Michael Ontkean
Birthday
1946/01/24 (78 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Also know as
Michael Leonard Ontkean
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 c...Read more
Acting
(1987) Maid to Order
as Nick McGuire
(1984) The Blood of Others
as Jean
(1977) Slap Shot
as Ned Braden
(1993) Vendetta II: The New Mafia
as Hank Parnell
(1982) Making Love
as Zach
(1972) Necromancy
as Frank Brandon
(2003) Mrs. Ashboro's Cat
as Wes Merritt
(2000) Bear with Me
as Greg Bradley
(1972) The Rookies
as Willie Gillis
(1988) Clara's Heart
as Bill Hart
(1980) Willie and Phil
as Willie Kaufman
(1984) Just the Way You Are
as Peter Nichols
(1971) The Peace Killers
as Jeff
(2011) The Descendants
as Cousin Milo
(1977) US Against the World
as Self
(1972) Hot Summer Week
as Will
(1998) Summer of the Monkeys
as John Lee
(1987) Street Justice
as Curt Flynn
(1983) The Witching
as Frank Brandon
(2002) A Killing Spring
as Tom Keaton
(1990) Cold Front
as Derek McKenzie
(1999) Just a Little Harmless Sex
as Jeff
(1998) A Chance of Snow
as Matthew 'Matt' Parker
(1996) The Stepford Husbands
as Mick Davidson
(1979) Voices
as Drew Rothman
(1997) Swann
as Stephen
(1990) Postcards from the Edge
as Robert Munch
(1987) The Allnighter
as Mickey
(1992) Legacy of Lies
as ---
(1985) Kids Don't Tell
as John Ryan
(1986) The Right of the People
as Christopher Wells
(1989) Bye Bye Blues
as Teddy Cooper
(1989) Twin Peaks
as Sheriff Harry S. Truman
(1993) Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica
as Jan DeBoer
(1990) In Defense of a Married Man
as Robert
(1972) Pickup on 101
as Chuck
(1993) Rapture
as Jeff Lisker
(1998) Nico the Unicorn
as Tom Gentry
(1996) The Man Next Door
as Eli Cooley
(2014) Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
as Sheriff Harry S. Truman
(1971) The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou
as ---
(2000) Green Sails
as John Scott
(1972) The Rookies
as Willie Gillis
(2004) North Shore
as ---
(1990) Twin Peaks
as Harry S. Truman
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as Tommy
(1967) Ironside
as ---
(1996) Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
as ---
(1983) The Hitchhiker
as Gordon Brooks
(1995) The Outer Limits
as Dr. Charles McCamber
(1994) Family Album
as Ward Thayer
(1995) The Outer Limits
as Dr. Field
(1991) In a Child's Name
as Kenneth Taylor
(1957) Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
as Cochea
(1970) The Partridge Family
as Lester Braddock
(1971) Great Performances
as Lucius Harney