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).
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
The Flash
7.4
Arnie
3
Starsky & Hutch
7.243
Home Improvement
7.375
Little House on the Prairie
7.938
Early Edition
7.3
The Twilight Zone
7.748
All in the Family
7.836
Ed
7.7
Tales from the Crypt
7.953
The Bob Newhart Show
7.5
Tracey Takes On...
8.5
Baretta
6.3
The Civil War
7.958
Frasier
7.681
The X-Files
8.378
Night Visions
7.194
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
The Sandy Duncan Show
0
The Hitchhiker
6.226
Unsub
7.5
The Outer Limits
7.7
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
7.2
The Wild Thornberrys
6.876
Empire
7.145
Amazing Stories
7.49
The Righteous Gemstones
7.447
McMillan & Wife
6.875
Nichols
5
Pound Puppies
5.2
The French Atlantic Affair
7
Charlie Lawrence
7
Brotherhood of the Rose
6.7
Bonanza
7.512
The Rockford Files
7.522
East of Eden
7.3
Murder Ordained
5.429
What's New, Scooby-Doo?
7.9
American Gigolo
6.8
Damages
7.468
NYPD Blue
7
The Waltons
7.1
The West
8.389
Starsky & Hutch
7.243
The Wonderful World of Disney
7.8
Ironside
6.8
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
7.4
AfterMASH
5.1
Adventure Time
8.501
Sneaky Pete
7.503
Gibbsville
0
The Guardian
6.8
Baseball
7.3
Movies
South of Bix
0
Brubaker
7.072
The Iron Giant
7.95
Critters
6.462
Alice's Restaurant
6.3
The Best of Times
5.623
The Mighty Quinn
6.083
The Jerk
6.901
Blood Simple
7.24
Slap Shot
6.812
Chairman of the Board
3.598
Straight Time
7.136
Narrow Margin
6.395
Wild Wild West
5.319
Cold Turkey
6.22
Raise the Titanic
5.3
The Pope of Greenwich Village
6.338
Cannery Row
5.9
My Best Friend's Wedding
6.591
Harry and the Hendersons
6.116
Twilight
6.1
Fletch
6.739
Red Scorpion
5.9
Silkwood
6.9
Retroactive
6.177
Christmas in the Clouds
6.1
No Man's Land
5.951
Big Stan
6.594
Catch Me... If You Can
5.1
Christmas with the Kranks
6.142
Don McKay
4.852
The Outlaws
0
Cops & Robbersons
5.131
Man in the Chair
6.444
Missing in Action
5.866
Back to School
6.356
Back Roads
5.46
The Gambler
6.748
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
6.1
Poor White Trash
4
Me and Will
5.545
Fast-Walking
5.853
Ordinary People
7.475
The Music of Chance
6.5
Camp Nowhere
5.9
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
7.9
Reds
6.9
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
5.6
White Sands
5.9
Killer Image
4.333
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
6.7
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
6.999
War Party
6.2
The Traveling Executioner
5.9
The Deliberate Stranger
6.2
Grandview, U.S.A.
5.8
City in Fear
5.1
Thunderground
2.333
Random Hearts
5.546
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
3.333
Scandalous
2.5
Broken Vows
5.042
At Long Last Love
5.2
Nickelodeon
6.125
Love Sick Love
5.2
Monster!
4.65
Skag
0
The Naked Truth
2.625
Bitter Harvest
4.694
The Flash
6.5
Abduction
5.5
Baggage
0
Haunted Echoes
4.188
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
5.9
Calvary
7.112
Probable Cause
4.8
Racing Stripes
5.891
Four Eyes and Six-Guns
2.5
They Might Be Giants
7
Youth in Revolt
6.151
Mikey and Nicky
6.886
Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
5.3
Little Big Man
7.473
Superdome
4.083
A Time to Kill
7.381
Airport '77
5.582
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
7.2
Snow Dogs
5.6
Blade Runner
7.9
Relative Fear
4.333
Criminal Hearts
4.813
Nightmare in Big Sky Country
0
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
6.4
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
5.1
Albino Alligator
5.7
Resting Place
6.1
Greener Mountains
5.2
Courage
5.4
Serpico
7.53
Madness of Method
0
Outlaw Posse
5.3
Fourth Story
5.6
The Assignment
6.5
Murder Ordained
5
Boiling Pot
5.2
Chattahoochee
5.683
Wildcats
6.265
Brothers
6.016
Panther
6.2
Sunset
5.651
Erasable You
0
The Glass Shield
4.93
What's Up, Doc?
7.369
Portraits of a Killer
2.3
Wilder Napalm
5.5
Men in White
3.438
Silverfox
0
Raising Arizona
7.06
The Escape Artist
6.2
Get to Know Your Rabbit
5.075
End of the Road
4.6
Chasing 3000
5.952
The Gift
0
Midnight Cowboy
7.5
Hellinger's Law
7.5
Wild Card
4
Dear Detective
0
Change in the Air
5.7
The Right of the People
4
Clean and Sober
6.34
Shifting Gears
6.5
The Invasion of Johnson County
6.5
The Lottery
5.4
Toto
0
The Killing Jar
3.8
Faith, Hope & Love
7.455
Bound for Glory
6.9
Eyeball Eddie
6
Knives Out
7.8
Raising Buchanan
5.7
Dead Badge
6.75
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
5.651
Crime Club
0
Sorry, Not Sorry
6
The Mimic
4.071
Stiletto
5
Kid Blue
6.9
The Immaculate Room
5.261
A Little White Lie
5.722
The Milagro Beanfield War
6.447
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
7.167
Dotty and Soul
3.4
Green and Gold
6.65
A True Character
0
Hero in the Family
6.125
The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn
0