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Michael Ensign

Michael Ensign[needs IPA] (born February 13, 1944) is an American actor who has mostly played supporting roles. One of his most-known roles was Benjamin Guggenheim in the epic historical romance film Titanic (1997).

Ensign, as Michael Evans, began his acting career as a child in Phoenix, Arizona, where he attended Arcadia High School. Ensign trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and spent the first ten years of his professional career working in the theatre in Britain.

He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1970s, appearing in productions of As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost, and Cymbeline amongst others. He has appeared in Irene, Curse of the Starving Class, and The Red Devil Battery Sign in the West End.

Ensign's film credits include Superman (1978), Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982), WarGames (1983), Ghostbusters (1984), Dr. Hackenstein (1988), Titanic (1997), Solaris (2002), Bringing Down the House (2003), Down with Love (2003) and Seabiscuit (2003).

Ensign's many television appearances include Boston Legal, Three’s Company, Alias, Monk, JAG, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Star Trek: Enterprise, The X-Files, Friends, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation, MacGyver, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, M*A*S*H, The A-Team, and The Dukes Of Hazzard. He appeared in the TV miniseries The Winds of War and Dream West.

Ensign provided the voice of the villainous Doctor Nefarious Tropy in the video games Crash Bandicoot: Warped (1998), Crash Team Racing (1999), Crash Nitro Kart (2003) and Crash Twinsanity (2004). His role of N. Tropy was later passed down to Corey Burton, who voiced the character in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2001), Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (2017), and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (2019), and then passed to J. P. Karliak, who currently voices the latter in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (2020). In 2002, he voiced the main villain Raphael Drake in James Bond 007: Nightfire. He also gave his voice for Dr. Sebastian Wolfe in 2011 video game Infamous 2.

In 2009 Ensign was given the Distinguished Alumnus Award for Theatre from the College of Fine Arts at University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Writing in Forbes in 2011, David M. Ewalt noted,

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