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
7.247
Home Improvement
7.4
Little House on the Prairie
7.937
Early Edition
7.3
The Twilight Zone
7.762
All in the Family
7.9
Ed
7.7
Tales from the Crypt
7.949
The Bob Newhart Show
7.5
Tracey Takes On...
8.5
Baretta
6.3
The Civil War
7.966
Frasier
7.674
The X-Files
8.4
Night Visions
7.2
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
The Sandy Duncan Show
0
The Hitchhiker
6.1
Unsub
7.5
The Outer Limits
7.722
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
7.2
The Wild Thornberrys
6.9
Empire
7.159
Amazing Stories
7.441
The Righteous Gemstones
7.427
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
7.5
The Rockford Files
7.5
Baseball
7.341
East of Eden
7.3
Murder Ordained
5.429
What's New, Scooby-Doo?
7.864
American Gigolo
6.8
Damages
7.5
The West
8.4
NYPD Blue
7
Starsky & Hutch
7.247
The Waltons
7.1
Ironside
6.8
The Wonderful World of Disney
7.774
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
7.4
AfterMASH
5.1
Adventure Time
8.495
Sneaky Pete
7.483
Baseball
7.341
Gibbsville
0
The Guardian
6.8
Movies
South of Bix
0
Brubaker
7.063
The Iron Giant
7.948
Critters
6.471
Alice's Restaurant
6.3
The Best of Times
5.613
The Mighty Quinn
6.1
The Jerk
6.9
Blood Simple
7.243
Slap Shot
6.824
Chairman of the Board
3.598
Straight Time
7.149
Narrow Margin
6.386
Wild Wild West
5.321
Cold Turkey
6.22
Raise the Titanic
5.346
The Pope of Greenwich Village
6.323
Cannery Row
5.9
My Best Friend's Wedding
6.594
Harry and the Hendersons
6.115
Twilight
6.067
Fletch
6.739
Red Scorpion
5.924
Silkwood
6.951
Retroactive
6.171
Christmas in the Clouds
6.1
No Man's Land
5.9
Big Stan
6.589
Catch Me... If You Can
5.1
Christmas with the Kranks
6.145
Don McKay
4.852
The Outlaws
0
Cops & Robbersons
5.1
Man in the Chair
6.444
Missing in Action
5.865
Back to School
6.347
Back Roads
5.396
The Gambler
6.7
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
6.1
Poor White Trash
4
Me and Will
5.7
Fast-Walking
5.853
Ordinary People
7.472
The Music of Chance
6.5
Camp Nowhere
5.9
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
7.9
Reds
6.886
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
5.6
White Sands
5.909
Killer Image
4.333
Roney's Point
0
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
6.7
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
7
War Party
6.2
The Traveling Executioner
5.9
The Deliberate Stranger
6.2
Grandview, U.S.A.
5.8
City in Fear
6.2
Thunderground
2.333
Random Hearts
5.5
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
5.093
Nickelodeon
6.105
Love Sick Love
5.2
Monster!
4.65
Skag
0
The Naked Truth
2.625
Bitter Harvest
4.469
The Flash
6.5
Abduction
5.5
Baggage
0
Haunted Echoes
4.188
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
5.9
Calvary
7.116
Probable Cause
4.8
Racing Stripes
5.9
Four Eyes and Six-Guns
2.5
They Might Be Giants
7
Youth in Revolt
6.156
Mikey and Nicky
6.895
Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
5.292
Little Big Man
7.477
Superdome
4.083
A Time to Kill
7.377
Airport '77
5.576
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
7.2
Snow Dogs
5.6
Blade Runner
7.94
Relative Fear
4.333
Criminal Hearts
4.813
Nightmare in Big Sky Country
0
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
6.372
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
5.2
Albino Alligator
5.7
Resting Place
6.1
Greener Mountains
5.2
Courage
5.4
Serpico
7.531
Madness of Method
0
Outlaw Posse
5.3
Fourth Story
5.6
The Assignment
6.5
Murder Ordained
5
Boiling Pot
5.2
Chattahoochee
5.7
Wildcats
6.2
Brothers
6.016
Panther
6.2
Sunset
5.616
Erasable You
0
The Glass Shield
4.9
What's Up, Doc?
7.364
Portraits of a Killer
2.3
Wilder Napalm
5.5
Men in White
3.438
Silverfox
0
Raising Arizona
7.058
The Escape Artist
6.2
Get to Know Your Rabbit
5.075
End of the Road
4.6
Chasing 3000
5.9
The Gift
0
Midnight Cowboy
7.518
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
6.882
Eyeball Eddie
6
Knives Out
7.843
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
5.6
Crime Club
0
Sorry, Not Sorry
6
The Mimic
4.071
Stiletto
5.2
Kid Blue
6.9
The Immaculate Room
5.3
A Little White Lie
5.722
The Milagro Beanfield War
6.5
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
7.8
Dotty and Soul
3.4
Green and Gold
7.1
A True Character
0
Hero in the Family
6.125