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