
Acting
M. Emmet Walsh
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).
Movies with M. Emmet Walsh

Blade Runner
1982

Knives Out
2019

A Time to Kill
1996

The Iron Giant
1999

Big Stan
2007

Romeo + Juliet
1996

Racing Stripes
2005

Wild Wild West
1999

Midnight Cowboy
1969

Christmas with the Kranks
2004

Slap Shot
1977

Ordinary People
1980

Harry and the Hendersons
1987

Raising Arizona
1987

Critters
1986

Grandview, U.S.A.
1984

Blood Simple
1985

Serpico
1973

The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015

Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971

My Best Friend's Wedding
1997

Brubaker
1980

Random Hearts
1999

Little Big Man
1970

The Jerk
1979

Missing in Action
1984

Panther
1995

Brothers
2024

Back to School
1986

Snow Dogs
2002

The Flash
1990

What's Up, Doc?
1972

Resting Place
1986

Airport '77
1977

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
1995

The Immaculate Room
2022

The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012

Straight Time
1978

Red Scorpion
1988

Fletch
1985

Youth in Revolt
2009

No Man's Land
1987

Wild Card
1992

Silkwood
1983

Camp Nowhere
1994

Reds
1981

Raise the Titanic
1980

Calvary
2014

Albino Alligator
1997

Narrow Margin
1990

Mikey and Nicky
1976

Twilight
1998

Arthur Newman
2012

War Party
1988

Wildcats
1986

Skag
1980

Relative Fear
1994

The Glass Shield
1994

Dotty and Soul
2023

The Mighty Quinn
1989

Green and Gold
2025

The Gambler
1974

White Sands
1992

Raising Buchanan
2019

The Deliberate Stranger
1986

Bound for Glory
1976

Clean and Sober
1988

Don McKay
2009

Eyeball Eddie
2001

The Best of Times
1986

Back Roads
1981

The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984

Jack of Hearts
2000

The Milagro Beanfield War
1988

Nickelodeon
1976

Fast-Walking
1982

Cops & Robbersons
1994

Outlaw Posse
2024

Cannery Row
1982

At Long Last Love
1975

The Lottery
1996

Crime Club
1975

Dead Badge
1995

The Escape Artist
1982

Man in the Chair
2007

The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975

Faith, Hope & Love
2019

They Might Be Giants
1971

Hero in the Family
1986

Sunset
1988

Men in White
1998

Poor White Trash
2000

Murder Ordained
1987

Cold Turkey
1971

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
1991

Bitter Harvest
1993

Kid Blue
1973

Wilder Napalm
1993

A Little White Lie
2023

The Killing Jar
1997

Shifting Gears
2018

No Other Love
1979

The Naked Truth
1992

Retroactive
1997

Me and Will
1999

Alice's Restaurant
1969

The Mimic
2021

Christmas in the Clouds
2001

Broken Vows
1987

Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2003

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
1979

The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987

Catch Me... If You Can
1989

City in Fear
1980

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007

The Assignment
2010

Haunted Echoes
2008

South of Bix
2019

Love and Lies
1990

End of the Road
1970

Fourth Story
1991

Chasing 3000
2010

The Gift
1979

Criminal Hearts
1996

Change in the Air
2018

Killer Image
1992

The Music of Chance
1993

Chairman of the Board
1998

Probable Cause
1994

The Outlaws
1984

Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
1975

Hellinger's Law
1981

Your Name Here
2008

Boiling Pot
2015

Get to Know Your Rabbit
1972

Sorry, Not Sorry
2019

Night Partners
1983
Erasable You
1998

Stiletto
1969

Chattahoochee
1990

Red Alert
1977

Four Eyes and Six-Guns
1992

Equinox
1992
Silverfox
1991

The Right of the People
1986

The Traveling Executioner
1970

Scandalous
1984

Dear Detective
1979

Monster!
1999

High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane
1980

Greener Mountains
2005

The Woman Who Willed a Miracle
1983

Portraits of a Killer
1996

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000

Courage
1984

Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency
2011

Superdome
1978

A Question of Guilt
1978

The Invasion of Johnson County
1976

The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn
1985

Baggage
2003
A True Character
2008

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1995

Thunderground
1989
Madness of Method
1994

Toto
2018

Nightmare in Big Sky Country
1998

Love Sick Love
2012
TV Shows with M. Emmet Walsh

The X-Files
1993

Adventure Time
2010

Frasier
1993

NYPD Blue
1993

Bonanza
1959

The Waltons
1972

Little House on the Prairie
1974

Ironside
1967

Empire
2015

Damages
2007

Home Improvement
1991

The Guardian
2001

The Rockford Files
1974

The Righteous Gemstones
2019

The Twilight Zone
1985

Tales from the Crypt
1989

Sneaky Pete
2015

Army Wives
2007

The Wild Thornberrys
1998

The Outer Limits
1995

Baretta
1975

The Hitchhiker
1983

Starsky & Hutch
1975

Amazing Stories
1985

What's New, Scooby-Doo?
2002

Early Edition
1996

Pound Puppies
2010

All in the Family
1971

The Bob Newhart Show
1972

McMillan & Wife
1971

The Flash
1990

Ed
2000

Nichols
1971

'Til Death
2006

Baseball
1994

Night Visions
2001

Tracey Takes On...
1996

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954

AfterMASH
1983

The Civil War
1990

Arnie
1970

Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
2014

American Gigolo
2022

The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
1999

East of Eden
1981

The French Atlantic Affair
1979

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

The West
1996

Gibbsville
1976

The Deliberate Stranger
1986
The Sandy Duncan Show
1972

Brotherhood of the Rose
1989

Murder Ordained
1987

Unsub
1989
Charlie Lawrence
2003