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M. Emmet Walsh

Michael Emmet Walsh (March 22, 1935 – March 19, 2024) was an American character actor who has appeared in over 200 films and television series, including supporting roles in dozens of major studio features of the 1970s and 1980s. He starred in Blood Simple (1984), the Coen Brothers' first film for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. He also appeared in Carl Reiner's comedy The Jerk (1979), Robert Redford's drama Ordinary People (1980), Ridley Scott's science fiction film Blade Runner (1982), Barry Sonnenfeld's steampunk western Wild Wild West (1999) and Brad Bird's animated film The Iron Giant (1999).

Known For: Acting

Born: Ogdensburg, New York, USA, 1935-03-22

Died: 2024-03-19

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1969	Midnight Cowboy	Bus Passenger (uncredited)	75
2	1969	Stiletto	Racing Partner (uncredited)	52
3	1969	Alice's Restaurant	Group W Sergeant	63
4	1970	End of the Road	Crab Man / Tutu Man	46
5	1970	The Traveling Executioner	Warden Brodski	59
6	1970	Little Big Man	Shotgun Guard	75
7	1971	Cold Turkey	Art	62
8	1971	Escape from the Planet of the Apes	Aide	64
9	1971	They Might Be Giants	1st Sanitation Man	70
10	1972	What's Up, Doc?	Arresting Officer	74
11	1972	Get to Know Your Rabbit	Mr. Wendel	51
12	1973	Kid Blue	Barber	69
13	1973	Serpico	Gallagher	75
14	1974	The Gambler	Las Vegas Gambler	67
15	1975	Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic	Mr. Peterson	53
16	1975	At Long Last Love	Harold	51
17	1975	The Prisoner of Second Avenue	Doorman	67
18	1975	Crime Club	Jack Doyle	0
19	1976	The Invasion of Johnson County	Irvine	65
20	1976	Bound for Glory	Husband	69
21	1976	Nickelodeon	"Father" Logan	61
22	1976	Mikey and Nicky	Bus Driver	69
23	1977	Slap Shot	Dickie Dunn	68
24	1977	Airport '77	Dr. Williams	56
25	1977	Red Alert	Sheriff Sweeney	40
26	1978	Superdome	Whitley	41
27	1978	A Question of Guilt	Inspector McCartney	62
28	1978	Straight Time	Earl Frank	71
29	1979	No Other Love	DeFranco	70
30	1979	Dear Detective	Capt. Gorcey	0
31	1979	The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh	Wally Cantrell	56
32	1979	The Jerk	Madman	69
33	1979	The Gift	Legion Commander	0
34	1980	Skag	Moran	0
35	1980	City in Fear	Sheldon Lewis	51
36	1980	Brubaker	C.P. Woodward	71
37	1980	Raise the Titanic	Master Chief Vinnie Walker	53
38	1980	Ordinary People	Swim Coach	75
39	1980	High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane	Harold Patton	42
40	1981	Hellinger's Law	Mr. Graebner	75
41	1981	Back Roads	Arthur	54
42	1981	Reds	Speaker at Liberal Club	69
43	1982	Cannery Row	Mack	59
44	1982	Fast-Walking	Sergeant Sanger	59
45	1982	The Escape Artist	Fritz	62
46	1982	Blade Runner	Bryant	79
47	1983	The Woman Who Willed a Miracle	Joe Lemke	100
48	1983	Night Partners	Joe Kirby	70
49	1983	Silkwood	Walt Yarborough	70
50	1984	Scandalous	Simon Reynolds	25
51	1984	Blood Simple	Loren Visser	72
52	1984	The Pope of Greenwich Village	Burns	63
53	1984	The Outlaws	Warden MacDonald	0
54	1984	Grandview, U.S.A.	Mr. Clark	58
55	1984	Missing in Action	Tuck	59
56	1984	Courage	Colonel Crouse	54
57	1985	Fletch	Dr. Joseph Dolan	67
58	1986	The Right of the People	Sindaco	40
59	1986	The Best of Times	Charlie	56
60	1986	Wildcats	Walt Coes	62
61	1986	Critters	Harv	65
62	1986	Resting Place	Sarge	61
63	1986	The Deliberate Stranger	Det. Sam Davies	62
64	1986	Back to School	Coach Turnbull	63
65	1986	Hero in the Family	General Presser	61
66	1987	Broken Vows	Detective Mulligan	50
67	1987	Abduction	Don Nichols	55
68	1987	Raising Arizona	Machine Shop Ear-Bender	71
69	1987	Murder Ordained	Vern Humphrey	50
70	1987	Harry and the Hendersons	George Henderson Sr.	61
71	1987	No Man's Land	Captain Haun	60
72	1988	The Milagro Beanfield War	Governor	65
73	1988	Sunset	Chief Marvin Dibner	56
74	1988	Clean and Sober	Richard Dirks	63
75	1988	War Party	Colin Ditweiler	62
