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M. Emmet Walsh
Birthday: March 22, 1935

Birth Place: Ogdensburg, New York, USA
Height: 0' 0"

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Biography

Rarely garnering a lead role, M. Emmet Walsh has become one of the busiest character actors in Hollywood, using his ruddy, seedy appearance to embody countless low-life strangers with unsavory agendas. In his rare sympathetic roles, he's also capable of generating genuine pathos for the put upon plight of struggling small-timers. His effortless portrayals have made him a welcome addition to numerous ensembles, even if many viewers can't match a name to his recognizable mug. In fact, his work is so well thought of that critic Roger Ebert created the Stanton-Walsh Rule, which states that no film featuring either Walsh or Harry Dean Stanton can be altogether bad.Contrary to his frequent casting as a Southerner, Walsh is a native New Yorker, born on March 22, 1935, in Ogdensburg, NY. As a youth he attended the prestigious Tilton School in New Hampshire, and went on to share a college dorm room with actor William Devane. He graduated from the Clarkson University School of Business, but it was not until his thirties that he discovered his true calling: acting. He first popped up in Midnight Cowboy (1969), and has worked steadily ever since, some years appearing in as many as eight motion pictures, other years focusing more on TV movies. Working in relative anonymity through the '70s and early '80s, appearing in films ranging from Serpico (1973) to Slapshot (1977) to Blade Runner (1982), Walsh landed his meatiest and most memorable role in Joel and Ethan Coen's remarkable debut, Blood Simple (1984). Without batting an eye, Walsh exuded more casual menace as the amoral private detective doggedly pursuing his own self-interest than a host of typecast villains could muster in their entire careers. His role was key to creating a stylish noir that would launch the careers of two modern masters. It earned him an Independent Spirit Award.Blood Simple did not markedly alter Walsh's status as a supporting actor, as he went on to appear in this capacity in Fletch (1985), Back to School (1986), and Raising Arizona (1987), his next collaboration with the Coens, in which his bull-slinging machinist scores riotously with less than a minute of screen time. One of the first appearances of the kindly Walsh was in 1988's Clean and Sober, in which he plays a recovering alcoholic helping Michael Keaton through the same struggle.As he crept into his late fifties and early sixties, the stature of Walsh's films diminished a little, if not his actual workload. Continuing to dutifully pursue his craft throughout the early '90s, Walsh again returned to a higher profile with appearances in such films as A Time to Kill (1996), William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996), and My Best Friend's Wedding (1997). More as a reaction to the ineptitude of the movie than Walsh's performance, Ebert called into question his own Walsh-Stanton Rule in his review of Wild Wild West, the 1999 Will Smith-Kevin Kline debacle in which Walsh is one of the only tolerable elements.

