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M. Emmet Walsh
Walsh at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	Michael Emmet Walsh March 22, 1935 (1935-03-22) (age 74) Ogdensburg, New York, U.S.

Michael Emmet Walsh (born March 22, 1935) is an American actor who has appeared in over 100 film and television productions.

1 Life and career
2 Filmography
3 References
4 External links

Life and career

Walsh, an Irish American,^[1]^[2] was born in Ogdensburg, New York, the son of Agnes Kathrine (née Sullivan) and Harry Maurice Walsh, Sr., a customs agent.^[3] He was raised in a rural area of Vermont.^[1] After attending college at Clarkson University, he came to prominence in the 1978 crime drama, Straight Time, in which he played a sadistic parole officer. One of his most acclaimed roles was as Bryant in Ridley Scott's cult classic Blade Runner. Another notable role is as the double-crossing private detective in Blood Simple (1984) for which he won the 1986 Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. Walsh made occasional guest appearances on Home Improvement as Tim Allen's father-in-law. In 1992 he appeared as a powerful US Senator in David Winning's Killer image, playing Michael Ironside's brother. In Christmas with the Kranks, he played one of Allen's neighbors. He also appeared as Alex Lembeck, a motorcycle cop who appointed himself as Sandy Stockton's (Sandy Duncan) chaperone/ protector on The Sandy Duncan Show in 1972.

According to Roger Ebert's Stanton-Walsh Rule, "no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad." Ebert later conceded that this rule was broken by 1999's Wild Wild West.

Filmography

Alice's Restaurant (1969) – Group W Sergeant
Midnight Cowboy (1969) – Bus Passenger
Little Big Man (1970) – Shotgun Guard
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) - Aide to General Winthrop
What's Up, Doc? (1972) – Arresting Officer
Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972) – Mr. Wendel
Kid Blue (1973) – Jonesy
Serpico (1973) – Chief Ghallagher
Doctor Dan (1974) – Mr. Wallace
At Long Last Love (1975) – Harold
Crime Club (1975) – Lt. Jack Doyle
The Invasion of Johnson County (1976) – Irvine
Mikey and Nicky (1976) – Bus Driver
Slap Shot (1976) – Dickie Dunn
Airport '77 (1977) – Dr. Williams
Red Alert (1977 CBS-TV movie) – Sheriff Sweeney
Superdome (1978 ABC-TV movie) – Whitley
A Question of Guilt (1978) – McCarthy
Straight Time (1978) – Earl Frank
Dear Detective (1979) – Capt. Gorcey
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) – Wally Cantrell
The Jerk (1979) – Madman
Brubaker (1980) – C.P. Woodward
Raise the Titanic! (1980) – Master Chief Walker
Ordinary People (1980) – Coach Salan
Black Roads (1981) – Arthur
Reds (1981) - Speaker at Liberal Club
Cannery Row (1982) – Mack
The Escape Artist (1982) – Fritz
Blade Runner (1982) – Bryant
Fast-Walking (1983) – Sergeant Sanger
Silkwood (1983) – Walt Yarborough
Courage (1984) – Colonel Crouse
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984) – Mr. Clark
The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) – Burns
Blood Simple (1984) – Loren Visser
Missing in Action (1984) – Tuck
Fletch (1985) – Dr. Joseph Dolan
Wildcats (1986) – Walt Coes
Critters (1986) – Harv
The Best of Times (1986) - Charlie
Back to School (1986) – Coach Turnbull
Harry and the Hendersons (1987) – George Henderson Sr
No Man's Land (1987) – Capt. Haun
Raising Arizona (1987) – Machine Shop Ear-Bender
Clean and Sober (1988) – Richard Dirks
War Party (1988) – Colin Ditwelier
Red Scorpion (1989) – Dewey Furguson
The Mighty Quinn(1989)- Fred Miller

Catch Me ...If You Can (1989) - Johnny Phatmun
Chattahoochee (1989) – Morris
Love and Lies (1990) – Clyde Wilson
The Flash (1990) – Henry Allen
Narrow Margin (1990)- Sergeant Dominick Benti
Fourth Story (1991) – Harry
Silverfox (1991) – Charles Blankenship
The Naked Truth (1992) – Garcia
Killer Image (1992) – Senator John Kane
White Sands (1992) – Bert Gibson
Equinox (1992) - Pete Petosa
Bitter Harvest (1993) – Sherrif Bob
The Music of Chance (1993) – Caretaker Calvin Murks
Relative Fear (1994) – Earl Ladelle
Camp Nowhere (1994) – T.R. Polk
The Glass Shield (1994) – Hal
Cops & Robbersons (1994)
Criminal Hearts (1995) – Martin
Dead Badge (1995) – Sgt. Miller Hoskins
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995) – Bill Wilcox
Panther (1995) – Dorsett
The Killing Jar (1996) – Sherrif Foley
Portraits of a Killer (1996) – Raymond Garrison
Albino Alligator (1996) – Dino
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) – Apothecary
Retroactive (1997) – Sam
My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) – Joe O'Neal
Twilight (1998) – Lester Ivar
Erasable You (1998) – Ralph Worth
Nightmare in Big Sky Country (1998) – Marshal Phillips
"The Unnatural" (episode of The X-Files, 1999) – Arthur Dales
Wild Wild West (1999) – Coleman
The Iron Giant (1999) – Earl Stutz (voice)
Eyeball Eddie (2000) – Coach Cook
Poor White Trash (2000) – Judge Pike
Jack of Hearts (2000) – Menlo Boyce
Christmas in the Clouds (2001) – Stu O'Malley
Snow Dogs (2002) – George Murphy
Baggage (2003) – Sandy Westphall
Greener Mountains (2004) – Muggs
Christmas with the Kranks (2004) – Walt Sheel
Racing Stripes (2005) – Woodzie
Man in the Chair (2007) – Mickey Hopkins
Big Stan (2007) – Lew Popper
Sherman's Way (2008) – Hoyt
Chasing 3000 (2008) – Chuck Ireland
Your Name Here (2008) – Kroger
Haunted Echoes (2008) – Neil
The Assignment (2009) – Mr. Beudreaux
Don McKay (2009) – Samuel
Youth in Revolt (2010) – Mr. Saunders

References

^ ^a ^b Jacobs, Alex (2008-07-12). "Walsh marks 50-year reunion". WatertownDailyTimes.com. http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20080712/NEWS05/128664262/0/FRONTPAGE/Walsh+marks+50-year+reunion. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
^ "Scott's World". UPI Arts & Entertainment. 2001-09-06. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-46709706.html. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
^ M. Emmet Walsh Biography (1935-)

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M. Emmet Walsh at the Internet Movie Database

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