Michael Ontkean

Michael Ontkean

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1946-01-24

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou		0
2	1971	The Peace Killers	Jeff	50
3	1972	The Rookies	Willie Gillis	60
4	1972	Pickup on 101	Chuck	40
5	1972	Hot Summer Week	Will	20
6	1972	Necromancy	Frank Brandon	45
7	1977	Slap Shot	Ned Braden	68
8	1977	US Against the World	Self	0
9	1979	Voices	Drew Rothman	30
10	1980	Willie & Phil	Willie Kaufman	43
11	1982	Making Love	Zach	70
12	1983	The Witching	Frank Brandon	0
13	1984	The Blood of Others	Jean	50
14	1984	Just the Way You Are	Peter Nichols	60
15	1985	Kids Don't Tell	John Ryan	100
16	1986	The Right of the People	Christopher Wells	40
17	1987	Street Justice	Curt Flynn	0
18	1987	The Allnighter	Mickey	49
19	1987	Maid to Order	Nick McGuire	56
20	1988	Clara's Heart	Bill Hart	55
21	1989	Bye Bye Blues	Teddy Cooper	52
22	1989	Cold Front	Derek McKenzie	44
23	1989	Twin Peaks	Sheriff Harry S. Truman	84
24	1990	Postcards from the Edge	Robert Munch	66
25	1990	In Defense of a Married Man	Robert	48
26	1992	Legacy of Lies		60
27	1993	Rapture	Jeff Lisker	20
28	1993	Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica	Jan DeBoer	42
29	1993	Vendetta II: The New Mafia	Hank Parnell	50
30	1996	The Man Next Door	Eli Cooley	50
31	1996	The Stepford Husbands	Mick Davidson	60
32	1997	Swann	Stephen	25
33	1998	Nico the Unicorn	Tom Gentry	61
34	1998	Summer of the Monkeys	John Lee	54
35	1998	A Chance of Snow	Matthew 'Matt' Parker	56
36	1999	Just a Little Harmless Sex	Jeff	52
37	2000	Green Sails	John Scott	10
38	2000	Bear with Me	Greg Bradley	57
39	2002	A Killing Spring	Tom Keaton	60
40	2003	Mrs. Ashboro's Cat	Wes Merritt	51
41	2011	The Descendants	Cousin Milo	68
42	2014	Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces	Sheriff Harry S. Truman	73

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans	Cochea	48
2	1967	Ironside		68
3	1970	The Partridge Family	Lester Braddock	67
4	1971	Great Performances	Lucius Harney	53
5	1972	The Rookies	Willie Gillis	68
6	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Tommy	67
7	1983	The Hitchhiker	Gordon Brooks	61
8	1990	Twin Peaks	Harry S. Truman	83
9	1991	In a Child's Name	Kenneth Taylor	77
10	1994	Family Album	Ward Thayer	39
11	1995	The Outer Limits	Dr. Charles McCamber	77
12	1995	The Outer Limits	Dr. Field	77
13	1996	Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal		69
14	2004	North Shore		61

Michael Ontkean

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