Michael Ontkean

Michael Ontkean
Date of Birth: 24 Jan 1946
Country: Canada
Total Credits at Criticker: 32 (Actor)
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The Allnighter
Molly, Val and Gina are graduating college, but on their final night, frustrations are aired. (imdb)
Slap Shot
A failing ice hockey team finds success using constant fighting and violence during games. (imdb)
Maid to Order
Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. (imdb)
Girls on the Road
After an unusual credit sequence featuring busty cult starlet Uschi Digart, the film follows the story of two girls (Kathleen Cody and The Fifth Floor's Diane Hull) on their way to a hippie encounter session run by Ralph Waite (The Waltons). They pick up a crazed Vietnam veteran (Michael Ontkean from Twin Peaks) who has grainy flashbacks in both black & white and distorted color, aside from having a bipolar mood disorder. He might just be the serial killer who is murdering hippies... (All Movie Guide)
Making Love
A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men. (imdb)
The Blood of Others
WWII. In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection. (imdb)
Clara\
David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and David develop a close bond, opening his eyes and heart to new experiences, and eventually leading to a disturbing secret in Clara's past. (imdb)
A Killing Spring
When Reed Gallagher, dean of Journalism at Lanholme College, is found dead of asphyxiation in an apparent attempt at autoerotic suffocation, Joanne Kilbourn is pulled into the murky world of kinky sex, academic competitiveness and ruthless ambition. (imdb)
Bear with Me
The further adventures of Masha, a bear cub in the Canadian wilderness. Emily, a "cub" reporter for her school newspaper, gets into danger investigating illegal logging in the woods, which reunites her with Masha. (film.com)
Just the Way You Are
When a crippled musician (Kristy McNichol) uses a ski vacation as a way to disguise her handicap, she discovers romance. (www.starz.com)
The Peace Killers
Siblings Kristy and Jeffrey are buying supplies at a remote desert gas station when some members of a biker gang come cruising in. The bikers recognize Kristy, who used to be the main squeeze of the gang's leader before she ran away. The pair get away, but the bikers find out that they're living in a nearby commune, and start making their battle plans to bring Kristy back. (imdb)
Willie & Phil
Remake of Jules et Jim following the experiences over a decade of two friends who fall in love with the same woman, enjoyably satirising the 70's through the search by the three protagonists for their identities and making sharp attacks on cultural signposts of the decade along the way. The film also studies relationships, what its director calls "wanting something permanent yet wanting to be free". (imdb)
Mrs. Ashboro\
Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old Mrs. Ashboro and her pet cat, Margaret. When strange things start happening in the house, all fingers point to the presence of Margaret, who died the same day as Mrs. Ashboro. But why has she come back to haunt them? (imdb)
Summer of the Monkeys
Summer Of The Monkeys (set in the 1800's on the prairies of Canada) follows the story of a young boy, Jay, who dreams of getting enough money to buy his dream horse. One summer Jay finds four chimps on the prairie who have fallen off a circus cart. He later learns that there is a big reward for them. Enough to buy the horse, however, as time goes on he befriends the chimps, and it becomes apparent that Jay can't bear to part with them. (imdb)
Cold Front
An American cop teams up with a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman and together they uncover a plot to hide international terrorists in Vancouver. (imdb)
The Descendants
A land baron tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife suffers a boating accident. (imdb)
Voices
His world is music. She lives in a world without sound. (imdb)
Pickup on 101
An elderly wanderer, a sexy young girl running away from home and a folk singer looking for stardom hitch-hike their way cross-country, trying to get to California. (imdb)
Kids Don\
filmmaker John Ryan agrees to produce a documentary on the sexual abuse of children in the American status quo. However, his wife Claudia becomes increasingly despondent and troubled as the filmmaker immerses himself further into the project. Ryan obtains participation from a host of experts in the field, including a police detective who provides powerful insight into how the legal system fails, and a habitual molester who tells of his technique for choosing and assaulting his victims. (en.wikipedia.org)
The Man Next Door
A community is shocked to learn that their new neighbour is a convicted sex offender who has been paroled.
A Chance of Snow
After signing her divorce papers, a woman heads out to her Minnesota airport with her sister and daughters for a flight to her mother's home. At the airport, her sportswriter husband shows up to catch a flight to Miami to visit his father. When a blizzard hits, the two suddenly find they have time to re-evaluate their relationship with assistance from an older couple.
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks (1990) - TV Series
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (imdb)
Family Album
Family Album (1994) - TV Mini-Series
Based on Danielle Steel's novel of a celebrated actress-filmmaker whose family life is marked with love and strife. (imdb)
The Rookies
The Rookies (1972) - TV Series
The trials and adventures of three young police officers.
In a Child\
In a Child's Name (1991) - TV Mini-Series
A true story about a woman who fights her brother-in-law's parents for custody of her deceased sister's baby upon learning that her brother-in-law murdered her sister.
Bye Bye Blues
When a Canadian soldier goes missing during World War 2, his wife starts singing to pay the bills and takes up with one of her bandmates.
The Boy from Dead Man\
Two young boys must retrieve a church bell from the depths of a murky lagoon in a Louisiana swamp. Complicating matters is the fact that the lagoon is home to a large and deadly alligator.
Twin Peaks - Season 1
  • Pilot (1990) - Season 1
Twin Peaks - Season 2
Tales of the Unexpected - Season 1
The Hitchhiker - Season 5
Seers & Clowns
A collage of spiritual philosophy presented as silly.