RIP M. Emmet Walsh

[Frink]

What a career. He is a That Guy Hall of Famer. Love, love, love him in Blade Runner.

R.I.P. M. Emmet Walsh, character actor extraordinaire

Walsh, who appeared in Blade Runner, Knives Out, Blood Simple, and hundreds of other movies and shows, was 88

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[Ope3]

Dickie Dunn - I was trying to capture the spirit of the thing, Reg.

 

[coolhandgopher]

Nobody delivered the insult "milk faced bastard!" like him :

 

[Frink]

Nobody delivered the insult "milk faced bastard!" like him :

He hates these cans!

 

[Frink]

Was also reminded of Roger Ebert's Stanton/ Walsh rule.

"No movie with Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmett Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad."

 

[tikited]

Bummer. RIP.

 

[Spaulding!No!]

Christmas with the cranks.

 

[short ornery norwegian]

first of Walsh's roles that really caught my eye were Dickie Dunn in "Slap Shot," and then in '78, playing an A-hole Parole officer in the drama "Staight Time."

but when you look at the entire filmography, you realize how many good movies this guy turned up in.
Serpico - Ordinary People - Reds - Blade Runner - Silkwood - Blood Simple - The Pope of Greenwich Village - Back to School - Raising Arizona - Clean and Sober - etc.

and I had forgotten that he played Barry Allen's father in the 1990 TV series "The Flash."

 

[Ope3]

first of Walsh's roles that really caught my eye were Dickie Dunn in "Slap Shot," and then in '78, playing an A-hole Parole officer in the drama "Staight Time."

but when you look at the entire filmography, you realize how many good movies this guy turned up in.
Serpico - Ordinary People - Reds - Blade Runner - Silkwood - Blood Simple - The Pope of Greenwich Village - Back to School - Raising Arizona - Clean and Sober - etc.

and I had forgotten that he played Barry Allen's father in the 1990 TV series "The Flash."

Even recently he found a bit part in a really good movie, Knives Out.

In Back to School he played the diving coach to Rodney and his kid.