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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 22, 1935
Died
March 19, 2024
Place of Birth
Ogdensburg, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Michael Emmet Walsh
- امت والش
M. Emmet Walsh
2.1 Popularity
Biography
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 The Jerk (1979), Ordinary People (1980), Blade Runner (1982), Wild Wild West (1999), and The Iron Giant (1999). His final films included Knives Out (2019) and Brothers (2024).
Known For
7.1
Scotty
Green and Gold
2025
5.9
Judge Farful
Brothers
2024
4.5
Catfish
Outlaw Posse
2024
3.7
Harold Eichelbaum
Dotty and Soul
2023
5.6
Arthur Baldwin
A Little White Lie
2023
6.7
Coleman
American Gigolo
2022
5.3
Kate's Father
The Immaculate Room
2022
4.1
The Director
The Mimic
2021
7.8
Mr. Proofroc
Knives Out
2019
7.4
Roy Gemstone
The Righteous Gemstones
2019
Credits
Green and Gold
as Scotty
2025
7.1
Brothers
as Judge Farful
2024
5.9
Outlaw Posse
as Catfish
2024
4.5
Dotty and Soul
as Harold Eichelbaum
2023
3.7
A Little White Lie
as Arthur Baldwin
2023
5.6
American Gigolo
as Coleman
2022
6.7
The Immaculate Room
as Kate's Father
2022
5.3
The Mimic
as The Director
2021
4.1
Knives Out
as Mr. Proofroc
2019
7.8
The Righteous Gemstones
as Roy Gemstone
2019
7.4
South of Bix
as Grandpa
2019
0.0
Raising Buchanan
as Larry Kiesling
2019
5.7
Faith, Hope & Love
as Fr. John
2019
7.5
Sorry, Not Sorry
as Harry's Father
2019
6.0
Change in the Air
as Walter Lemke
2018
5.7
Toto
as Toto
2018
0.0
Shifting Gears
as Hank
2018
6.5
Boiling Pot
as Dean Marison
2015
5.2
Sneaky Pete
as Tex Hopkins
2015
7.5
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
as Gorak
2015
5.2
Empire
as Harold Blakeley
2015
7.1
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
as Detective
2014
7.4
Calvary
as The Writer
2014
7.1
Love Sick Love
as Ed
2012
5.5
Arthur Newman
as Zazek
2012
5.6
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Uncle Bub
2012
7.0
Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency
as Chief Van Owen
2011
4.8
Pound Puppies
as Olaf (voice)
2010
5.2
Chasing 3000
as Chuck Ireland
2010
6.0
The Assignment
as Mr. Beudreaux
2010
6.5
Adventure Time
as Cosmic Owl
2010
8.5
Youth in Revolt
as Mr. Saunders
2009
6.2
Don McKay
as Samuel
2009
4.9
Haunted Echoes
as Neil
2008
4.2
Your Name Here
as Kroger
2008
3.3
🎬
A True Character
as Self
2008
0.0
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
as Self
2007
7.9
Big Stan
as Lew Popper
2007
6.6
Damages
as Lyle Hewes
2007
7.4
Army Wives
as Bernie Wallacheck
2007
7.5
Man in the Chair
as Mickey Hopkins
2007
6.4
'Til Death
as Uncle Rudolph
2006
6.4
Greener Mountains
as Muggs
2005
4.9
Racing Stripes
as Woodzie
2005
5.9
Christmas with the Kranks
as Walt Scheel
2004
6.2
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
as Wally Westland
2003
7.2
🎬
Charlie Lawrence
as Cubby
2003
7.0
Baggage
as Sandy Westphall
2003
0.0
What's New, Scooby-Doo?
as Jeb (voice)
2002
7.9
Snow Dogs
as George
2002
5.6
The Guardian
as Ezra Pence
2001
6.9
Night Visions
as Gus (segment "Reunion")
2001
7.2
Eyeball Eddie
as Coach Cook
2001
6.0
Christmas in the Clouds
as Stu O'Malley
2001
6.1
Poor White Trash
as Judge Pike
2000
4.3
Jack of Hearts
as Comissioner Menlo Boyce
2000
1.5
Ed
as Mayor Wally Kendricks
2000
7.7
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
as Self
2000
7.5
Random Hearts
as Billy (uncredited)
1999
5.6
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
as Mack (voice)
1999
7.2
Monster!
