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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

221

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-03-22

Deathday

2024-03-19 (88 years old)

Place of Birth

Ogdensburg, New York, USA

Also Known As

Michael Emmet Walsh
امت والش

M. Emmet Walsh

Biography

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).

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Acting

—		Roney's Point as Lance McKyle
—		Madness of Method as Rudolph Thorndyke
—		Silverfox as Charles Blankenship

2025

Green and Gold as Scotty

2024		Brothers as Judge Farful
2024		Outlaw Posse as Catfish

2023		Dotty and Soul as Harold Eichelbaum
2023		A Little White Lie as Arthur Baldwin

2022		American Gigolo as Coleman
2022		The Immaculate Room as Kate's Father

2021

The Mimic as The Director

2019		Knives Out as Mr. Proofroc
2019		The Righteous Gemstones as Roy Gemstone
2019		South of Bix as Grandpa
2019		Raising Buchanan as Larry Kiesling
2019		Faith, Hope & Love as Fr. John
2019		Sorry, Not Sorry as Harry's Father

2018		Change in the Air as Walter Lemke
2018		Toto as Toto
2018		Shifting Gears as Hank

2015		Boiling Pot as Dean Marison
2015		Sneaky Pete as Tex Hopkins
2015		The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power as Gorak
2015		Empire as Harold Blakeley

2014		Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories as Detective
2014		Calvary as The Writer

2012		Love Sick Love as Ed
2012		Arthur Newman as Zazek
2012		The Odd Life of Timothy Green as Uncle Bub

2011

Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency as Chief Van Owen

2010		Pound Puppies as Olaf (voice)
2010		Chasing 3000 as Chuck Ireland
2010		The Assignment as Mr. Beudreaux
2010		Adventure Time as Cosmic Owl

2009		Youth in Revolt as Mr. Saunders
2009		Don McKay as Samuel

2008		Haunted Echoes as Neil
2008		Your Name Here as Kroger
2008		A True Character as Self

2007		Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner as Self
2007		Big Stan as Lew Popper
2007		Damages as Lyle Hewes
2007		Man in the Chair as Mickey Hopkins

2005		Greener Mountains as Muggs
2005		Racing Stripes as Woodzie

2004

Christmas with the Kranks as Walt Scheel

2003		Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales as Wally Westland
2003		Charlie Lawrence as Cubby
2003		Baggage as Sandy Westphall

2002		What's New, Scooby-Doo? as Jeb (voice)
2002		Snow Dogs as George

2001		Night Visions as Gus (segment "Reunion")
2001		Eyeball Eddie as Coach Cook
2001		Christmas in the Clouds as Stu O'Malley

2000		Poor White Trash as Judge Pike
2000		Jack of Hearts as Comissioner Menlo Boyce
2000		Ed as Mayor Wally Kendricks
2000		On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' as Self

1999		Random Hearts as Billy (uncredited)
1999		The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot as Mack (voice)
1999		Monster! as Lloyd Reeves
1999		The Iron Giant as Earl Stutz (voice)
1999		Me and Will as Dean
1999		Wild Wild West as Coleman

1998		The Wild Thornberrys as Gemsbok #1 (voice)
1998		Nightmare in Big Sky Country as Marshal Jim Phillips
1998		Men in White as Stanley
1998		Erasable You as Ralph Worth
1998		Chairman of the Board as Freemont
1998		Twilight as Lester Ivar

1997		My Best Friend's Wedding as Joe O'Neal
1997		The Killing Jar as Sheriff Foley
1997		Albino Alligator as Dino
1997		Retroactive as Sam

1996		Romeo + Juliet as Apothecary
1996		The Lottery as Chief Davis
1996		Early Edition
1996		The West as Self (voice)
1996		A Time to Kill as Willard Tyrell Bass (uncredited)
1996		Portraits of a Killer as Raymond Garrison
1996		Criminal Hearts as Martin
1996		Tracey Takes On...

1995		Relative Fear as Earl Ladelle
1995		Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home as Bill Wilcox
1995		From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler as Morris
1995		Panther as Dorsett
1995		Dead Badge as Sergeant Miller Hoskins
1995		The Outer Limits as Sanford Vallé

1994		Probable Cause as Sadler
1994		Baseball as Various (voice)
1994		Baseball as (voice)
1994		The Glass Shield as Det. Jesse Hall
1994		Camp Nowhere as T.R. Polk
1994		Cops & Robbersons as Captain Ted Corbett (uncredited)

1993		Bitter Harvest as Sheriff Bob
1993		NYPD Blue as Joe Kroft
1993		Frasier as Rich Koechner
1993		The X-Files as Arthur Dales
1993		Wilder Napalm as Fire Chief
1993		The Music of Chance as Calvin Murks

1992		Four Eyes and Six-Guns
1992		The Naked Truth as Garcia / Gesundheim
1992		Equinox as Pete Petosa
1992		Wild Card as Mose
1992		White Sands as Bert Gibson
1992		Killer Image as John Kane

