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Acting

Known Credits

177

Gender

Male

Birthday

1914-10-13

Deathday

1986-08-20 (71 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, U.S.

Walter Brooke

Biography

Walter Brooke (October 23, 1914 – August 20, 1986) was an American actor. Brooke is best known for playing Mr. McGuire in The Graduate, where he said his famous line, "Plastics".

He is also remembered for playing district attorney Frank Scanlon in the television series The Green Hornet. Brooke appeared on stage in the 1957 production of Hide and Seek at the Shubert Theatre in Washington, D.C.

Brooke died from emphysema on August 20, 1986, aged 71.

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Acting

1985		Jagged Edge as Duane Bendix
1985		Beyond Reason as Dr. Grovenor

1983		Automan as Theodore Behrens
1983		The A-Team as General Bullen
1983		White Water Rebels as Leonard Phelps

1982		St. Elsewhere as Dr. Lunden
1982		Cagney & Lacey

1981		Nero Wolfe
1981		Falcon Crest as Carter St. John
1981		Advice to the Lovelorn as Walter Sheehan
1981		Simon & Simon
1981		Scruples as Dr. Rutgers
1981		Separate Ways as Lawrence Stevens

1980		The Nude Bomb as American Ambassador
1980		Make Me an Offer as Glenn Harris

1979		Visions of Christmas Past
1979		Knots Landing as Henry
1979		Beggarman, Thief as American Intelligence Agent
1979		Mirror, Mirror as Dr. Samuel Shaw
1979		Hart to Hart
1979		Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as U.S. President
1979		North Dallas Forty as Doctor
1979		In Search of Historic Jesus as Joseph of Arimathea
1979		Mrs. Columbo

1978		The New Adventures of Heidi as Cousin Tobias
1978		Vega$
1978		Dallas as Cole Young

1977		The Incredible Hulk
1977		The Pinballs as Mr. Mason
1977		Big Hawaii as Giles Webber
1977		Lou Grant as Reggie Washburn
1977		Black Sunday as Fowler
1977		Fun with Dick and Jane as Mr. Weeks

1976		Fury of the Dragon as Frank P. Scanlon
1976		Quincy, M.E.
1976		Quincy, M.E. as Dr. Max Gilliam
1976		Charlie's Angels as Twilliger
1976		Charlie's Angels as Mr. Kellerman
1976		Street Killing as The Major
1976		La revanche du dragon as Dist. atty. Scanlon
1976		The Big Bus as Mr. Ames
1976		Time Travelers as Dr. Stafford
1976		St. Ives as Mickey

1975		The Other Side of the Mountain as Dean
1975		Starsky & Hutch
1975		Framed as Sen. Tatum
1975		Bronk
1975		S.W.A.T.
1975		Archer
1975		Stowaway to the Moon as Whitehead

1974		The Rockford Files as Clyde Russell
1974		The Rockford Files as Mr. Gertmanian
1974		The Rockford Files as NIA Agent Bill Simonds
1974		The Rockford Files as Dr. Bosca
1974		Little House on the Prairie
1974		Petrocelli as Arthur Martin
1974		Run, Joe, Run
1974		Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
1974		Harrad Summer as Sam Grove
1974		The Chadwick Family as Dr. Simon
1974		Winter Kill as Ben
1974		The Green Hornet as Dist. Atty Scanlon
1974		The Stranger Who Looks Like Me as Mr. Denver
1974		The Cowboys as Reager
1974		The Six Million Dollar Man as General Harland Tate
1974		The Six Million Dollar Man as General Wiley
1974		The Six Million Dollar Man as Dr. Tellman

1973		Executive Action as Smythe
1973		Kojak as Judge Lavery
1973		The Magician as Orin Connover

1972		The Streets of San Francisco
1972		The Streets of San Francisco as John Wilcox
1972		The Streets of San Francisco as George Webster
1972		MAS*H as General Weiskopf
1972		The Waltons as Mr. Clarence Johnson
1972		Banacek as Walter Peterson
1972		The Rookies
1972		Emergency! as James Barnes
1972		The Sixth Sense
1972		The Astronaut as Tom Everett

