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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 13, 1914
Died
August 20, 1986
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, U.S.
Walter Brooke
0.6 Popularity
Biography
Walter Brooke (October 23, 1914 – August 20, 1986) was an American actor. Brooke is best known for playing Mr. McGuire in The Graduate, where he said his famous line, "Plastics". He is also remembered for playing district attorney Frank Scanlon in the television series The Green Hornet. Brooke appeared on stage in the 1957 production of Hide and Seek at the Shubert Theatre in Washington, D.C. Brooke died from emphysema on August 20, 1986, aged 71. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Brooke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
Jagged Edge
as Duane Bendix
1985
6.3
Automan
as Theodore Behrens
1983
7.8
The A-Team
as General Bullen
1983
7.5
White Water Rebels
as Leonard Phelps
1983
0.0
St. Elsewhere
as Dr. Lunden
1982
5.6
Cagney & Lacey
as Judge
1982
7.0
Cassie & Co.
1982
4.5
Beyond Reason
as Dr. Grovenor
1982
0.0
Nero Wolfe
1981
7.4
Falcon Crest
as Carter St. John
1981
5.5
Advice to the Lovelorn
as Walter Sheehan
1981
5.0
Simon & Simon
1981
6.7
Scruples
as Dr. Rutgers
1981
0.0
Separate Ways
as Lawrence Stevens
1981
4.1
The Nude Bomb
as American Ambassador
1980
5.3
Make Me an Offer
as Glenn Harris
1980
3.3
Visions of Christmas Past
1979
0.0
Knots Landing
as Henry
1979
6.7
Beggarman, Thief
as American Intelligence Agent
1979
6.0
Mirror, Mirror
as Dr. Samuel Shaw
1979
0.0
Hart to Hart
1979
6.9
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
as U.S. President
1979
7.0
North Dallas Forty
as Doctor
1979
6.6
In Search of Historic Jesus
as Joseph of Arimathea
1979
4.3
Mrs. Columbo
1979
6.1
The New Adventures of Heidi
as Cousin Tobias
1978
4.0
Vega$
1978
7.0
Dallas
as Cole Young
1978
6.8
The Incredible Hulk
1977
7.2
The Pinballs
as Mr. Mason
1977
0.0
Big Hawaii
as Giles Webber
1977
5.0
Lou Grant
as Reggie Washburn
1977
7.3
Black Sunday
as Fowler
1977
6.7
Fun with Dick and Jane
as Mr. Weeks
1977
6.5
Fury of the Dragon
as Frank P. Scanlon
1976
5.2
Quincy, M.E.
1976
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
as Dr. Max Gilliam
1976
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
as Councilman Becker
1976
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
as Judd Kenyon
1976
7.5
Charlie's Angels
as Twilliger
1976
6.7
Charlie's Angels
as Mr. Kellerman
1976
6.7
Street Killing
as The Major
1976
0.0
The Big Bus
as Mr. Ames
1976
5.2
Time Travelers
as Dr. Stafford
1976
6.2
St. Ives
as Mickey
1976
5.6
The Other Side of the Mountain
as Dean
1975
6.3
Starsky & Hutch
1975
7.3
Framed
as Sen. Tatum
1975
6.6
Bronk
1975
6.2
S.W.A.T.
1975
7.0
🎬
Archer
1975
6.7
Stowaway to the Moon
as Whitehead
1975
5.8
The Rockford Files
as Clyde Russell
1974
7.6
The Rockford Files
as Mr. Gertmanian
1974
7.6
The Rockford Files
as NIA Agent Bill Simonds
1974
7.6
The Rockford Files
as Dr. Bosca
1974
7.6
Little House on the Prairie
1974
7.9
Petrocelli
as Arthur Martin
1974
7.2
Run, Joe, Run
1974
6.3
Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
as Michael Doran
1974
0.0
Harrad Summer
as Sam Grove
1974
0.0
The Chadwick Family
as Dr. Simon
1974
6.0
Winter Kill
as Ben
1974
7.2
The Green Hornet
as Dist. Atty Scanlon
1974
6.8
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
as Mr. Denver
1974
6.0
🎬
The Cowboys
as Reager
1974
5.0
The Six Million Dollar Man
as General Harland Tate
1974
7.3
The Six Million Dollar Man
as General Wiley
1974
7.3
The Six Million Dollar Man
as Dr. Tellman
1974
7.3
Executive Action
as Smythe
1973
6.4
Kojak
as Judge Lavery
1973
7.0
The Magician
as Orin Connover
1973
6.7
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.0
The Streets of San Francisco
as John Wilcox
1972
7.0
The Streets of San Francisco
as George Webster
1972
7.0
M*A*S*H
as General Weiskopf
1972
7.9
The Waltons
as Mr. Clarence Johnson
1972
7.2
Banacek
as Walter Peterson
1972
8.6
The Rookies
1972
6.8
Emergency!
