspenseful crime drama chronicles the comeuppance of a murderous banker. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Free Willy

Actors: Jason James Richter, Jayne Atkinson, Lori Petty, August Schellenberg, Michael Madsen, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: The touching story of a boy and his killer whale made this family drama a surprise box office hit. Jesse (Jason James Richter) is a kid without parents who has bounced from one foster home to another and is living on the streets. One night, he's caught spraying graffiti with his friend Perry (Michael Bacall Read More

Father Hood

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Halle Berry, Sabrina Lloyd, Brian Bonsall, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: Deadbeat dads be damned. Patrick Swayze plays a con man who tries to live up to the ideals of "family values" by kidnapping his son and daughter from the evil clutches of a corrupt orphanage and taking them on a cross-country trip in his vintage convertible. To complicate matters, his daughter has Read More

Dead Man's Revenge