Michael Ontkean
Gender: Male
Born: 24th January 1946 (currently 66 years old)
Nationality: Canada
TV programs: Twin Peaks, The Rookies, The Stepford Husbands
Movies: Making Love, Slap Shot, The Allnighter, Maid to Order, Bye Bye Blues, Just the Way You Are, Clara's Heart, The Stepford Husbands, Street Justice, Bear With Me, Willie & Phil, Summer of the Monkeys, Girls on the Road, A Killing Spring, Green Sails, Ghost Cat, The Peacekillers, A Chance of Snow, Family Album, Kids Don't Tell, Voices, The Outer Limits: The New Series: Death & Beyond, The Blood of Others
Michael Leonard Ontkean (born 24 January 1946) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for the 1970s crime drama The Rookies, the film Slap Shot (1977), and the cult-favorite TV series Twin Peaks (1990–1991).
Ontkean was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of Muriel (née Cooper), an actress, and Leonard Ontkean, a boxer and actor. He was a child actor in Vancouver and he appeared on the Canadian television series Hudson's Bay (1959).
Ontkean also grew up playing hockey and he earned a hockey scholarship to the University of New Hampshire, a Division I program playing in the ECAC. A very capable player, in his three years on the varsity program, Ontkean scored 63 goals and 111 points in 85 games. He led the team in goal scoring his junior year with 30 goals, and was second behind fellow Canadian Louis Frigon his senior year.
He began in Hollywood by guest starring in "The Partridge Family" in 1971, and soon enough, he was a television guest player on such shows as Ironside and Longstreet, but his break and best-known TV role was in the ABC series The Rookies (1972–1976), in which he played Officer Willie Gillis for the first two seasons.
Ontkean's hockey prowess
(This is information generated from a Wikipedia article, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.)
Internet Movie Database