FrameThrower · Actors · Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside
7 films · 464 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1981–2015
Born 12 February 1950 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Frederick Reginald Ironside, 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).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 464 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1981–2015
- Time Machine Award2011
How their films are shot
Measured across 464 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Michael takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Michael takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 464 frames from Michael Ironside's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.