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Michael Ontkean (born January 24, 1946) is a retired Canadian actor, long-based in the United States. 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.
Michael Ontkean is a Canadian-born actor who played Ned Braden in Slap Shot (1977) and Sheriff Harry S. Truman in Twin Peaks (1990-1991). He also appeared in Making Love (1982), Willie & Phil (1980), The Descendants (2011) and other films and TV shows.
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- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Learn about the life and career of Michael Ontkean, a Canadian actor who played hockey in Slap Shot (1977) and Twin Peaks (1990). Find out his birth date, family, awards, trivia and more on IMDb.
- January 24, 1946
Feb 14, 2022 · Michael Ontkean (left) and Harry Hamlin . Photo: 20th Century studios/Kobal/Shutterstock. It's been four decades since Harry Hamlin played a gay writer in 1982's Making Love, a film about a...
- Liz Mcneil
Feb 3, 2012 · Michael Ontkean, aka Sheriff Harry S. Truman in Twin Peaks, plays George Clooney's cousin Milo in the Oscar-nominated The Descendants. While it's good to see Harry on the screen again, it's a pity he has no lines in the movie at all.
Feb 11, 2022 · Directed by Arthur Hiller and written by out gay screenwriters Barry Sandler and A. Scott Berg, the movie starred Hamlin and Slap Shot's Michael Ontkean as Bart and Zack — the first gay couple...
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- Ethan Alter
Jan 19, 2023 · Find out what happened to the actors who played the iconic characters on the 1990s series and its 2017 revival. Michael Ontkean, who portrayed Sheriff Harry S. Truman, retired from acting after The Descendants in 2011.