76	1988	Red Scorpion	Dewey Ferguson	60
77	1989	The Mighty Quinn	Fred Miller	61
78	1989	Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat	Mort	61
79	1989	Thunderground	Wedge	23
80	1989	Catch Me... If You Can	Johnny Phatmun	51
81	1990	Love and Lies	Clyde Wilson	0
82	1990	Chattahoochee	Morris	57
83	1990	Narrow Margin	Sergeant Dominick Benti	64
84	1990	The Flash	Henry Allen	65
85	1991	Fourth Story	Harry	56
86	1991	Silverfox	Charles Blankenship	0
87	1992	Killer Image	John Kane	43
88	1992	White Sands	Bert Gibson	59
89	1992	Wild Card	Mose	40
90	1992	Equinox	Pete Petosa	56
91	1992	The Naked Truth	Garcia / Gesundheim	26
92	1992	Four Eyes and Six-Guns		25
93	1993	The Music of Chance	Calvin Murks	65
94	1993	Wilder Napalm	Fire Chief	55
95	1993	Bitter Harvest	Sheriff Bob	45
96	1994	Madness of Method	Rudolph Thorndyke	0
97	1994	Cops & Robbersons	Captain Ted Corbett (uncredited)	51
98	1994	Camp Nowhere	T.R. Polk	59
99	1994	The Glass Shield	Det. Jesse Hall	49
100	1994	Probable Cause	Sadler	48
101	1995	Dead Badge	Sergeant Miller Hoskins	68
102	1995	Panther	Dorsett	62
103	1995	From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	Morris	70
104	1995	Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home	Bill Wilcox	59
105	1995	Relative Fear	Earl Ladelle	43
106	1996	Criminal Hearts	Martin	48
107	1996	Portraits of a Killer	Raymond Garrison	23
108	1996	A Time to Kill	Willard Tyrell Bass (uncredited)	74
109	1996	The Lottery	Chief Davis	54
110	1996	Romeo + Juliet	Apothecary	68
111	1997	Retroactive	Sam	62
112	1997	Albino Alligator	Dino	57
113	1997	The Killing Jar	Sheriff Foley	38
114	1997	My Best Friend's Wedding	Joe O'Neal	66
115	1998	Twilight	Lester Ivar	61
116	1998	Chairman of the Board	Freemont	36
117	1998	Erasable You	Ralph Worth	0
118	1998	Men in White	Stanley	34
119	1998	Nightmare in Big Sky Country	Marshal Jim Phillips	0
120	1999	Wild Wild West	Coleman	53
121	1999	Me and Will	Dean	55
122	1999	The Iron Giant	Earl Stutz (voice)	80
123	1999	Monster!	Lloyd Reeves	47
124	1999	Random Hearts	Billy (uncredited)	55
125	2000	On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'	Self	72
126	2000	Jack of Hearts	Comissioner Menlo Boyce	15
127	2000	Poor White Trash	Judge Pike	40
128	2001	Christmas in the Clouds	Stu O'Malley	61
129	2001	Eyeball Eddie	Coach Cook	60
130	2002	Snow Dogs	George	56
131	2003	Baggage	Sandy Westphall	0
132	2003	Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales	Wally Westland	78
133	2004	Christmas with the Kranks	Walt Scheel	61
134	2005	Racing Stripes	Woodzie	59
135	2005	Greener Mountains	Muggs	52
136	2007	Man in the Chair	Mickey Hopkins	64
137	2007	Big Stan	Lew Popper	66
138	2007	Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner	Self	79
139	2008	A True Character	Self	0
140	2008	Your Name Here	Kroger	33
141	2008	Haunted Echoes	Neil	42
142	2009	Don McKay	Samuel	49
143	2009	Youth in Revolt	Mr. Saunders	62
144	2010	The Assignment	Mr. Beudreaux	65
145	2010	Chasing 3000	Chuck Ireland	59
146	2011	Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency	Chief Van Owen	48
147	2012	The Odd Life of Timothy Green	Uncle Bub	70
148	2012	Arthur Newman	Zazek	56
149	2012	Love Sick Love	Ed	52
150	2014	Calvary	The Writer	71
151	2015	The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power	Gorak	51
152	2015	Boiling Pot	Dean Marison	52
153	2018	Shifting Gears	Hank	65
154	2018	Toto	Toto	0
155	2018	Change in the Air	Walter Lemke	57
156	2019	Sorry, Not Sorry	Harry's Father	60
157	2019	Faith, Hope & Love	Fr. John	75
158	2019	Raising Buchanan	Larry Kiesling	57
159	2019	South of Bix	Grandpa	0
160	2019	Knives Out	Mr. Proofroc	78
161	2021	The Mimic	The Director	41
162	2022	The Immaculate Room	Kate's Father	53
163	2023	A Little White Lie	Arthur Baldwin	57
164	2023	Dotty and Soul	Harold Eichelbaum	34
165	2024	Outlaw Posse	Catfish	53
166	2024	Brothers	Judge Farful	60
167	2025	Green and Gold	Scotty	71

