Michael Canavan

Actor

August 17, 1953 (72 years)

Portsmouth, Virginia, USA

Biography

Michael Canavan (born August 17, 1953, in Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater. He has appeared in notable films including The Island (2005), Striking Distance (1993), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Hidalgo (2004), and Murder by Numbers. His television credits feature recurring roles on shows such as 7th Heaven, Hunter, and General Hospital, with guest appearances on Grey’s Anatomy, Mad Men, Bones, Criminal Minds, and Entourage. Canavan is …

Filmography

8.2

Grey's Anatomy

Lawyer

Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

7.6

NCIS

Thomas Garscott

From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has any connection to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.

8.2

Bones

Leo Sumner

Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

7.7

CSI: Miami

Pilot

The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.

8.4

The X-Files

Cameron McPeck

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

7.7

Frasier

Reggie

After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.

7.8

Star Trek: Voyager

Curneth

Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.

8.1

Mad Men

Bob Adamson

Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising.

8.3

The West Wing

Flynn

The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.

7.5

Murder, She Wrote

Philip Stoddard

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

8.5

Malcolm in the Middle

Priest

A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.

7.9

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Tamal

At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all types of unexpected problems that come their way.

7.2

Scandal

Richard Moss

Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these "gladiators in suits," who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own.

5.6

Falcon Crest

Al Hudson

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.

7.4

Entourage

Horse Owner

Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.

7.5

Star Trek: Enterprise

Vulcan

During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.

7.0

Las Vegas

Don Skelton

Ed Deline is a strict ex-CIA officer who went from being Head of Security to becoming President of Operations of the Montecito, whose job is to run the day-to-day operations of the casino. Following his departure, former Marine Danny McCoy, Ed's former protégé, becomes the Montecito's new President of Operations.

7.1

Brothers and Sisters

David Silver

The close-knit Walker family deals with struggles and triumphs.

7.1

Hunter

Officer Bennett

Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.

6.9

Big Love

Alan Kenectle

The story of Bill Henrickson and his life in suburban Salt Lake City, balancing the needs of his three wives -- Barb, Nicki and Margene-- their seven kids, three new houses and the opening of his newest hardware store. When disturbing news arrives about Bill's father, he is forced to reconnect with his polygamist parents who live on a fundamentalist compound in rural Utah.