M. Emmet Walsh
Acting
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).
As actor 222
Frasier
1993
The X-Files
1993
Adventure Time
2010
NYPD Blue
1993
Ironside
1967
Bonanza
1959
The Rockford Files
1974
Little House on the Prairie
1974
The Waltons
1972
Army Wives
2007
Damages
2007
Starsky & Hutch
1975
Home Improvement
1991
Sneaky Pete
2015
Empire
2015
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
Early Edition
1996
The Guardian
2001
Tales from the Crypt
1989
The Righteous Gemstones
2019
The Twilight Zone
1985
The Outer Limits
1995
Baretta
1975
Knives Out
2019
The Bob Newhart Show
1972
All in the Family
1971
The Hitchhiker
1983
Blade Runner
1982
Amazing Stories
1985
Pound Puppies
2010
What's New, Scooby-Doo?
2002
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Ed
2000
'Til Death
2006
The Iron Giant
1999
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
1999
McMillan & Wife
1971
American Gigolo
2022
Tracey Takes On...
1996
The Flash
1990
Romeo + Juliet
1996
A Time to Kill
1996
The Civil War
1990
Wild Wild West
1999
Big Stan
2007
My Best Friend's Wedding
1997
Baseball
1994
Night Visions
2001
Blood Simple
1985
Midnight Cowboy
1969
Nichols
1971
AfterMASH
1983
Raising Arizona
1987
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
2014
Racing Stripes
2005
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
1995
Ordinary People
1980
Serpico
1973
Christmas with the Kranks
2004
Arnie
1970
Critters
1986
Back to School
1986
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971
The Deliberate Stranger
1986
Brothers
2024
Missing in Action
1984
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012
Random Hearts
1999
Snow Dogs
2002
Red Scorpion
1988
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
East of Eden
1981
Straight Time
1978
Little Big Man
1970
Brubaker
1980
The French Atlantic Affair
1979
Brotherhood of the Rose
1989
Fletch
1985
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015
The Gambler
1974
No Man's Land
1987
Panther
1995
Wildcats
1986
The Glass Shield
1994
The West
1996
Calvary
2014
The Immaculate Room
2022
Slap Shot
1977
Raise the Titanic
1980
Narrow Margin
1990
Reds
1981
What's Up, Doc?
1972
Youth in Revolt
2009
Resting Place
1986
Camp Nowhere
1994
Twilight
1998
The Sandy Duncan Show
1972
Arthur Newman
2012
Airport '77
1977
White Sands
1992
The Best of Times
1986
The Jerk
1979
Mikey and Nicky
1976
Charlie Lawrence
2003
Silkwood
1983
The Mighty Quinn
1989
The Milagro Beanfield War
1988
Murder Ordained
1987
War Party
1988
Raising Buchanan
2019
Courage
1984
The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984
Clean and Sober
1988
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975
A Little White Lie
2023
Wild Card
1992
Relative Fear
1994
Faith, Hope & Love
2019
Retroactive
1997
The Deliberate Stranger
1986
Crime Club
1975
Cold Turkey
1971
Grandview, U.S.A.
1984
The Flash
1990
Sunset
1988
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
1991
They Might Be Giants
1971
Albino Alligator
1997
Nickelodeon
1976
Killer Image
1992
The Lottery
1996
Back Roads
1981
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007
Change in the Air
2018
Skag
1980
Wilder Napalm
1993
Unsub
1989
At Long Last Love
1975
Criminal Hearts
1996
Don McKay
2009
Silverfox
1991
Eyeball Eddie
2001
Poor White Trash
2000
Broken Vows
1987
The Mimic
2021
Boiling Pot
2015
Cannery Row
1982
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987
Chasing 3000
2010
Hellinger's Law
1981
Bound for Glory
1976
Me and Will
1999
Fast-Walking
1982
No Other Love
1979
Dead Badge
1995
Cops & Robbersons
1994
Hero in the Family
1986
City in Fear
1980
Kid Blue
1973
Green and Gold
2025
Shifting Gears
2018
The Escape Artist
1982
Equinox
1992
Outlaw Posse
2024
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
1979
Fourth Story
1991
Superdome
1978
Chairman of the Board
1998
Murder Ordained
1987
High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane
1980
The Outlaws
1984
The Gift
1979
The Traveling Executioner
1970
Alice's Restaurant
1969
The Naked Truth
1992
Greener Mountains
2005
Dotty and Soul
2023
Men in White
1998
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1995
The Music of Chance
1993
Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
1975
Love and Lies
1990
The Killing Jar
1997
Catch Me... If You Can
1989
Probable Cause
1994
Jack of Hearts
2000
Get to Know Your Rabbit
1972
Four Eyes and Six-Guns
1992
The Invasion of Johnson County
1976
Man in the Chair
2007
South of Bix
2019
Bitter Harvest
1993
Baggage
2003
Your Name Here
2008
Scandalous
1984
Toto
2018
A Question of Guilt
1978
Thunderground
1989
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2003
The Woman Who Willed a Miracle
1983
Erasable You
1998
Stiletto
1969
Chattahoochee
1990
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000
End of the Road
1970
The Assignment
2010
Portraits of a Killer
1996
Night Partners
1983
The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn
1985
Nightmare in Big Sky Country
1998
Haunted Echoes
2008
Monster!
1999
The Right of the People
1986
Christmas in the Clouds
2001
Dear Detective
1979
Red Alert
1977
Sorry, Not Sorry
2019
A True Character
2008
Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency
2011
Madness of Method
1994
Love Sick Love
2012