Michael Ontkean
Acting
Born 1946-01-24
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
55 credits
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
50 credits
Twin Peaks
Great Performances
Tales of the Unexpected
The Outer Limits
The Partridge Family
The Rookies
The Hitchhiker
The Descendants
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
Twin Peaks
Slap Shot
Postcards from the Edge
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Family Album
Willie & Phil
In a Child's Name
The Allnighter
Maid to Order
Making Love
Clara's Heart
Nico the Unicorn
US Against the World
Cold Front
Just the Way You Are
Just a Little Harmless Sex
The Blood of Others
Summer of the Monkeys
Bye Bye Blues
The Stepford Husbands
The Right of the People
Mrs. Ashboro's Cat
Green Sails
In Defense of a Married Man
Pickup on 101
Necromancy
Swann
The Peace Killers
Hot Summer Week
The Man Next Door
A Chance of Snow
Street Justice
Vendetta II: The New Mafia
Bear with Me
Kids Don't Tell
A Killing Spring
Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica
The Rookies
Rapture
Voices
The Witching
Other credits
5 credits
Ironside
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
North Shore
The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou
Legacy of Lies
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