1971		McMillan & Wife as D. A. Chapman
1971		McMillan & Wife as Martin Sandowski
1971		A Tattered Web as Lt. Preston
1971		Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Mr. Patrick
1971		Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Dr. Yates
1971		Bearcats! as Fairfield
1971		The Man and the City
1971		The Return of Count Yorga as Bill Nelson
1971		The Mephisto Waltz as Party Guest (uncredited)
1971		The Andromeda Strain as Assistant to Cabinet Secretary (uncredited)
1971		Lawman as Luther Harris
1971		Sarge: The Badge or the Cross as Rector
1971		Alias Smith and Jones

1970		San Francisco International as Clifford Foster Evans
1970		Dan August as Earl Jackson
1970		Arnie
1970		The Landlord as William Enders
1970		Zig Zag as Adam Mercer
1970		Tora! Tora! Tora! as Captain Theodore Wilkinson

1969		Marooned as Network Commentator
1969		Marcus Welby, M.D. as Dr. Roy Staples
1969		Room 222
1969		Daddy's Gone A-Hunting as Jerry Wolfe

1968		Lancer
1968		The Outcasts
1968		Hawaii Five-O as Samuel Hammock
1968		The Outsider
1968		How Sweet It Is! as Haskell Wax
1968		Yours, Mine and Ours as Howard Beardsley
1968		Sergeant Ryker as Col. Arthur Merriam

1967		The Graduate as Mr. McGuire
1967		Mannix
1967		Mannix as Captain Wells
1967		Mannix as Mark Mitchell
1967		The Danny Thomas Hour
1967		The High Chaparral as Carney
1967		The High Chaparral as Robert Morris
1967		Judd for the Defense
1967		Ironside
1967		Dragnet as Capt. Carl Fuller
1967		The Invaders as Danvers

1966		The Rat Patrol as Capt. Vulcan
1966		The Green Hornet as Frank P. Scanlon

1965		Paradise Bay
1965		The F.B.I. as Lucas Vale
1965		The Wild Wild West as Prosecutor
1965		The Big Valley as Dave Steigler
1965		Run for Your Life as The Examiner
1965		Run for Your Life as Richard Phillips
1965		Run for Your Life as Ralph Phillips

1964		The Munsters
1964		Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Dan Case

1963		Kraft Suspense Theatre as Col. Arthur Merriam
1963		The Great Adventure as Taylor
1963		Mr. Novak as Jess Capper
1963		The Fugitive as Jesse Platt
1963		The Fugitive as Wilcox
1963		The Fugitive as Moderator
1963		The Greatest Show on Earth
1963		Grindl
1963		Arrest and Trial as Doc

1962		McHale's Navy as Capt. Harper
1962		The Virginian as Lt. Paul Kenner
1962		The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm as The Mayor (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
1962		The Beachcomber as Erickson

1961		Ben Casey
1961		Bus Stop
1961		Dr. Kildare as William Fredericks
1961		Bloodlust! as Dean Gerrard

1959		Hawaiian Eye
1959		The Twilight Zone as Chad Cooper
1959		The Twilight Zone as Dr. Raymond Gordon
1959		Bonanza as Tobias Wentworth Finch
1959		Bonanza as Atworth Perry
1959		New York Confidential

1958		The Donna Reed Show
1958		Bronco
1958		The Party Crashers as Mr. Webster

1957		Trackdown
1957		Perry Mason as District Attorney
1957		Perry Mason as Deputy D.A.

1955		Cheyenne as Edward DeVier
1955		Gunsmoke as Capt. Nichols
1955		Conquest of Space as Gen. Samuel T. Merritt

1953

Letter to Loretta as Mr. Brown

1951

Tales of Tomorrow

1950

Pulitzer Prize Playhouse

1949

C-Man as Joe

1948		Studio One as Jeff
1948		The Philco Television Playhouse

1942		Desperate Journey as Sgt. Warwick
1942		In This Our Life as Cab Driver (uncredited)
1942		Murder in the Big House as Reporter (uncredited)
1942		The Male Animal as Reporter (uncredited)
1942		Bullet Scars as Trooper Walter Leary
1942		All Through the Night as Reporter (uncredited)

1941

They Died with Their Boots On as Cadet Rosser (uncredited)