M. 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 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).
223 acting credits
Acting · 223
The X-Files
1993
Frasier
1993
Bonanza
1959
Adventure Time
2010
Ironside
1967
Little House on the Prairie
1974
Home Improvement
1991
Empire
2015
The Guardian
2001
The Waltons
1972
The Rockford Files
1974
Army Wives
2007
NYPD Blue
1993
Damages
2007
The Twilight Zone
1985
Early Edition
1996
The Outer Limits
1995
Tales from the Crypt
1989
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
Starsky & Hutch
1975
All in the Family
1971
Amazing Stories
1985
Pound Puppies
2010
Baretta
1975
Sneaky Pete
2015
The Righteous Gemstones
2019
The Bob Newhart Show
1972
What's New, Scooby-Doo?
2002
Ed
2000
The Hitchhiker
1983
Knives Out
2019
The Flash
1990
Blade Runner
1982
McMillan & Wife
1971
Baseball
1994
'Til Death
2006
Nichols
1971
Tracey Takes On...
1996
The Civil War
1990
Romeo + Juliet
1996
Night Visions
2001
The Iron Giant
1999
A Time to Kill
1996
Big Stan
2007
American Gigolo
2022
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
The West
1996
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
1999
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
2014
Critters
1986
Midnight Cowboy
1969
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971
Arnie
1970
East of Eden
1981
Wild Wild West
1999
AfterMASH
1983
Racing Stripes
2005
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Brothers
2024
Serpico
1973
Raising Arizona
1987
The French Atlantic Affair
1979
My Best Friend's Wedding
1997
Airport '77
1977
Gibbsville
1976
The Jerk
1979
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015
Christmas with the Kranks
2004
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
1995
Ordinary People
1980
Slap Shot
1977
Snow Dogs
2002
Reds
1981
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012
Blood Simple
1985
Murder Ordained
1987
Fletch
1985
Missing in Action
1984
The Immaculate Room
2022
Silkwood
1983
Random Hearts
1999
Calvary
2014
The Sandy Duncan Show
1972
What's Up, Doc?
1972
Camp Nowhere
1994
No Man's Land
1987
Brubaker
1980
Youth in Revolt
2009
Raise the Titanic
1980
Narrow Margin
1990
The Flash
1990
Charlie Lawrence
2003
Red Scorpion
1988
Twilight
1998
Brotherhood of the Rose
1989
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975
Unsub
1989
Wildcats
1986
Back to School
1986
Catch Me... If You Can
1989
A Little White Lie
2023
White Sands
1992
The Escape Artist
1982
The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984
Little Big Man
1970
Straight Time
1978
Sunset
1988
Albino Alligator
1997
Mikey and Nicky
1976
Panther
1995
Arthur Newman
2012
The Deliberate Stranger
1986
The Gambler
1974
The Mighty Quinn
1989
Cops & Robbersons
1994
Clean and Sober
1988
They Might Be Giants
1971
The Milagro Beanfield War
1988
High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane
1980
Me and Will
1999
Grandview, U.S.A.
1984
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
1991
Outlaw Posse
2024
Bound for Glory
1976
Christmas in the Clouds
2001
Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
1975
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007
Faith, Hope & Love
2019
Kid Blue
1973
The Outlaws
1984
The Deliberate Stranger
1986
Chairman of the Board
1998
Equinox
1992
Retroactive
1997
Alice's Restaurant
1969
Nickelodeon
1976
The Best of Times
1986
Back Roads
1981
The Glass Shield
1994
Cannery Row
1982
Chasing 3000
2010
Resting Place
1986
Skag
1980
Relative Fear
1994
The Mimic
2021
The Lottery
1996
Chattahoochee
1990
Don McKay
2009
Broken Vows
1987
Red Alert
1977
Cold Turkey
1971
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1995
No Other Love
1979
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
1979
Bitter Harvest
1993
The Music of Chance
1993
At Long Last Love
1975
The Gift
1979
Stiletto
1969
End of the Road
1970
Probable Cause
1994
The Right of the People
1986
Poor White Trash
2000
City in Fear
1980
Your Name Here
2008
Superdome
1978
The Naked Truth
1992
Wilder Napalm
1993
The Invasion of Johnson County
1976
Hero in the Family
1986
Four Eyes and Six-Guns
1992
Fast-Walking
1982
Man in the Chair
2007
Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency
2011
The Killing Jar
1997
Shifting Gears
2018
Dotty and Soul
2023
Night Partners
1983
Hellinger's Law
1981
War Party
1988
Murder Ordained
1987
Change in the Air
2018
Monster!
1999
Green and Gold
2025
Erasable You
1998
The Traveling Executioner
1970
Fourth Story
1991
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987
Haunted Echoes
2008
Criminal Hearts
1996
The Woman Who Willed a Miracle
1983
Men in White
1998
Scandalous
1984
Get to Know Your Rabbit
1972
Wild Card
1992
Killer Image
1992
Portraits of a Killer
1996
Greener Mountains
2005
Dead Badge
1995
Thunderground
1989
Boiling Pot
2015
Jack of Hearts
2000
A Question of Guilt
1978
Silverfox
1991
The Assignment
2010
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2003
Raising Buchanan
2019
Courage
1984
Love and Lies
1990
Eyeball Eddie
2001
Nightmare in Big Sky Country
1998
Crime Club
1975
South of Bix
2019
Baggage
2003
Toto
2018
Dear Detective
1979
Sorry, Not Sorry
2019
Madness of Method
1994
The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn
1985
A True Character
2008
Love Sick Love
2012