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
Place of birth
Ogdensburg, New York, USA
Birthday
3/22/1935
Blade Runner
7.9
Brubaker
7
The Iron Giant
7.9
Critters
6.4
Alice's Restaurant
6.2
The Best of Times
5.6
Blood Simple
7.2
The Jerk
6.9
Slap Shot
6.9
Straight Time
7.1
Chairman of the Board
3.7
Narrow Margin
6.4
Raise the Titanic
5.3
Wild Wild West
5.3
Cannery Row
5.9
My Best Friend's Wedding
6.6
Harry and the Hendersons
6.1
Silkwood
6.9
Twilight
6
Red Scorpion
6
Retroactive
6.1
Fletch
6.7
Big Stan
6.6
Christmas in the Clouds
6.5
No Man's Land
6
Catch Me If You Can
5.2
Christmas with the Kranks
6.1
Don McKay
5
Man in the Chair
6.7
Missing in Action
5.9
Back Roads
5.6
Back to School
6.3
The Gambler
6.7
Poor White Trash
4.2
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
6.2
Me and Will
6.2
Fast-Walking
5.9
Ordinary People
7.4
The Music of Chance
6.9
Camp Nowhere
5.9
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
5.5
Reds
6.9
Killer Image
4.8
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
6.7
White Sands
5.9
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
7
The Traveling Executioner
5.9
The Deliberate Stranger
6.5
Grandview, U.S.A.
5.9
City in Fear
6.2
Thunderground
3
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
7
Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency
4.8
High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane
4.2
Red Alert
4
A Question of Guilt
6.2
Your Name Here
4.5
Scandalous
4
Broken Vows
5.2
Love Sick Love
5.2
Monster!
5.2
Bitter Harvest
4.7
The Naked Truth
2
Abduction
5.5
Baggage
0
Haunted Echoes
4.6
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
5.9
Racing Stripes
5.9
Youth in Revolt
6.2
They Might Be Giants
7
Four Eyes and Six-Guns
2.5
Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
5.2
Mikey and Nicky
6.8
Superdome
4.2
Little Big Man
7.5
Calvary
7.1
A Time to Kill
7.4
Airport '77
5.6
Snow Dogs
5.6
Criminal Hearts
5.4
Relative Fear
4.7
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
6.3
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
5.2
Sunset
5.7
The Mighty Quinn
6.1
Albino Alligator
5.7
The Pope of Greenwich Village
6.3
Greener Mountains
5.2
Erasable You
0
Serpico
7.5
Courage
5.4
Fourth Story
5.6
The Assignment
6.5
Murder Ordained
5
Boiling Pot
5.8
Chattahoochee
5.7
Wildcats
6.3
Panther
6.3
The Glass Shield
4.8
What's Up, Doc?
7.3
Portraits of a Killer
2.3
Wilder Napalm
5.5
Men in White
3.6
Raising Arizona
7.1
The Escape Artist
6.1
Get to Know Your Rabbit
5
End of the Road
5.6
Chasing 3000
5.4
The Gift
0
Midnight Cowboy
7.5
Hellinger's Law
7.5
Wild Card
4
Dear Detective
0
Change in the Air
5.4
The Right of the People
4
Clean and Sober
6.3
Shifting Gears
6.7
The Invasion of Johnson County
6.5
The Lottery
5.4
Toto
0
Faith, Hope & Love
7.7
The Killing Jar
4.5
Bound for Glory
6.8
Eyeball Eddie
6
Knives Out
7.8
Raising Buchanan
5.7
Dead Badge
8.3
The Woman Who Willed a Miracle
10
Night Partners
7
Love and Lies
0
Romeo + Juliet
6.8
Equinox
5.6
Jack of Hearts
1.5
No Other Love
7
Arthur Newman
5.6
Crime Club
0
Sorry, Not Sorry
6
The Mimic
4.6
The Immaculate Room
5.3
Kid Blue
6.8
Stiletto
5.3
A Little White Lie
5.4
The Milagro Beanfield War
6.4
Cold Turkey
6.4
The Outlaws
0
Cops & Robbersons
5.1
Dangerous Days: Making 'Blade Runner'
8
Random Hearts
5.5
At Long Last Love
5.4
Nickelodeon
5.9
Skag
0
Probable Cause
4.8
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
7.2
Nightmare in Big Sky Country
0
Resting Place
6.2
South of Bix
0
War Party
6.2
The Flash
6.6
Outlaw Posse
6.5
The Flash
0