Walter Brooke
Birthday
1914/10/13
Day of death
1986/08/20 (71 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, U.S.
Also know as
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Biography
Walter Brooke (October 23, 1914 – August 20, 1986) was an American actor. Brooke is best known for playing Mr. McGuire in The Graduate, where he said his famous line, "Plastics". He is also remembered for playing district attorney Frank Scanlon in the television series The Green Hornet. Brooke appeared on stage in the 1957 production of Hide and Seek at the Shubert Theatre in Washington, D.C. Brooke died from emphysema on August 20, 1986, aged 71. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Brooke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
(1942) The Male Animal
as Reporter (uncredited)
(1955) Conquest of Space
as Gen. Samuel T. Merritt
(1971) The Return of Count Yorga
as Bill Nelson
(1973) Executive Action
as Smythe
(1967) The Graduate
as Mr. McGuire
(1975) Framed
as Sen. Tatum
(1949) C-Man
as Joe
(1970) The Landlord
as William Enders
(1974) The Green Hornet
as Dist. Atty Scanlon
(1970) Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Captain Theodore Wilkinson
(1970) Zig Zag
as Adam Mercer
(1969) Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
as Jerry Wolfe
(1979) North Dallas Forty
as Doctor
(1962) The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
as The Mayor (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
(1972) The Astronaut
as Tom Everett
(1958) The Party Crashers
as Mr. Webster
(1942) Desperate Journey
as Sgt. Warwick
(1942) Bullet Scars
as Trooper Walter Leary
(1968) How Sweet It Is!
as Haskell Wax
(1975) Stowaway to the Moon
as Whitehead
(1979) Visions of Christmas Past
as ---
(1971) Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
as Rector
(1961) Bloodlust!
as Dean Gerrard
(1976) Fury of the Dragon
as Frank P. Scanlon
(1977) Fun with Dick and Jane
as Mr. Weeks
(1974) Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
as ---
(1942) All Through the Night
as Reporter (uncredited)
(1981) Scruples
as Dr. Rutgers
(1979) In Search of Historic Jesus
as Joseph of Arimathea
(1970) San Francisco International
as Clifford Foster Evans
(1976) Time Travelers
as Dr. Stafford
(1980) Make Me an Offer
as Glenn Harris
(1981) Advice to the Lovelorn
as Walter Sheehan
(1979) Mirror, Mirror
as Dr. Samuel Shaw
(1976) The Big Bus
as Mr. Ames
(1980) The Nude Bomb
as American Ambassador
(1969) Marooned
as Network Commentator
(1942) Murder in the Big House
as Reporter (uncredited)
(1985) Beyond Reason
as Dr. Grovenor
(1968) Sergeant Ryker
as Col. Arthur Merriam
(1981) Separate Ways
as Lawrence Stevens
(1985) Jagged Edge
as Duane Bendix
(1941) They Died with Their Boots On
as Cadet Rosser (uncredited)
(1971) The Mephisto Waltz
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1974) Harrad Summer
as Sam Grove
(1979) Beggarman, Thief
as American Intelligence Agent
(1978) The New Adventures of Heidi
as Cousin Tobias
(1968) Yours, Mine and Ours
as Howard Beardsley
(1974) The Chadwick Family
as Dr. Simon
(1971) Lawman
as Luther Harris
(1974) Winter Kill
as Ben
(1971) A Tattered Web
as Lt. Preston
(1971) The Andromeda Strain
as Assistant to Cabinet Secretary (uncredited)
(1977) Black Sunday
as Fowler
(1942) In This Our Life
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
(1975) The Other Side of the Mountain
as Dean
(1977) The Pinballs
as Mr. Mason
(1974) The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
as Mr. Denver
(1976) St. Ives
as Mickey
(1983) White Water Rebels
as Leonard Phelps
(1976) Street Killing
as The Major
(1982) St. Elsewhere
as ---
(1981) Falcon Crest
as Carter St. John
(1972) M*A*S*H
as General Weiskopf
(1957) Trackdown
as ---
(1972) The Rookies
as ---
(1979) Mrs. Columbo
as ---
(1970) Arnie
as ---
(1977) The Incredible Hulk
as ---
(1963) The Great Adventure
as Taylor
(1983) The A-Team
as General Bullen
(1975) Starsky & Hutch
as ---
(1974) Little House on the Prairie
as ---
(1963) Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Col. Arthur Merriam
(1965) The F.B.I.