1991		Home Improvement as Colonel
1991		Fourth Story as Harry

1990		The Flash as Henry Allen
1990		The Civil War as Various
1990		Narrow Margin as Sergeant Dominick Benti
1990		The Flash as Henry Allen
1990		Chattahoochee as Morris
1990		Love and Lies as Clyde Wilson

1989		Catch Me If You Can as Johnny Phatmun
1989		Thunderground as Wedge
1989		Tales from the Crypt as Jonas
1989		Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat as Mort
1989		The Mighty Quinn as Fred Miller
1989		Unsub as Ned Platt
1989		Brotherhood of the Rose as Hardy

1988		Red Scorpion as Dewey Ferguson
1988		War Party as Colin Ditweiler
1988		Clean and Sober as Richard Dirks
1988		Sunset as Chief Marvin Dibner
1988		The Milagro Beanfield War as Governor

1987		No Man's Land as Captain Haun
1987		Harry and the Hendersons as George Henderson Sr.
1987		Murder Ordained as Vern Humphrey
1987		Murder Ordained as Vern Humphrey
1987		Raising Arizona as Machine Shop Ear-Bender
1987		Abduction as Don Nichols
1987		Broken Vows as Detective Mulligan

1986		Hero in the Family as General Presser
1986		Back to School as Coach Turnbull
1986		The Deliberate Stranger as Det. Sam Davies
1986		Resting Place as Sarge
1986		Critters as Harv
1986		Wildcats as Walt Coes
1986		The Best of Times as Charlie
1986		The Right of the People as Sindaco

1985		Amazing Stories as Grandpa
1985		The Twilight Zone as Peter (segment "Dealer's Choice")
1985		Fletch as Dr. Joseph Dolan

1984		Missing in Action as Tuck
1984		Courage as Colonel Crouse
1984		Grandview, U.S.A. as Mr. Clark
1984		The Outlaws as Warden MacDonald
1984		The Pope of Greenwich Village as Burns
1984		Blood Simple as Loren Visser
1984		Scandalous as Simon Reynolds

1983		Silkwood as Walt Yarborough
1983		The Hitchhiker as Detective Underhill
1983		Night Partners as Joe Kirby
1983		AfterMASH as Reverend Horn
1983		The Woman Who Willed a Miracle as Joe Lemke

1982		Blade Runner as Bryant
1982		The Escape Artist as Fritz
1982		Fast-Walking as Sergeant Sanger
1982		Cannery Row as Mack

1981		Reds as Speaker at Liberal Club
1981		Back Roads as Arthur
1981		Hellinger's Law as Mr. Graebner
1981		East of Eden as Sheriff Horace Quinn

1980		High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane as Harold Patton
1980		Ordinary People as Swim Coach
1980		Raise the Titanic as Master Chief Vinnie Walker
1980		Brubaker as C.P. Woodward
1980		City in Fear as Sheldon Lewis
1980		Skag as Moran

1979		The Gift as Legion Commander
1979		The Jerk as Madman
1979		The French Atlantic Affair as Harry
1979		The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh as Wally Cantrell
1979		Dear Detective as Capt. Gorcey
1979		No Other Love as DeFranco

1978		Straight Time as Earl Frank
1978		A Question of Guilt as Inspector McCartney
1978		Superdome as Whitley

1977		Red Alert as Sheriff Sweeney
1977		Airport '77 as Dr. Williams
1977		Slap Shot as Dickie Dunn

1976		Mikey and Nicky as Bus Driver
1976		Nickelodeon as "Father" Logan
1976		Bound for Glory as Husband
1976		Gibbsville as Yostie
1976		The Invasion of Johnson County as Irvine

1975		Starsky & Hutch as Freddie
1975		Starsky & Hutch as Lloyd Herman Eckworth
1975		Crime Club as Jack Doyle
1975		The Prisoner of Second Avenue as Doorman
1975		At Long Last Love as Harold
1975		Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic as Mr. Peterson
1975		Baretta

1974		The Gambler as Las Vegas Gambler
1974		The Rockford Files as Edgar Burch
1974		Little House on the Prairie

1973		Serpico as Gallagher
1973		Kid Blue as Barber

1972		The Sandy Duncan Show
1972		The Bob Newhart Show as Jack Hoover
1972		The Waltons as David Fletcher
1972		Get to Know Your Rabbit as Mr. Wendel
1972		What's Up, Doc? as Arresting Officer

1971		McMillan & Wife as Officer Ames
1971		Nichols as Gabe McCutcheon
1971		They Might Be Giants as 1st Sanitation Man
1971		Escape from the Planet of the Apes as Aide
1971		Cold Turkey as Art
1971		All in the Family as Billy Hartfield

1970		Little Big Man as Shotgun Guard
1970		The Traveling Executioner as Warden Brodski
1970		Arnie
1970		End of the Road as Crab Man / Tutu Man

1969		Alice's Restaurant as Group W Sergeant
1969		Stiletto as Racing Partner (uncredited)
1969		Midnight Cowboy as Bus Passenger (uncredited)

1967

Ironside as Telegraph Clerk

1959

Bonanza as Mattheson

1954

The Wonderful World of Disney as General Presser

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sarge