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.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
The Rookies
6.8
North Shore
6.1
Twin Peaks
8.341
Tales of the Unexpected
6.7
Ironside
6.8
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
6.9
The Hitchhiker
6.1
The Outer Limits
7.722
Family Album
3.9
The Outer Limits
7.722
In a Child's Name
7.7
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
4.8
The Partridge Family
6.7
Great Performances
5.3
Movies
Maid to Order
5.57
The Blood of Others
4.958
Slap Shot
6.824
Vendetta II: The New Mafia
5
Making Love
7
Necromancy
4.5
Mrs. Ashboro's Cat
5.118
Bear with Me
5.1
The Rookies
6
Clara's Heart
5.5
Willie & Phil
4.3
Just the Way You Are
6
The Peace Killers
5
The Descendants
6.836
US Against the World
0
Hot Summer Week
2
Summer of the Monkeys
5.417
Street Justice
0
The Witching
0
A Killing Spring
6
Cold Front
4.4
Just a Little Harmless Sex
5.167
A Chance of Snow
5.6
The Stepford Husbands
5
Voices
3
Swann
2.5
Postcards from the Edge
6.6
The Allnighter
4.872
Legacy of Lies
6
Kids Don't Tell
0
The Right of the People
4
Bye Bye Blues
5.2
Twin Peaks
8.4
Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica
4.2
In Defense of a Married Man
4.8
Pickup on 101
4
Rapture
2
Nico the Unicorn
6.111
The Man Next Door
5
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
7.278
The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou
0
Green Sails
1