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).
Filmography
The Sandy Duncan Show
1972 · 10.0
Nightmare in Big Sky Country
1998 · 10.0
Dear Detective
1979 · 10.0
The Woman Who Willed a Miracle
1983 · 9.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · 8.8
Hellinger's Law
1981 · 8.8
Adventure Time
2010 · 8.5
The X-Files
1993 · 8.4
Unsub
1989 · 8.3
Tracey Takes On...
1996 · 8.2
The Civil War
1990 · 8.0
Charlie Lawrence
2003 · 8.0
No Other Love
1979 · 8.0
Erasable You
1998 · 8.0
Baggage
2003 · 8.0
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · 8.0
Little House on the Prairie
1974 · 8.0
The Iron Giant
1999 · 8.0
Blade Runner
1982 · 7.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · 7.9
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2003 · 7.9
Knives Out
2019 · 7.8
What's New, Scooby-Doo?
2002 · 7.8
All in the Family
1971 · 7.8
Frasier
1993 · 7.7
The Outer Limits
1995 · 7.7
The Twilight Zone
1985 · 7.7
Ed
2000 · 7.7
The Rockford Files
1974 · 7.6
The Bob Newhart Show
1972 · 7.6
Baseball
1994 · 7.6
The Righteous Gemstones
2019 · 7.5
Bonanza
1959 · 7.5
Damages
2007 · 7.5
Army Wives
2007 · 7.5
Amazing Stories
1985 · 7.5
Midnight Cowboy
1969 · 7.5
Serpico
1973 · 7.5
Faith, Hope & Love
2019 · 7.5
Night Partners
1983 · 7.5
Sneaky Pete
2015 · 7.5
Ordinary People
1980 · 7.5
Little Big Man
1970 · 7.4
The Flash
1990 · 7.4
East of Eden
1981 · 7.4
What's Up, Doc?
1972 · 7.4
A Time to Kill
1996 · 7.4
Starsky & Hutch
1975 · 7.4
Early Edition
1996 · 7.4
Home Improvement
1991 · 7.4
Eyeball Eddie
2001 · 7.3
Blood Simple
1985 · 7.3
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
2014 · 7.2
The French Atlantic Affair
1979 · 7.2
Empire
2015 · 7.1
Brubaker
1980 · 7.1
NYPD Blue
1993 · 7.1
The Waltons
1972 · 7.1
Night Visions
2001 · 7.1
Straight Time
1978 · 7.1
Calvary
2014 · 7.1
Raising Arizona
1987 · 7.1
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012 · 7.0
The Guardian
2001 · 7.0
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
1999 · 7.0
Crime Club
1975 · 7.0
Kid Blue
1973 · 7.0
A Question of Guilt
1978 · 7.0
Madness of Method
1994 · 7.0
The Wild Thornberrys
1998 · 7.0
McMillan & Wife
1971 · 6.9
Silkwood
1983 · 6.9
Reds
1981 · 6.9
Bound for Glory
1976 · 6.9
Brotherhood of the Rose
1989 · 6.9
Mikey and Nicky
1976 · 6.9
They Might Be Giants
1971 · 6.9
Green and Gold
2025 · 6.9
The Jerk
1979 · 6.9
Ironside
1967 · 6.8
American Gigolo
2022 · 6.8
Dead Badge
1995 · 6.8
Hero in the Family
1986 · 6.8
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1995 · 6.8
Romeo + Juliet
1996 · 6.8
Slap Shot
1977 · 6.8
Fletch
1985 · 6.7
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975 · 6.7
The Gambler
1974 · 6.7
Big Stan
2007 · 6.7
The Milagro Beanfield War
1988 · 6.6
The Invasion of Johnson County
1976 · 6.6
My Best Friend's Wedding
1997 · 6.6
Baretta
1975 · 6.5
'Til Death
2006 · 6.5
Critters
1986 · 6.5
The Deliberate Stranger
1986 · 6.5
The Flash
1990 · 6.5
The Music of Chance
1993 · 6.5
Shifting Gears
2018 · 6.5
The Gift
1979 · 6.5
The Assignment
2010 · 6.5
Narrow Margin
1990 · 6.4
War Party
1988 · 6.4
The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984 · 6.4
Clean and Sober