as Lloyd Reeves
1999
4.7
The Iron Giant
as Earl Stutz (voice)
1999
8.0
Me and Will
as Dean
1999
5.2
Wild Wild West
as Coleman
1999
5.3
The Wild Thornberrys
as Gemsbok #1 (voice)
1998
7.0
Nightmare in Big Sky Country
as Marshal Jim Phillips
1998
0.0
Men in White
as Stanley
1998
3.4
🎬
Erasable You
as Ralph Worth
1998
0.0
Chairman of the Board
as Freemont
1998
3.6
Twilight
as Lester Ivar
1998
6.1
My Best Friend's Wedding
as Joe O'Neal
1997
6.6
The Killing Jar
as Sheriff Foley
1997
4.0
Retroactive
as Sam
1997
6.1
Albino Alligator
as Dino
1997
5.7
Romeo + Juliet
as Apothecary
1996
6.8
The Lottery
as Chief Davis
1996
5.3
Early Edition
as Santa
1996
7.3
The West
as Self (voice)
1996
8.4
A Time to Kill
as Willard Tyrell Bass (uncredited)
1996
7.4
Portraits of a Killer
as Raymond Garrison
1996
3.2
Criminal Hearts
as Martin
1996
4.5
Tracey Takes On...
1996
8.5
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
as Bill Wilcox
1995
5.9
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
as Morris
1995
6.3
Panther
as Dorsett
1995
6.2
Dead Badge
as Sergeant Miller Hoskins
1995
6.8
The Outer Limits
as Sanford Vallé
1995
7.7
Relative Fear
as Earl Ladelle
1994
4.6
Probable Cause
as Sadler
1994
4.3
Baseball
as (voice)
1994
7.4
The Glass Shield
as Det. Jesse Hall
1994
5.0
Camp Nowhere
as T.R. Polk
1994
5.9
Cops & Robbersons
as Captain Ted Corbett (uncredited)
1994
5.1
🎬
Madness of Method
as Rudolph Thorndyke
1994
0.0
Bitter Harvest
as Sheriff Bob
1993
4.6
NYPD Blue
as Joe Kroft
1993
7.0
Frasier
as Rich Koechner
1993
7.7
The X-Files
as Arthur Dales
1993
8.4
Wilder Napalm
as Fire Chief
1993
5.5
The Music of Chance
as Calvin Murks
1993
6.5
Four Eyes and Six-Guns
as Mayor Thornbush
1992
2.0
The Naked Truth
as Garcia / Gesundheim
1992
2.4
Equinox
as Pete Petosa
1992
5.6
Wild Card
as Mose
1992
4.0
White Sands
as Bert Gibson
1992
5.9
Killer Image
as John Kane
1992
3.9
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
as Mort
1991
6.0
Home Improvement
as Colonel
1991
7.4
🎬
Silverfox
as Charles Blankenship
1991
0.0
Fourth Story
as Harry
1991
5.0
The Flash
as Henry Allen
1990
0.0
The Flash
as Henry Allen
1990
6.5
The Civil War
as Various
1990
7.9
Narrow Margin
as Sergeant Dominick Benti
1990
6.4
The Flash
as Henry Allen
1990
7.4
Chattahoochee
as Morris
1990
5.6
Love and Lies
as Clyde Wilson
1990
0.0
Catch Me... If You Can
as Johnny Phatmun
1989
5.2
Thunderground
as Wedge
1989
2.3
Tales from the Crypt
as Jonas
1989
8.0
The Mighty Quinn
as Fred Miller
1989
6.0
Unsub
as Ned Platt
1989
7.5
Brotherhood of the Rose
as Hardy
1989
6.7
Red Scorpion
as Dewey Ferguson
1988
6.0
War Party
as Colin Ditweiler
1988
6.2
Clean and Sober
as Richard Dirks
1988
6.3
Sunset
as Chief Marvin Dibner
1988
5.7
The Milagro Beanfield War
as Governor
1988
6.5
No Man's Land
as Captain Haun
1987
5.9
Harry and the Hendersons
as George Henderson Sr.
1987
6.1
Murder Ordained
as Vern Humphrey
1987
5.0
Murder Ordained
as Vern Humphrey
1987
4.9
Raising Arizona
as Machine Shop Ear-Bender
1987
7.1
Abduction
as Don Nichols
1987
5.5
Broken Vows
as Detective Mulligan
1987
4.7
Hero in the Family
as General Presser
1986
6.1
Back to School
as Coach Turnbull
1986
6.3
The Deliberate Stranger
as Det. Sam Davies
1986
6.2
The Deliberate Stranger
as Det. Sam Davies
1986
0.0
Resting Place
as Sarge
1986
6.1
Critters
as Harv
1986
6.5
Wildcats
as Walt Coes
1986
6.3
The Best of Times
as Charlie
1986
5.6
The Right of the People
as Sindaco
1986
4.0
Amazing Stories
as Grandpa
1985
7.4
The Twilight Zone
as Peter (segment "Dealer's Choice")
1985
7.8
The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn
as Rocco
1985
0.0
Fletch
as Dr. Joseph Dolan
1985
6.7
Blood Simple
as Private Detective
1985
7.3
Courage
as Colonel Crouse
1984
5.4
Missing in Action
as Tuck
1984
5.8
Grandview, U.S.A.