Movie Credits
Big Stan (2007)
[ Rob Schneider ][ David Carradine ][ Bob Sapp ][ Henry Gibson ][ Kevin Gage ]
Roney's Point (2006)
[ Brian Thompson ]
Chasing 3000 (2006)
[ Ray Liotta ][ Rory Culkin ][ Trevor Morgan ][ Andrew Bryniarski ][ Seymour Cassel ]
Man in the Chair (2006)
[ Christopher Plummer ][ Robert Wagner ][ Michael Angarano ][ Mitch Pileggi ][ Tracey Walter ]
Racing Stripes (2005)
[ Dustin Hoffman ][ Joshua Jackson ][ Michael Clarke Duncan ][ Frankie Muniz ][ David Spade ]
Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
[ Dan Aykroyd ][ Tim Allen ][ Elvis Presley ][ Cheech Marin ][ Jake Busey ]
Greener Mountains (2004)
[ Curtis Armstrong ][ Kevin Durand ][ Phill Lewis ]
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales (2003)
[ Cheech Marin ][ Paul Dooley ][ Gary Anthony Williams ]
Baggage (2003)
[ Vincent Schiavelli ]
Snow Dogs (2002)
[ Cuba Gooding Jr. ][ James Belushi ][ Graham Greene ][ Brian Doyle-Murray ][ Christopher Judge ]
Christmas in the Clouds (2001)
[ Graham Greene ][ Wes Studi ]
Jack of Hearts (2000)
[ Ben Gazzara ][ Joe Penny ]
Poor White Trash (2000)
[ Jason London ][ William Devane ][ Patrick Renna ][ Tony Denman ]
Eyeball Eddie (2000)
[ Michael Rosenbaum ]
Me and Will (1999)
[ Keanu Reeves ][ Patrick Dempsey ][ Seymour Cassel ]
Random Hearts (1999)
[ Harrison Ford ][ Dennis Haysbert ][ Sydney Pollack ][ Dylan Baker ][ Peter Coyote ]
The Iron Giant (1999)
[ Vin Diesel ][ Christopher McDonald ][ Harry Connick Jr. ][ John Mahoney ][ Eli Marienthal ]
Wild Wild West (1999)
[ Will Smith ][ Eminem ][ Kevin Kline ][ Kenneth Branagh ][ Ted Levine ]
Monster! (1999)
Nightmare in Big Sky Country (1998)
Men in White (1998)
[ George Kennedy ][ Thomas F. Wilson ][ Barry Bostwick ][ Brion James ][ Carlos Bernard ]
Erasable You (1998)
[ James DuMont ][ Daryl Haney ]
Chairman of the Board (1998)
[ Jack Warden ][ Larry Miller ][ Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson ][ Jack Plotnick ][ Jack McGee ]
Twilight (1998)
[ Paul Newman ][ Gene Hackman ][ Liev Schreiber ][ James Garner ][ Clint Howard ]
My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
[ Paul Giamatti ][ Dermot Mulroney ][ Rupert Everett ][ Christopher Masterson ][ Harry Shearer ]
Retroactive (1997)
[ James Belushi ][ Frank Whaley ]
Portraits of a Killer (1996)
[ Michael Ironside ][ Costas Mandylor ]
The Killing Jar (1996)
[ Xander Berkeley ][ Wes Studi ][ Brion James ][ Carlos Bernard ][ Tom Bower ]
Madness of Method (1996)
[ Richard Kind ]
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
[ Leonardo Dicaprio ][ Paul Rudd ][ John Leguizamo ][ Jesse Bradford ][ Jamie Kennedy ]
The Lottery (1996)
[ Stephen Root ][ William Daniels ][ Dan Cortese ][ Sean Murray ]
Albino Alligator (1996)
[ Viggo Mortensen ][ Matt Dillon ][ Gary Sinise ][ William Fichtner ][ Skeet Ulrich ]
A Time to Kill (1996)
[ Kevin Spacey ][ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Matthew McConaughey ][ Kiefer Sutherland ][ Donald Sutherland ]
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995)
[ Michael Madsen ][ Richard Donner ][ Mykelti Williamson ][ Jon Tenney ][ Francis Capra ]
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1995)
