ACTOR

Michael Ontkean

1946 - Today

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Michael Ontkean (born 24 January 1946) is a retired Canadian 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Ontkean has received more than 1,924,335 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Michael Ontkean is the 3,092nd most popular actor (up from 3,363rd in 2019), the 235th most popular biography from Canada (up from 258th in 2019) and the 69th most popular Canadian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Michael Ontkeans by language

Over the past year Michael Ontkean has had the most page views in the with 226,285 views, followed by Russian (17,452), and Italian (14,859). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Romanian (148.08%), Afrikaans (77.13%), and Portuguese (47.60%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Michael Ontkean ranks 3,092 out of 13,578. Before him are Carey Lowell, Claude Dauphin, Clive Revill, Toshio Furukawa, Jean-Marc Barr, and Estelle Harris. After him are Michael Shannon, Stanisław Mikulski, Peter Jacobson, Esai Morales, Frankie Faison, and Irm Hermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Michael Ontkean ranks 364. Before him are Roland Sandberg, Steve Kanaly, Miklós Németh, Kirsti Sparboe, Toshio Furukawa, and George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen. After him are Gordon Murray, Randy Meisner, Jan Decleir, Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian, John Spencer, and Yuko Shimizu.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Michael Ontkean ranks 235 out of 1,622. Before him are John Murray (1841), William H. McNeill (1917), Mazo de la Roche (1879), Marie Dressler (1868), Colleen Dewhurst (1924), and Gaëtan Dugas (1952). After him are R. Murray Schafer (1933), Kim Campbell (1947), David H. Levy (1948), Louise Penny (1958), David Shore (1959), and Ann Rutherford (1917).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Michael Ontkean ranks 69. Before him are Phil Hartman (1948), Marc Singer (1948), Josephine Crowell (1859), August Schellenberg (1936), Marie Dressler (1868), and Colleen Dewhurst (1924). After him are Ann Rutherford (1917), Kenneth Welsh (1942), Elias Koteas (1961), Linda Thorson (1947), Michael Wincott (1958), and Barry Pepper (1970).

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Television and Movie Roles

Twin Peaks
Harry S. Truman
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
8.296 / 10
Twin Peaks
Sheriff Harry S. Truman
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for the European VHS market and has an alternate, closed ending.)
Sep 28o 19898.4 / 10
The Descendants
Cousin Milo
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
Sep 9o 20116.8 / 10