Birthday
1935/03/22
Day of death
2024/03/19 (89 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Ogdensburg, New York, USA
Also know as
Michael 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 Carl Reiner's comedy The Jerk (1979), Robert Redford's drama Ordinary People (1980), Ridley Scott's science fiction fil...Read more
(2019) South of Bix
as Grandpa
(1980) Brubaker
as C.P. Woodward
(1999) The Iron Giant
as Earl Stutz (voice)
(1986) Critters
as Harv
(1969) Alice's Restaurant
as Group W Sergeant
(1986) The Best of Times
as Charlie
(1989) The Mighty Quinn
as Fred Miller
(1979) The Jerk
as Madman
(1984) Blood Simple
as Loren Visser
(1977) Slap Shot
as Dickie Dunn
(1998) Chairman of the Board
as Freemont
(1978) Straight Time
as Earl Frank
(1990) Narrow Margin
as Sergeant Dominick Benti
(1999) Wild Wild West
as Coleman
(1971) Cold Turkey
as Art
(1980) Raise the Titanic
as Master Chief Vinnie Walker
(1984) The Pope of Greenwich Village
as Burns
(1982) Cannery Row
as Mack
(1997) My Best Friend's Wedding
as Joe O'Neal
(1987) Harry and the Hendersons
as George Henderson Sr.
(1998) Twilight
as Lester Ivar
(1985) Fletch
as Dr. Joseph Dolan
(1988) Red Scorpion
as Dewey Ferguson
(1983) Silkwood
as Walt Yarborough
(1997) Retroactive
as Sam
(2001) Christmas in the Clouds
as Stu O'Malley
(1987) No Man's Land
as Captain Haun
(2007) Big Stan
as Lew Popper
(1989) Catch Me If You Can
as Johnny Phatmun
(2004) Christmas with the Kranks
as Walt Scheel
(2009) Don McKay
as Samuel
(1984) The Outlaws
as Warden MacDonald
(1994) Cops & Robbersons
as Captain Ted Corbett (uncredited)
(2007) Man in the Chair
as Mickey Hopkins
(1984) Missing in Action
as Tuck
(1986) Back to School
as Coach Turnbull
(1981) Back Roads
as Arthur
(1974) The Gambler
as Las Vegas gambler
(1989) Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
as Mort
(2000) Poor White Trash
as Judge Pike
(1999) Me and Will
as Dean
(1982) Fast-Walking
as Sergeant Sanger
(1980) Ordinary People
as Swim Coach
(1993) The Music of Chance
as Calvin Murks
(1994) Camp Nowhere
as T.R. Polk
(2007) Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
as Self
(1981) Reds
as Speaker at Liberal Club
(1979) The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
as Wally Cantrell
(1992) White Sands
as Bert Gibson
(1992) Killer Image
as John Kane
Roney's Point
as Lance McKyle
(1975) The Prisoner of Second Avenue
as Doorman
(2012) The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Uncle Bub
(1988) War Party
as Colin Ditweiler
(1970) The Traveling Executioner
as Warden Brodski
(1986) The Deliberate Stranger
as Det. Sam Davies
(1984) Grandview, U.S.A.
as Mr. Clark
(1980) City in Fear
as Sheldon Lewis
(1989) Thunderground
as Wedge
(1999) Random Hearts
as Billy (uncredited)
(1995) From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
as Morris
(2011) Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency
as Chief Van Owen
(1980) High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane
as Harold Patton
(1977) Red Alert
as Sheriff Sweeney
(1978) A Question of Guilt
as Inspector McCartney
(2008) Your Name Here
as Kroger
(1984) Scandalous
as Simon Reynolds
(1987) Broken Vows
as Detective Mulligan
(1975) At Long Last Love
as Harold
(1976) Nickelodeon
as "Father" Logan
(2012) Love Sick Love
as Ed
(1999) Monster!
as Lloyd Reeves
(1980) Skag
as Moran
(1992) The Naked Truth
as Garcia / Gesundheim
(1993) Bitter Harvest
as Sheriff Bob
(1990) The Flash
as Henry Allen
(1987) Abduction
as Don Nichols
(2003) Baggage
as Sandy Westphall
(2008) Haunted Echoes
as Neil
(1995) Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
as Bill Wilcox
(2014) Calvary
as The Writer
(1994) Probable Cause
as Sadler
(2005) Racing Stripes
as Woodzie
(1992) Four Eyes and Six-Guns
as ---
(1971) They Might Be Giants
as 1st Sanitation Man
(2009) Youth in Revolt
as Mr. Saunders
(1976) Mikey and Nicky
as Bus Driver
(1975) Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
as Mr. Peterson
(1970) Little Big Man
as Shotgun Guard
(1978) Superdome
as Whitley
(1996) A Time to Kill
as Willard Tyrell Bass (uncredited)
(1977) Airport '77
as Dr. Williams
(2000) On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
as Self
(2002) Snow Dogs
as George
(1982) Blade Runner
as Bryant
(1995) Relative Fear
as Earl Ladelle
(1996) Criminal Hearts
as Martin
(1998) Nightmare in Big Sky Country
as Marshal Jim Phillips
(1971) Escape from the Planet of the Apes
as Aide
(2015) The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
as Gorak
(1997) Albino Alligator
as Dino
(1986) Resting Place
as Sarge
(2005) Greener Mountains
as Muggs
(1984) Courage
as Colonel Crouse
(1973) Serpico
as Gallagher
Madness of Method
as Rudolph Thorndyke
(2024) Outlaw Posse
as Catfish
(1991) Fourth Story
as Harry
(2010) The Assignment
as Mr. Beudreaux
(1987) Murder Ordained
as Vern Humphrey
(2015) Boiling Pot
as Dean Marison
(1990) Chattahoochee
as Morris
(1986) Wildcats
as Walt Coes
(2024) Brothers
as Judge Farful
(1995) Panther
as Dorsett
(1988) Sunset
as Chief Marvin Dibner
(1998) Erasable You
as Ralph Worth
(1994) The Glass Shield
as Det. Jesse Hall
(1972) What's Up, Doc?