[ Devon Gummersall ][ Ian Abercrombie ]
Panther (1995)
[ Chris Rock ][ Chris Tucker ][ Michael Wincott ][ James LeGros ][ Courtney B. Vance ]
Criminal Hearts (1995)
[ Will Ferrell ][ Kevin Dillon ][ Michael McDonald ]
Dead Badge (1995)
[ Danny Trejo ][ Yaphet Kotto ][ Leland Orser ][ Raymond Cruz ][ Brian Wimmer ]
The Colonel (1994)
Probable Cause (1994)
[ Michael Ironside ][ Craig T Nelson ][ Craig T. Nelson ]
The Glass Shield (1994)
[ Ice Cube ][ Michael Ironside ][ Elliott Gould ][ Bernie Casey ][ Gary Wood ]
Camp Nowhere (1994)
[ Christopher Lloyd ][ Allison Mack ][ Andrew Keegan ][ Jonathan Frakes ][ Jonathan Jackson ]
Cops and Robbersons (1994)
[ Chevy Chase ][ Jack Palance ][ Miko Hughes ][ David Barry Gray ]
Relative Fear (1994)
[ James Brolin ][ Kurt Wimmer ]
Wilder Napalm (1993)
[ Dennis Quaid ][ Jim Varney ][ Arliss Howard ]
The Music of Chance (1993)
[ James Spader ][ Chris Penn ][ Mandy Patinkin ][ Charles Durning ]
Bitter Harvest (1993)
[ Adam Baldwin ][ Stephen Baldwin ]
Four Eyes and Six-Guns (1992)
[ Jon Gries ][ Judge Reinhold ][ Fred Ward ][ Dan Hedaya ][ Austin Pendleton ]
Wild Card (1992)
[ Terry O'Quinn ][ Powers Boothe ][ Rene Auberjonois ]
Equinox (1992)
[ Matthew Modine ][ Tate Donovan ][ Fred Ward ][ Kevin J. O'Connor ]
White Sands (1992)
[ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Willem Dafoe ][ Mickey Rourke ][ Fred Dalton Thompson ][ Miguel Sandoval ]
Killer Image (1992)
[ Michael Ironside ]
The Naked Truth (1992)
[ Lou Ferrigno ][ Brian Thompson ][ Erik Estrada ][ John Vernon ][ Billy Barty ]
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1991)
[ Bruce Campbell ][ David Carradine ][ Maxwell Caulfield ][ Dabbs Greer ]
Fourth Story (1991)
[ Mark Harmon ][ Paul Gleason ]
Narrow Margin (1990)
[ Gene Hackman ][ J.T. Walsh ][ Harris Yulin ]
The Flash (1990)
[ Danny Elfman ][ Richard Belzer ][ John Wesley Shipp ][ Allen Payne ]
Love and Lies (1990)
[ Peter Gallagher ][ G.W. Bailey ]
Thunderground (1989)
[ Jesse Ventura ]
Catch Me If You Can (1989)
[ Geoffrey Lewis ]
Chattahoochee (1989)
[ Gary Oldman ][ Dennis Hopper ][ Ned Beatty ][ Matt Craven ]
The Mighty Quinn (1989)
[ Denzel Washington ][ Bob Dylan ][ James Fox ]
Brotherhood of the Rose (1989)
[ David Morse ][ Robert Mitchum ][ Peter Strauss ]
Red Scorpion (1989)
[ Dolph Lundgren ][ Brion James ][ Little Richard ]
War Party (1988)
[ Kevin Dillon ][ Bill McKinney ]
Clean and Sober (1988)
[ Morgan Freeman ][ Michael Keaton ][ Tate Donovan ][ Brian Benben ]
Sunset (1988)
[ Bruce Willis ][ Dermot Mulroney ][ Malcolm McDowell ][ James Garner ][ Blake Edwards ]
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
[ Christopher Walken ][ Daniel Stern ][ John Heard ][ James Gammon ]
No Man's Land (1987)
[ Brad Pitt ][ Charlie Sheen ][ Randy Quaid ][ D.B. Sweeney ][ Bill Duke ]
Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
[ Steven Spielberg ][ John Lithgow ][ Kevin Peter Hall ][ David Suchet ][ Don Ameche ]
Murder Ordained (1987)
[ John Goodman ][ Keith Carradine ][ Johnny Galecki ][ Terry Kinney ]
The Abduction of Kari Swenson (1987)
[ Joe Don Baker ][ Stephen Gyllenhaal ]
Raising Arizona (1987)
[ Nicolas Cage ][ Joel Coen ][ John Goodman ]