as Mr. Clark
1984
5.7
The Outlaws
as Warden MacDonald
1984
0.0
The Pope of Greenwich Village
as Burns
1984
6.4
Scandalous
as Simon Reynolds
1984
2.5
Silkwood
as Walt Yarborough
1983
6.9
The Hitchhiker
as Detective Underhill
1983
6.1
Night Partners
as Joe Kirby
1983
7.0
AfterMASH
as Reverend Horn
1983
5.1
The Woman Who Willed a Miracle
as Joe Lemke
1983
10.0
Blade Runner
as Bryant
1982
7.9
The Escape Artist
as Fritz
1982
6.2
Fast-Walking
as Sergeant Sanger
1982
5.7
Cannery Row
as Mack
1982
5.8
Reds
as Speaker at Liberal Club
1981
6.9
Back Roads
as Arthur
1981
5.3
Hellinger's Law
as Mr. Graebner
1981
7.5
East of Eden
as Sheriff Horace Quinn
1981
7.3
High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane
as Harold Patton
1980
4.2
Ordinary People
as Swim Coach
1980
7.5
Raise the Titanic
as Master Chief Vinnie Walker
1980
5.3
Brubaker
as C.P. Woodward
1980
7.1
City in Fear
as Sheldon Lewis
1980
5.1
Skag
as Moran
1980
0.0
The Gift
as Legion Commander
1979
0.0
The Jerk
as Madman
1979
6.9
The French Atlantic Affair
as Harry
1979
7.0
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
as Wally Cantrell
1979
5.6
Dear Detective
as Capt. Gorcey
1979
0.0
No Other Love
as DeFranco
1979
7.0
Straight Time
as Earl Frank
1978
7.1
A Question of Guilt
as Inspector McCartney
1978
6.2
Superdome
as Whitley
1978
4.4
Red Alert
as Sheriff Sweeney
1977
4.0
Airport '77
as Dr. Williams
1977
5.6
Slap Shot
as Dickie Dunn
1977
6.8
Mikey and Nicky
as Bus Driver
1976
6.8
Nickelodeon
as "Father" Logan
1976
6.1
Bound for Glory
as Husband
1976
6.9
Gibbsville
as Yostie
1976
0.0
The Invasion of Johnson County
as Irvine
1976
6.5
Starsky & Hutch
as Freddie
1975
7.3
Starsky & Hutch
as Lloyd Herman Eckworth
1975
7.3
Crime Club
as Jack Doyle
1975
0.0
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
as Doorman
1975
6.7
At Long Last Love
as Harold
1975
5.1
Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
as Mr. Peterson
1975
5.3
Baretta
1975
6.4
The Gambler
as Las Vegas Gambler
1974
6.7
The Rockford Files
as Edgar Burch
1974
7.6
Little House on the Prairie
as Callahan
1974
7.9
Serpico
as Gallagher
1973
7.5
Kid Blue
as Barber
1973
6.9
🎬
The Sandy Duncan Show
1972
0.0
The Bob Newhart Show
as Jack Hoover
1972
7.5
The Waltons
as David Fletcher
1972
7.2
Get to Know Your Rabbit
as Mr. Wendel
1972
4.9
What's Up, Doc?
as Arresting Officer
1972
7.4
McMillan & Wife
as Officer Ames
1971
6.9
Nichols
as Gabe McCutcheon
1971
5.0
They Might Be Giants
as 1st Sanitation Man
1971
7.0
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
as Aide
1971
6.4
Cold Turkey
as Art
1971
6.2
All in the Family
as Billy Hartfield
1971
7.8
Little Big Man
as Shotgun Guard
1970
7.5
The Traveling Executioner
as Warden Brodski
1970
5.5
Arnie
1970
3.0
End of the Road
as Crab Man / Tutu Man
1970
4.6
Alice's Restaurant
as Group W Sergeant
1969
6.3
Stiletto
as Racing Partner (uncredited)
1969
5.0
Midnight Cowboy
as Bus Passenger (uncredited)
1969
7.5
Ironside
as Telegraph Clerk
1967
6.8
Bonanza
as Mattheson
1959
7.5
The Wonderful World of Disney
as General Presser
1954
7.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Sarge
1951
8.6