Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about MICHAEL IRONSIDE!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Michael Ironside is a Canadian actor and voice actor . he is best known for playing villains and “tough guy” heroes . his father was a street lighting technician and laborer . Ironside won the senior writing award at Riverdale Collegiate Institute in 1967 . he played the role of a serial killer in the 1982 slasher film Visiting Hours . his breakthrough role was as c Ironside played the villainous General Katana in the science fiction sequel Highlander II: the Quickening . he was tapped to replace Roy Scheider as captain of the high-tech submarine seaQuest . Ironside appeared in The Perfect Storm (2000) and The Machinist (2004) . he voiced comic book villain Darkseid in Superman: the Animated Series . he voiced Batman in one episode of The New Batman Adventures . he also voiced Lois Lane’s father in three episodes of Smallville . Ironside signed a five-year deal to portray Captain Jona he appeared in justified as a Detroit hitman the following year . he also voiced the role of Ultra Magnus in season 3 of the Transformers prime tv series .