Broken Vows (1987)
[ Tommy Lee Jones ][ Tommy Lee ][ David Strathairn ][ David Groh ]
Wildcats (1986)
[ Wesley Snipes ][ Woody Harrelson ][ LL Cool J ][ Bruce McGill ][ Mykelti Williamson ]
The Best of Times (1986)
[ Robin Williams ][ Kurt Russell ][ Kirk Cameron ]
The Right of the People (1986)
[ Billy Dee Williams ][ Michael Ontkean ]
Vanishing America (1986)
Hero in the Family (1986)
[ Don S. Davis ]
Back to School (1986)
[ Robert Downey Jr. ][ Rodney Dangerfield ][ Ned Beatty ][ Burt Young ][ William Zabka ]
The Deliberate Stranger (1986)
[ Mark Harmon ][ Willie Garson ][ Frederic Forrest ][ John Ashton ]
Resting Place (1986)
[ Morgan Freeman ][ John Lithgow ]
Critters (1986)
[ Billy Zane ][ Scott Grimes ][ Ethan Phillips ][ Corey Burton ]
Fletch (1985)
[ Chevy Chase ][ Tim Matheson ][ James Avery ][ Joe Don Baker ][ George Wendt ]
Missing in Action (1984)
[ Chuck Norris ][ Aaron Norris ]
Blood Simple. (1984)
[ Joel Coen ][ Dan Hedaya ][ Xavier Cugat ]
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
[ John Cusack ][ Patrick Swayze ][ C. Thomas Howell ][ Michael Winslow ][ Troy Donahue ]
The Outlaws (1984)
[ Joe Mantegna ]
The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
[ Mickey Rourke ][ Frank Sinatra ][ Eric Roberts ][ Burt Young ][ Frank Vincent ]
Scandalous (1984)
[ John Gielgud ][ Robert Hays ]
Courage (1984)
[ William Russ ]
Silkwood (1983)
[ Kurt Russell ][ Craig T Nelson ][ Craig T. Nelson ][ David Strathairn ][ Will Patton ]
Night Partners (1983)
[ M.C. Gainey ][ Larry Linville ]
The Woman Who Willed a Miracle (1983)
[ Kirk Cameron ]
Blade Runner (1982)
[ Harrison Ford ][ Ridley Scott ][ Rutger Hauer ][ Edward James Olmos ][ Brion James ]
The Escape Artist (1982)
[ Francis Ford Coppola ][ Raul Julia ][ Desi Arnaz ]
Cannery Row (1982)
[ Nick Nolte ][ John Huston ]
Fast-Walking (1982)
[ James Woods ][ John Friedrich ]
Reds (1981)
[ Jack Nicholson ][ Gene Hackman ][ Warren Beatty ][ Paul Sorvino ][ John Ratzenberger ]
Back Roads (1981)
[ Tommy Lee Jones ][ Tommy Lee ][ John M Jackson ][ John M. Jackson ]
Hellinger's Law (1981)
[ Sean Penn ][ Telly Savalas ][ Rod Taylor ]
High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980)
[ David Carradine ][ Lee Majors ][ Pernell Roberts ][ Tracey Walter ]
Ordinary People (1980)
[ Donald Sutherland ][ Adam Baldwin ][ Timothy Hutton ][ Michael T Weiss ][ Michael T. Weiss ]
Raise the Titanic (1980)
[ Alec Guinness ][ Jason Robards ][ Richard Jordan ]
Brubaker (1980)
[ Morgan Freeman ][ Robert Redford ][ Wilford Brimley ][ Yaphet Kotto ][ Jonathan Gilbert ]
City in Fear (1980)
[ Mickey Rourke ][ William Daniels ][ Robert Vaughn ][ Lane Smith ][ Perry King ]
Skag (1980)
[ Peter Gallagher ][ Powers Boothe ][ Ernie Hudson ][ Karl Malden ][ Tony Burton ]
Dear Detective (1979)
[ Ron Silver ]
The Gift (1979)
[ Kevin Bacon ][ Glenn Ford ]
The Jerk (1979)
[ Steve Martin ][ Rob Reiner ][ Carl Reiner ][ Bill Macy ]
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
[ Harry Shearer ][ Jonathan Winters ]
No Other Love (1979)
[ Robert Loggia ][ Billy Drago ]
Straight Time (1978)
[ Dustin Hoffman ][ Gary Busey ][ Harry Dean Stanton ][ Jake Busey ][ Edward Bunker ]