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Sarge	86
2	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	General Presser	78
3	1959	Bonanza	Mattheson	75
4	1967	Ironside	Telegraph Clerk	68
5	1970	Arnie		30
6	1971	All in the Family	Billy Hartfield	79
7	1971	Nichols	Gabe McCutcheon	50
8	1971	McMillan & Wife	Officer Ames	69
9	1972	The Waltons	David Fletcher	71
10	1972	The Bob Newhart Show	Jack Hoover	75
11	1972	The Sandy Duncan Show		0
12	1974	Little House on the Prairie		79
13	1974	The Rockford Files	Edgar Burch	75
14	1975	Baretta		63
15	1975	Starsky & Hutch	Freddie	73
16	1975	Starsky & Hutch	Lloyd Herman Eckworth	73
17	1976	Gibbsville	Yostie	0
18	1979	The French Atlantic Affair	Harry	70
19	1981	East of Eden	Sheriff Horace Quinn	73
20	1983	AfterMASH	Reverend Horn	51
21	1983	The Hitchhiker	Detective Underhill	61
22	1985	The Twilight Zone	Peter (segment "Dealer's Choice")	78
23	1985	Amazing Stories	Grandpa	75
24	1987	Murder Ordained	Vern Humphrey	54
25	1989	Brotherhood of the Rose	Hardy	67
26	1989	Unsub	Ned Platt	75
27	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Jonas	80
28	1990	The Flash	Henry Allen	74
29	1990	The Civil War	Various	80
30	1991	Home Improvement	Colonel	74
31	1993	The X-Files	Arthur Dales	84
32	1993	Frasier	Rich Koechner	77
33	1993	NYPD Blue	Joe Kroft	70
34	1994	Baseball	(voice)	73
35	1995	The Outer Limits	Sanford Vallé	77
36	1996	Tracey Takes On...		85
37	1996	The West	Self (voice)	84
38	1996	Early Edition	Santa	73
39	1998	The Wild Thornberrys	Gemsbok #1 (voice)	69
40	1999	The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot	Mack (voice)	72
41	2000	Ed	Mayor Wally Kendricks	77
42	2001	Night Visions	Gus (segment "Reunion")	72
43	2001	The Guardian	Ezra Pence	68
44	2002	What's New, Scooby-Doo?	Jeb (voice)	79
45	2003	Charlie Lawrence	Cubby	70
46	2007	Damages	Lyle Hewes	75
47	2010	Adventure Time	Cosmic Owl	85
48	2010	Pound Puppies	Olaf (voice)	52
49	2014	Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories	Detective	74
50	2015	Empire	Harold Blakeley	72
51	2015	Sneaky Pete	Tex Hopkins	75
52	2019	The Righteous Gemstones	Roy Gemstone	74
53	2022	American Gigolo	Coleman	68