Michael Ontkean

Other early movie roles included Willie & Phil (1980) with Margot Kidder, Making Love (1982), The Blood of Others (1984), The Allnighter (1987) and Maid to Order (1987) with Ally Sheedy, Clara's Heart (1988) with Whoopi Goldberg and Bye Bye Blues (1989). Making Love is about a married man who discovers his homosexuality. Ontkean was not the director's first choice for the film: Arthur Hiller had previously approached Tom Berenger, Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford, William Hurt and Peter Strauss to play the lead, before finally approaching Ontkean. According to Hiller, the reaction of most actors was to tell him not to even consider them for the role. The film reunited Jackson and Ontkean, who had previously co-starred together in The Rookies. Many years later, Ontkean tried to prevent clips from the film from being shown in The Celluloid Closet, a 1996 documentary about LGBT characters in film, but he was unsuccessful. Read Less