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M. Emmet Walsh

Highest Rated:
100% Straight Time (1978)
Lowest Rated:
5% Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
Birthday:
Mar 22, 1935
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
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…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 5% - 100%
Number of Movies: 122
Box Office Since 2001: $220.4M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2012 The Odd Life of Timothy Green
  • Actor
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2010 68% Youth in Revolt
  • Mr. Saunders
$15.2M
2009 40% Don McKay
  • Samuel
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2009 Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency
  • Chief Van Owen
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2008 Your Name Here
  • Actor
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2008 Haunted Echoes
  • Actor
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2008 Chasing 3000
  • Actor
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2008 11% Big Stan
  • Lew Popper
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2008 33% Sherman's Way
  • Hoyt
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2007 46% Man in the Chair
  • Mickey Hopkins
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2006 Greener Mountains
  • Actor
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2005 35% Racing Stripes
  • Woodzie
$49.2M
2004 5% Christmas with the Kranks
  • Walt Scheel
$73.7M
2003 Baggage
  • Actor
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2002 24% Snow Dogs
  • George
$81.1M
2001 69% Christmas in the Clouds
  • Stu O'Malley
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2000 56% Poor White Trash
  • Judge Pike
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2000 Eyeball Eddie
  • Actor
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1999 97% The Iron Giant
  • Earl Stutz
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1999 21% Wild Wild West
  • Coleman
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1998 Me and Will
  • Actor
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1998 Erasable You
  • Ralph Worth
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1998 13% Chairman of the Board
  • Freemont
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1998 Men in White (National Lampoon's Men in White)
  • Actor
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1998 59% Twilight
  • Lester Ivar
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1997 57% Retroactive
  • Sam
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1997 71% My Best Friend's Wedding
  • Joe O'Neal
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1997 The Killing Jar
  • Actor
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1996 44% Albino Alligator
  • Dino
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1996 67% A Time to Kill
  • Defense Psychologist
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1996 Portraits of a Killer
  • Actor
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1995 From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
  • Actor
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1995 Criminal Hearts
  • Actor
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1995 27% Panther
  • Dorsett
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1995 36% Free Willy 2 - The Adventure Home
  • Wilcox
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1994 10% Camp Nowhere
  • T.R. Polk
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1994 Relative Fear (The Child)
  • Earl
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1994 Broken Vows
  • Actor
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1994 62% The Glass Shield (The Johnny Johnson Trial)
  • Hal
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1994 Dead Badge
  • Actor
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1993 Four Eyes And Six Guns
  • Actor
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1993 Bitter Harvest
  • Sheriff Bob
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1993 25% Wilder Napalm
  • Fire Chief
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1993 100% The Music of Chance
  • Calvin Murks
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1993 33% Equinox
  • Pete Petosa
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1992 Killer Image
  • John Kane
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1992 The Naked Truth
  • Actor
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1992 43% White Sands
  • Bert Gibson
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1990 Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
  • Steve Bailey
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1990 Fourth Story, (Basic Deception)
  • Harry
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1990 The Flash
  • Henry Allen
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1990 58% Narrow Margin
  • Sgt. Dominick Benti
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1989 Thunderground
  • Actor
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1989 82% The Mighty Quinn
  • Miller
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1989 War Party (War Game)
  • Colin Detweiler
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1989 Catch Me If You Can
  • Johnny Phatmun
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1989 Brotherhood Of The Rose
  • Hardy
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1989 17% Chattahoochee
  • Morris
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1989 11% Red Scorpion
  • Dewey Ferguson
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1988 17% Sunset
  • Chief Dibner
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1988 59% The Milagro Beanfield War
  • The Governor
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1988 55% Clean and Sober
  • Richard Dirks
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1987 90% Raising Arizona
  • Machine Shop Earbender
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1987 Murder Ordained
  • Vern Humphrey
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1987 Broken Vows
  • Actor
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1987 44% Harry and the Hendersons
  • George Henderson Sr.
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1987 50% No Man's Land
  • Capt. Haun
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1986 13% Wildcats
  • Coes
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1986 The Deliberate Stranger
  • Detective Sam Davies
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1986 88% Back to School
  • Coach Turnbull
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1986 57% Critters
  • Harv
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1986 33% The Best of Times
  • Charlie
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1986 Resting Place
  • Sarge
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1986 Rich Hall's Vanishing America
  • Actor
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1985 75% Fletch
  • Dr. Dolan
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1984 95% Blood Simple
  • Visser
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1984 Courage (Raw Courage)
  • Col.Crouse
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1984 89% The Pope of Greenwich Village
  • Burns
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1984 23% Missing in Action
  • Tuck
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1984 Scandalous
  • Simon Reynolds
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1984 Grandview, U.S.A.
  • Mr. Clark
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1983 Night Partners
  • Actor
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1983 70% Silkwood
  • Walt Yarborough
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1983 Woman Who Willed a Miracle
  • Joe Lemke
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1982 Escape Artist
  • Fritz
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1982 92% Blade Runner
  • Harry Bryant
$1.2M
1982 Fast-Walking
  • Sgt. Sanger
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1982 67% Cannery Row
  • Mack
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1981 94% Reds
  • Speaker at the Liberal Club
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1981 50% Back Roads
  • Arthur
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1980 83% Brubaker
  • C.P. Woodward
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1980 High Noon: Part Two: The Return of Will Kane
  • Harold Patton
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1980 91% Ordinary People
  • Swim Coach
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1980 City in Fear
  • Sheldon Lewis
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1980 83% Slap Shot
  • Dickie Dunn
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1979 Tendre Poulet (Dear Detective) (Dear Inspector)
  • Actor
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1979 The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
  • Wally Cantrell
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1979 83% The Jerk
  • Madman
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1978 100% Straight Time
  • Earl Frank
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1978 A Question Of Guilt
  • Actor
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1977 Red Alert
  • Actor
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1976 40% Airport '77
  • Dr. Williams
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1976 88% Bound for Glory
  • Actor
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1976 Invasion of Johnson County
  • Actor
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1976 14% Nickelodeon
  • Logan
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1976 82% Mikey and Nicky
  • Bus Driver
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1975 10% At Long Last Love
  • Harold
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1974 86% The Gambler
  • Las Vegas Gambler
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1974 The Prisoner of Second Avenue
  • Actor
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1973 90% Serpico
  • Gallagher
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1973 Kid Blue
  • Barber
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1972 Get to Know Your Rabbit
  • Mr. Wendel
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1972 91% What's Up, Doc?
  • Arresting Officer
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1971 78% Escape from the Planet of the Apes
  • Aide
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1971 78% They Might Be Giants
  • 1st Sanitation Man
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1971 Cold Turkey
  • Art
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1970 96% Little Big Man
  • Shotgun Guard
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1970 End of the Road
  • Actor
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1969 Stiletto
  • Actor
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1969 67% Alice's Restaurant
  • Group W Sergeant
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1969 90% Midnight Cowboy
  • Actor
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Abduction
  • Actor
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Quotes from M. Emmet Walsh's Characters

    1. Visser: [laughing hysterically] Well, ma'am, if I see him, I' ll sure give him the message.
    From Blood Simple. Submitted by Abtin S (6 months ago)
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