A Question of Guilt (1978)
[ Ron Rifkin ][ Alex Rocco ]
Superdome (1978)
[ Tom Selleck ][ Van Johnson ][ Bubba Smith ]
Red Alert (1977)
[ William Devane ]
Airport '77 (1977)
[ Christopher Lee ][ James Stewart ][ Jack Lemmon ][ George Kennedy ][ Darren McGavin ]
Slap Shot (1977)
[ Paul Newman ][ Paul Dooley ][ Strother Martin ][ Michael Ontkean ][ Boy George ]
Vendetta (1976)
Mikey and Nicky (1976)
[ John Cassavetes ][ Ned Beatty ]
Nickelodeon (1976)
[ Burt Reynolds ][ John Ritter ][ Ryan O'Neal ][ Brian Keith ][ Brion James ]
Bound for Glory (1976)
[ Randy Quaid ][ David Carradine ][ Brion James ][ David R. Ellis ][ Tony Becker ]
The Invasion of Johnson County (1976)
[ Bill Bixby ][ John Hillerman ]
Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975)
[ Mark Hamill ][ William Daniels ][ Larry Hagman ][ Michael Lerner ][ Bill Thornbury ]
The Secret of Terry Lake (1975)
Crime Club (1975)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
[ Sylvester Stallone ][ Jack Lemmon ][ F. Murray Abraham ]
At Long Last Love (1975)
[ Burt Reynolds ][ John Hillerman ]
The Gambler (1974)
[ James Woods ][ James Caan ][ Paul Sorvino ][ Burt Young ][ Frank Sivero ]
Doctor Dan (1974)
[ Willie Aames ][ Jackie Cooper ]
Serpico (1973)
[ Al Pacino ][ F. Murray Abraham ][ Sidney Lumet ][ Judd Hirsch ][ Tracey Walter ]
Kid Blue (1973)
[ Dennis Hopper ][ Peter Boyle ][ Ben Johnson ][ Warren Oates ][ Howard Hesseman ]
Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)
[ Orson Welles ][ Brian De Palma ][ John Astin ]
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
[ Randy Quaid ][ Ryan O'Neal ][ Austin Pendleton ][ John Hillerman ][ Michael Murphy ]
Ketcham Power (1971)
Gulley vs. Hansen (1971)
They Might Be Giants (1971)
[ George C Scott ][ George C. Scott ][ F. Murray Abraham ][ James Tolkan ]
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
[ Roddy McDowall ][ Ricardo Montalban ][ Sal Mineo ]
Cold Turkey (1971)
[ Dick Van Dyke ][ Bob Newhart ][ Tom Poston ]
Little Big Man (1970)
[ Dustin Hoffman ][ Martin Balsam ][ Richard Mulligan ]
The Traveling Executioner (1970)
[ Bud Cort ][ Stacy Keach ]
End of the Road (1970)
[ James Earl Jones ][ Stacy Keach ][ Harris Yulin ]
Stiletto (1969)
[ Roy Scheider ][ Raul Julia ][ Charles Durning ][ James Tolkan ]
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
[ Dustin Hoffman ][ Jon Voight ][ Bob Balaban ]
Alice's Restaurant (1969)

Trivia

  • Attended Tilton School in Tilton, N.H.
  • Was roommates with actor William Devane in college.
  • Graduated from the Clarkson University School of Business.
  • Has been deaf in his left ear since age three
  • Keeps a home in rural West Swanton, Vermont.
  • Critic Roger Ebert so admires him that he created the "Stanton-Walsh Rule," which states that "no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad." Ebert later admitted this rule was broken by Wild Wild West (1999), in which Walsh appeared.
  • In Christmas with the Kranks (2004), he plays a neighbor of Tim Allen. He played Allen's father-in-law on "Home Improvement" (1991).
  • Appeared in the pilot episode of The Bob Newhart Show (1972)

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