Michael Ontkean

Michael Ontkean

Birthday: 1946-01-24

Place of birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Also known as: Michael Leonard Ontkean

imdb_id: nm0648920

Biography:

Michael Leonard Ontkean (born January 24, 1946) is a Canadian retired actor. Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Ontkean relocated to the United States to attend the University of New Hampshire on a hockey scholarship before pursuing a career in acting in the early 1970s. He initially came to prominence portraying Officer Willie Gillis on the crime drama series The Rookies from 1972 to 1974, followed by lead roles in the hockey sports comedy film Slap Shot (1977) and the romantic comedy Willie & Phil (1980). In 1982, he had a starring role opposite Harry Hamlin and Kate Jackson in the drama Making Love, in which he portrayed a married man who comes to terms with his homosexuality. Ontkean continued to appear in films, such as Clara's Heart (1988) and Postcards from the Edge (1990) before being cast as Sheriff Harry S. Truman on David Lynch's Twin Peaks (1990–1991), the role for which he is best known.

Played in movies:

Kids Don't Tell

Score: 10.0

Twin Peaks

Score: 8.4

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

Score: 7.3

Making Love

Score: 7.0

The Descendants

Score: 6.8

Slap Shot

Score: 6.8

Postcards from the Edge

Score: 6.6

Nico the Unicorn

Score: 6.1

Legacy of Lies

Score: 6.0

The Stepford Husbands

Score: 6.0

A Killing Spring

Score: 6.0

Just the Way You Are

Score: 6.0

The Rookies

Score: 6.0

Bear with Me

Score: 5.7

A Chance of Snow

Score: 5.6

Clara's Heart

Score: 5.5

Maid to Order

Score: 5.4

Summer of the Monkeys

Score: 5.4

Mrs. Ashboro's Cat

Score: 5.4

Bye Bye Blues

Score: 5.2

Just a Little Harmless Sex

Score: 5.2

The Man Next Door

Score: 5.0

The Peace Killers

Score: 5.0

Vendetta II: The New Mafia

Score: 5.0

The Blood of Others

Score: 5.0

The Allnighter

Score: 4.9

In Defense of a Married Man

Score: 4.8

Necromancy

Score: 4.5

Cold Front

Score: 4.4

Willie & Phil

Score: 4.3

Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica

Score: 4.2

Pickup on 101

Score: 4.0

The Right of the People

Score: 4.0

Voices

Score: 3.0

Swann

Score: 2.5

Rapture

Score: 2.0

Hot Summer Week

Score: 2.0

Green Sails

Score: 1.0

The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou

Score: 0.0

The Witching

Score: 0.0

Street Justice

Score: 0.0

US Against the World

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Twin Peaks

Score: 8.3

In a Child's Name

Score: 7.7

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.7

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.7

Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal

Score: 6.9

Ironside

Score: 6.8

The Rookies

Score: 6.8

Tales of the Unexpected

Score: 6.7

The Partridge Family

Score: 6.7

The Hitchhiker

Score: 6.2

North Shore

Score: 5.9

Great Performances

Score: 5.5

Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans

Score: 4.8

Family Album

Score: 3.9