1988 · 6.4
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971 · 6.4
Back to School
1986 · 6.4
Nichols
1971 · 6.3
Panther
1995 · 6.3
The Deliberate Stranger
1986 · 6.3
Resting Place
1986 · 6.3
Man in the Chair
2007 · 6.3
The Hitchhiker
1983 · 6.2
Wildcats
1986 · 6.2
Retroactive
1997 · 6.2
Cold Turkey
1971 · 6.2
Alice's Restaurant
1969 · 6.2
The Escape Artist
1982 · 6.2
Christmas in the Clouds
2001 · 6.2
Chasing 3000
2010 · 6.2
Christmas with the Kranks
2004 · 6.2
Harry and the Hendersons
1987 · 6.1
Youth in Revolt
2009 · 6.1
Twilight
1998 · 6.1
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
1991 · 6.1
The Mighty Quinn
1989 · 6.0
Racing Stripes
2005 · 6.0
Courage
1984 · 6.0
Wild Card
1992 · 6.0
No Man's Land
1987 · 6.0
Camp Nowhere
1994 · 6.0
Nickelodeon
1976 · 6.0
The Lottery
1996 · 6.0
Red Scorpion
1988 · 6.0
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
1995 · 5.9
Brothers
2024 · 5.9
White Sands
1992 · 5.9
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
1979 · 5.9
Cannery Row
1982 · 5.9
The Traveling Executioner
1970 · 5.9
Missing in Action
1984 · 5.9
Fast-Walking
1982 · 5.8
South of Bix
2019 · 5.8
Sunset
1988 · 5.7
Albino Alligator
1997 · 5.7
Change in the Air
2018 · 5.7
Grandview, U.S.A.
1984 · 5.7
Equinox
1992 · 5.7
Chattahoochee
1990 · 5.7
City in Fear
1980 · 5.7
Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
1975 · 5.7
The Right of the People
1986 · 5.7
Sorry, Not Sorry
2019 · 5.7
The Best of Times
1986 · 5.7
Arthur Newman
2012 · 5.6
Snow Dogs
2002 · 5.6
Random Hearts
1999 · 5.6
Airport '77
1977 · 5.6
Wilder Napalm
1993 · 5.6
Catch Me... If You Can
1989 · 5.6
A Little White Lie
2023 · 5.5
AfterMASH
1983 · 5.5
Love Sick Love
2012 · 5.5
Raising Buchanan
2019 · 5.4
Raise the Titanic
1980 · 5.4
Back Roads
1981 · 5.4
Me and Will
1999 · 5.4
Fourth Story
1991 · 5.4
Wild Wild West
1999 · 5.3
Pound Puppies
2010 · 5.3
Arnie
1970 · 5.3
Stiletto
1969 · 5.3
Red Alert
1977 · 5.3
The Immaculate Room
2022 · 5.2
Relative Fear
1994 · 5.2
The Glass Shield
1994 · 5.2
Cops & Robbersons
1994 · 5.2
Boiling Pot
2015 · 5.2
Greener Mountains
2005 · 5.2
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015 · 5.1
Murder Ordained
1987 · 5.1
At Long Last Love
1975 · 5.1
End of the Road
1970 · 5.1
Get to Know Your Rabbit
1972 · 5.0
Murder Ordained
1987 · 5.0
Monster!
1999 · 5.0
Don McKay
2009 · 4.9
Criminal Hearts
1996 · 4.8
Broken Vows
1987 · 4.8
Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency
2011 · 4.8
Outlaw Posse
2024 · 4.7
High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane
1980 · 4.7
Bitter Harvest
1993 · 4.7
Scandalous
1984 · 4.7
Poor White Trash
2000 · 4.6
Probable Cause
1994 · 4.6
Superdome
1978 · 4.5
The Killing Jar
1997 · 4.4
Killer Image
1992 · 4.3
The Mimic
2021 · 4.3
Haunted Echoes
2008 · 4.2
Thunderground
1989 · 4.2
Dotty and Soul
2023 · 4.0
Men in White
1998 · 3.8
Chairman of the Board
1998 · 3.6
Four Eyes and Six-Guns
1992 · 3.5
Your Name Here
2008 · 3.5
The Naked Truth
1992 · 3.2
Jack of Hearts
2000 · 2.9
Silverfox
1991 · 0.0
Toto
2018 · 0.0
The Outlaws
1984 · 0.0
Love and Lies
1990 · 0.0
The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn
1985 · 0.0