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Frederick Reginald Ironside (born February 12, 1950), known professionally as Michael Ironside, is a Canadian actor and filmmaker.A prominent character actor with over 270 film and television credits, he is known for playing villains and antiheroes, but has also portrayed sympathetic characters.
Ironside is an American television crime drama that aired on NBC over eight seasons from 1967 to 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside (usually addressed by the title "Chief Ironside"), a consultant to the San Francisco police department (formerly chief of detectives), who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot while on vacation.
Ironside is an American television crime drama that ran on NBC from September 14, 1967, to January 16, 1975. The series starred Raymond Burr as a paraplegic Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside. The show consists of a movie-length pilot , eight seasons of episodes, and a reunion TV-movie .
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 68% based on 44 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Scanners is a dark sci-fi story with special effects that'll make your head explode."
Elizabeth Baur, who helped Raymond Burr bring the bad guys to justice as Officer Fran Belding on the long-running NBC crime drama Ironside, has died.She was 69. Baur died Sept. 30 in Los Angeles ...
With no one to turn to for help, Barbara turns to Rob's Vietnam War veteran-brother Ben (Michael Ironside), a reclusive survivalist living in an isolated wilderness with his two dobermans, to hide her and Johnny in his cabin. Johnny finds a military tracking device in the rim of their car, but can't tell anyone since he is still traumatized by ...
Ironside was originally offered Kilmer's role, Virgil Kirkhill, but he declined, as he wanted to stretch his acting beyond playing imposing antagonists. Ironside said that he was originally drawn to the script based on the Matrix -style themes.
The new Ironside received negative reviews from critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the show an approval score of 14% based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 4.3/10; the critics consensus said: "Ironside is an unnecessary, lackluster remake that could be a decent police procedural if it wasn't so mundane and monotonous." [15]