Michael Ontkean
Birthday: 1946-01-24
Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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 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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Maid to Order
Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exas...
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The Blood of Others
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for th...
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Slap Shot
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs...
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Making Love
A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when the husband confronts his...
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Necromancy
After Lori suffers a stillbirth, her husband Frank obtains a job with a northern California toy comp...
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Mrs. Ashboro's Cat
Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old hous...
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Bear with Me
An orphaned bear cub is adopted by little Emily and her family. They name the cub Masha, raise her a...
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The Rookies
Three new officers in a large metropolitan police department adjust to their new jobs and way of lif...
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Clara's Heart
David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. ...
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Willie & Phil
Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — beco...
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Just the Way You Are
Despite her success as a professional flute player and the constant attention of men around her, Sus...
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The Peace Killers
Siblings Kristy and Jeffrey are buying supplies at a remote desert gas station when some members of ...
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The Descendants
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King take...
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US Against the World
This NBC Special from 1977 pitted celebrities from the worlds of film and TV in the United States ag...
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Hot Summer Week
Two girls pick up a crazed hitchhiker who may or may not be the serial killer murdering hippies in t...
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Summer of the Monkeys
One summer, Jay finds four chimps on the prairie who have fallen off a circus cart....
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Street Justice
A forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown....
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The Witching
This is Gordon's re-edit of his 1972 horror film Necromancy starring Orson Welles and Pamela Frankli...
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A Killing Spring
When Reed Gallagher, dean of Journalism at Lanholme College, is found dead of asphyxiation in an app...
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Cold Front
An American cop teams up with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman and together they uncover a plot to...
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Just a Little Harmless Sex
A young married couple faces a serious break-up when the husband is caught committing adultery with ...
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The Stepford Husbands
Something sinister is going on in the town of Stepford, and this time the men should watch their bac...
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Voices
An up-and-coming nightclub singer falls in love with a shy young deaf teacher who aspires to be a da...
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Swann
Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as s...
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Postcards from the Edge
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in w...
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The Allnighter
Molly, Val and Gina are graduating college, but on their final night, frustrations are aired. Molly ...
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Legacy of Lies
A famous orchestra director was killed by the mafia when he left a restaurant. But the policeman who...
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Kids Don't Tell
When a documentary-maker begins to make a film about child sexual abuse, the subject begins to eat i...
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The Right of the People
The Second Amendment of the Constitution forms the basis of this drama that follows the crusade of a...
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Bye Bye Blues
During World War II, Daisy Cooper returns home to Canada with her children after her British husband...
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Twin Peaks
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic t...
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Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica
Based on the infamous "Baby Jessica" case, A heated custody battle between her biological and adopti...
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In Defense of a Married Man
When a defense lawyer's adulterous husband becomes the prime suspect in the murder of the woman he w...
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Pickup on 101
An elderly wanderer, a sexy young girl running away from home and a folk singer looking for stardom ...
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Rapture
A computer software designer becomes obsessed with his now-married high-school crush of 20 years bef...
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Nico the Unicorn
As an 11-year-old boy struggles to cope with a disability, he finds a pony who gives birth to a unic...
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The Man Next Door
Residents of a small town struggle when a paroled rapist moves into the area....
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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David...
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Green Sails
When ambitious CCT exec Will Patterson uncovers a corporate conspiracy, his life spirals out of cont...
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A Chance of Snow
After signing her divorce papers, a woman heads out to her Minnesota airport with her sister and dau...
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