as Lucas Vale
(1964) The Munsters
as ---
(1981) Simon & Simon
as ---
(1968) Hawaii Five-O
as Samuel Hammock
(1976) Quincy, M.E.
as ---
(1979) Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
as U.S. President
(1972) The Streets of San Francisco
as ---
(1969) Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Dr. Roy Staples
(1971) Alias Smith and Jones
as ---
(1969) Room 222
as ---
(1976) Charlie's Angels
as Twilliger
(1967) Mannix
as ---
(1963) The Fugitive
as Jesse Platt
(1979) Knots Landing
as Henry
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Chad Cooper
(1973) Kojak
as Judge Lavery
(1979) Hart to Hart
as ---
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Capt. Nichols
(1957) Perry Mason
as District Attorney
(1982) Cagney & Lacey
as ---
(1948) Studio One
as Jeff
(1978) Dallas
as Cole Young
(1959) Hawaiian Eye
as ---
(1974) Run, Joe, Run
as ---
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Dr. Raymond Gordon
(1972) The Waltons
as Mr. Clarence Johnson
(1967) Ironside
as ---
(1963) The Fugitive
as Wilcox
(1963) The Greatest Show on Earth
as ---
(1961) Bus Stop
as ---
(1962) The Beachcomber
as Erickson
(1978) Vega$
as ---
(1965) Run for Your Life
as The Examiner
(1968) The Outcasts
as ---
(1963) The Fugitive
as Moderator
(1967) The High Chaparral
as Carney
(1975) S.W.A.T.
as ---
(1962) The Virginian
as Lt. Paul Kenner
(1968) Lancer
as ---
(1965) The Big Valley
as Dave Steigler
(1971) The Man and the City
as ---
(1958) Bronco
as ---
(1967) Judd for the Defense
as ---
(1958) The Donna Reed Show
as ---
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as ---
(1972) The Sixth Sense
as ---
(1963) Grindl
as ---
(1961) Ben Casey
as ---
(1966) The Rat Patrol
as Capt. Vulcan
(1963) Mr. Novak
as Jess Capper
(1959) New York Confidential
as ---
(1951) Tales of Tomorrow
as ---
(1974) The Cowboys
as Reager
(1981) Nero Wolfe
as ---
(1965) Paradise Bay
as ---
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as William Fredericks
(1975) Archer
as ---
(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Mr. Brown
(1968) The Outsider
as ---
(1966) The Green Hornet
as Frank P. Scanlon
(1975) Bronk
as ---
(1959) Bonanza
as Tobias Wentworth Finch
(1964) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Dan Case
(1973) The Magician
as Orin Connover
(1983) Automan
as Theodore Behrens
(1955) Cheyenne
as Edward DeVier
(1974) The Rockford Files
as Clyde Russell
(1959) Bonanza
as Atworth Perry
(1974) Petrocelli
as Arthur Martin
(1972) Banacek
as Walter Peterson
(1974) The Six Million Dollar Man
as General Harland Tate
(1974) The Six Million Dollar Man
as General Wiley
(1967) The High Chaparral
as Robert Morris
(1965) Run for Your Life
as Richard Phillips
(1965) Run for Your Life
as Ralph Phillips
(1957) Perry Mason
as Deputy D.A.
(1974) The Six Million Dollar Man
as Dr. Tellman
(1965) The Wild Wild West
as Prosecutor
(1963) Arrest and Trial
as Doc
(1974) The Rockford Files
as Mr. Gertmanian
(1974) The Rockford Files
as NIA Agent Bill Simonds
(1971) McMillan & Wife
as D. A. Chapman
(1971) Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Mr. Patrick
(1976) Quincy, M.E.
as Dr. Max Gilliam
(1972) Emergency!
as James Barnes
(1976) Charlie's Angels
as Mr. Kellerman
(1967) The Invaders
as Danvers
(1950) Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
as ---
(1971) McMillan & Wife
as Martin Sandowski
(1967) Dragnet
as Capt. Carl Fuller
(1972) The Streets of San Francisco
as John Wilcox
(1971) Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Dr. Yates
(1974) The Rockford Files
as Dr. Bosca
(1962) McHale's Navy
as Capt. Harper
(1967) The Danny Thomas Hour
as ---
(1967) Mannix
as Captain Wells
(1967) Mannix
as Mark Mitchell
(1977) Lou Grant
as Reggie Washburn
(1971) Bearcats!
as Fairfield
(1970) Dan August
as Earl Jackson
(1977) Big Hawaii
as Giles Webber
(1972) The Streets of San Francisco
as George Webster