as Arresting Officer
(1996) Portraits of a Killer
as Raymond Garrison
(1993) Wilder Napalm
as Fire Chief
(1998) Men in White
as Stanley
Silverfox
as Charles Blankenship
(1987) Raising Arizona
as Machine Shop Ear-Bender
(1982) The Escape Artist
as Fritz
(1972) Get to Know Your Rabbit
as Mr. Wendel
(1970) End of the Road
as Crab Man / Tutu Man
(2010) Chasing 3000
as Chuck Ireland
(1979) The Gift
as Legion Commander
(1969) Midnight Cowboy
as Bus Passenger (uncredited)
(1981) Hellinger's Law
as Mr. Graebner
(1992) Wild Card
as Mose
(1979) Dear Detective
as Capt. Gorcey
(2018) Change in the Air
as Walter Lemke
(1986) The Right of the People
as Sindaco
(1988) Clean and Sober
as Richard Dirks
(2018) Shifting Gears
as Hank
(1976) The Invasion of Johnson County
as Irvine
(1996) The Lottery
as Chief Davis
(2018) Toto
as Toto
(1997) The Killing Jar
as Sheriff Foley
(2019) Faith, Hope & Love
as Fr. John
(1976) Bound for Glory
as Husband
(2001) Eyeball Eddie
as Coach Cook
(2019) Knives Out
as Mr. Proofroc
(2019) Raising Buchanan
as Larry Kiesling
(1995) Dead Badge
as Sergeant Miller Hoskins
(1983) The Woman Who Willed a Miracle
as Joe Lemke
(1983) Night Partners
as Joe Kirby
(1990) Love and Lies
as Clyde Wilson
(1996) Romeo + Juliet
as Apothecary
(1992) Equinox
as Pete Petosa
(2000) Jack of Hearts
as Comissioner Menlo Boyce
(1979) No Other Love
as DeFranco
(2012) Arthur Newman
as Zazek
(1975) Crime Club
as Jack Doyle
(2019) Sorry, Not Sorry
as Harry's Father
(2021) The Mimic
as The Director
(1969) Stiletto
as Racing Partner (uncredited)
(2022) The Immaculate Room
as Kate's Father
(1973) Kid Blue
as Barber
(2023) A Little White Lie
as Arthur Baldwin
(1988) The Milagro Beanfield War
as Governor
(2003) Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
as Wally Westland
(2023) Dotty and Soul
as Harold Eichelbaum
(2024) Green and Gold
as Scotty
(1990) The Flash
as Henry Allen
(1970) Arnie
as ---
(1975) Starsky & Hutch
as Freddie
(1991) Home Improvement
as Colonel
(1974) Little House on the Prairie
as ---
(1996) Early Edition
as ---
(1985) The Twilight Zone
as Peter
(1971) All in the Family
as Billy Hartfield
(2000) Ed
as Mayor Wally Kendricks
(1989) Tales from the Crypt
as Jonas
(1972) The Bob Newhart Show
as Jack Hoover
(1996) Tracey Takes On...
as ---
(1975) Baretta
as ---
(1990) The Civil War
as Various
(1993) Frasier
as Rich Koechner
(1993) The X-Files
as Arthur Dales
(2001) Night Visions
as Gus
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Sarge
(1972) The Sandy Duncan Show
as ---
(1983) The Hitchhiker
as Detective Underhill
(1989) Unsub
as Ned Platt
(1995) The Outer Limits
as Sanford Vallé
(1999) The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
as Mack (voice)
(1998) The Wild Thornberrys
as Gemsbok #1 (voice)
(2015) Empire
as Harold Blakeley
(1985) Amazing Stories
as Grandpa
(2019) The Righteous Gemstones
as Roy Gemstone
(1971) McMillan & Wife
as Officer Ames
(1971) Nichols
as Gabe McCutcheon
(2010) Pound Puppies
as Olaf (voice)
(1979) The French Atlantic Affair
as Harry
(2003) Charlie Lawrence
as Cubby
(1989) Brotherhood of the Rose
as Hardy
(1959) Bonanza
as Mattheson
(1974) The Rockford Files
as Edgar Burch
(1994) Baseball
as Various (voice)
(1981) East of Eden
as Sheriff Horace Quinn
(1987) Murder Ordained
as Vern Humphrey
(2002) What's New, Scooby-Doo?
as Jeb (voice)
(2022) American Gigolo
as Coleman
(2007) Damages
as Lyle Hewes
(1996) The West
as Self (voice)
(1993) NYPD Blue
as Joe Kroft
(1975) Starsky & Hutch
as Lloyd Herman Eckworth
(1972) The Waltons
as David Fletcher
(1967) Ironside
as Telegraph Clerk
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as General Presser
(2014) Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
as Detective
(1983) AfterMASH
as Reverend Horn
(2010) Adventure Time
as Cosmic Owl
(2015) Sneaky Pete
as Tex Hopkins