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