as James Barnes
1972
7.8
The Sixth Sense
1972
5.9
The Astronaut
as Tom Everett
1972
5.7
McMillan & Wife
as D. A. Chapman
1971
6.9
McMillan & Wife
as Martin Sandowski
1971
6.9
A Tattered Web
as Lt. Preston
1971
5.0
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Mr. Patrick
1971
6.3
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Dr. Yates
1971
6.3
Bearcats!
as Fairfield
1971
6.2
🎬
The Man and the City
1971
5.0
The Return of Count Yorga
as Bill Nelson
1971
5.4
The Mephisto Waltz
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1971
5.9
The Andromeda Strain
as Assistant to Cabinet Secretary (uncredited)
1971
7.0
Lawman
as Luther Harris
1971
6.5
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
as Rector
1971
0.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.0
San Francisco International
as Clifford Foster Evans
1970
3.7
Dan August
as Earl Jackson
1970
6.8
Arnie
1970
3.0
The Landlord
as William Enders
1970
5.8
Zig Zag
as Adam Mercer
1970
7.5
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Captain Theodore Wilkinson
1970
7.1
Marooned
as Network Commentator
1969
5.9
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Dr. Roy Staples
1969
6.5
Room 222
1969
6.0
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
as Jerry Wolfe
1969
5.0
Lancer
1968
4.7
The Outcasts
1968
5.3
Hawaii Five-O
as Samuel Hammock
1968
7.1
The Outsider
1968
5.2
How Sweet It Is!
as Haskell Wax
1968
7.4
Yours, Mine and Ours
as Howard Beardsley
1968
6.9
Sergeant Ryker
as Col. Arthur Merriam
1968
6.0
The Graduate
as Mr. McGuire
1967
7.6
Mannix
1967
6.7
Mannix
as Captain Wells
1967
6.7
Mannix
as Mark Mitchell
1967
6.7
Mannix
as Bill Kraike
1967
6.7
The Danny Thomas Hour
1967
5.0
The High Chaparral
as Carney
1967
6.6
The High Chaparral
as Robert Morris
1967
6.6
Judd for the Defense
1967
7.5
Ironside
1967
6.8
Dragnet
as Capt. Carl Fuller
1967
6.9
The Invaders
as Danvers
1967
6.8
The Rat Patrol
as Capt. Vulcan
1966
7.2
The Green Hornet
as Frank P. Scanlon
1966
7.2
🎬
Paradise Bay
1965
0.0
The F.B.I.
as Lucas Vale
1965
5.4
The Wild Wild West
as Prosecutor
1965
7.6
The Big Valley
as Dave Steigler
1965
6.1
Run for Your Life
as The Examiner
1965
7.2
Run for Your Life
as Richard Phillips
1965
7.2
Run for Your Life
as Ralph Phillips
1965
7.2
The Munsters
1964
7.9
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Dan Case
1964
7.7
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Col. Arthur Merriam
1963
5.3
The Great Adventure
as Taylor
1963
0.0
Mr. Novak
as Jess Capper
1963
6.5
The Fugitive
as Jesse Platt
1963
7.2
The Fugitive
as Wilcox
1963
7.2
The Fugitive
as Moderator
1963
7.2
🎬
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
5.0
Arrest and Trial
as Doc
1963
7.7
🎬
Grindl
1963
5.5
McHale's Navy
as Capt. Harper
1962
6.6
The Virginian
as Lt. Paul Kenner
1962
6.4
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
as The Mayor (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
1962
5.8
🎬
The Beachcomber
as Erickson
1962
0.0
Ben Casey
1961
5.6
Bus Stop
1961
0.0
Dr. Kildare
as William Fredericks
1961
5.5
Bloodlust!
as Dean Gerrard
1961
4.3
Hawaiian Eye
1959
5.2
The Twilight Zone
as Chad Cooper
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
as Dr. Raymond Gordon
1959
8.5
Bonanza
as Tobias Wentworth Finch
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Atworth Perry
1959
7.5
New York Confidential
1959
0.0
The Donna Reed Show
1958
6.2
Bronco
1958
5.9
The Party Crashers
as Mr. Webster
1958
4.7
Trackdown
1957
6.4
Perry Mason
as District Attorney
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Deputy D.A.
1957
7.7
Cheyenne
as Edward DeVier
1955
6.0
Gunsmoke
as Capt. Nichols
1955
6.6
Conquest of Space
as Gen. Samuel T. Merritt
1955
5.5
Letter to Loretta
as Mr. Brown
1953
6.5
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
6.0
🎬
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
1950
0.0
Armstrong Circle Theatre
as Boland
1950
3.0
Armstrong Circle Theatre
1950
3.0
C-Man
as Joe
1949
5.2
Studio One
as Jeff
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Detective
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
Desperate Journey
as Sgt. Warwick
1942
6.0
In This Our Life
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
1942
6.8
Murder in the Big House
as Reporter (uncredited)
1942
6.5
The Male Animal
as Reporter (uncredited)
1942
3.9
Bullet Scars
as Trooper Walter Leary
1942
6.2
All Through the Night
as Reporter (uncredited)
1942
6.8
They Died with Their Boots On
as Cadet Rosser (uncredited)
1941
6.6