R.I.P. - M. Emmet Walsh

[rage-a-holic 4471]

Hell of a resume:

• Slap Shot
• The Jerk
• Brubaker
• Blade Runner
• Blood Simple
• Fletch
• Raising Arizona
• The Milagro Beanfield War
• Knives Out

And about 100 more

[Buzzrock 14941]

Not that mother scratcher!

RIP

[bluto 4942]

Die GAS PUMPERRRR

(that one quick scene of him running after Navin is burned into my mind, such greatness/cartoonishness)

[TheStoicPaisano 9939]

He say you braid runnah!

[4th&Five 41590]

Saw him on Broadway a few years ago in To Kill a Mockingbird. 

[atomheartbevo 89799]

He was great in A Few Good Men and Good Morning Vietnam.

[YGIFS 19452]

15 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

He was great in A Few Good Men and Good Morning Vietnam.

Whatever, Dick

[Deej 76920]

He'll always be Rodney Dangerfield's diving coach to me. 

[Stringer 1439]

He was great in A Few Good Men and Good Morning Vietnam.

A Time to Kill?

[cactusflinthead 27602]

Cannery Row

[Nivek 16986]

Red Scorpion

[Pato del Muerto 52600]

Ordinary people 

serpico

wildcats

 

are a few more that jump out on his filmography

Edited March 21 by Pato del Muerto

[Hook1997 5402]

One of the best character actors ever.  He really never stopped working for the last 50 years, has a credit for almost every year.  

Edited March 21 by Hook1997

[tx 3 putt 77426]

3 hours ago, Deej said:

He'll always be Rodney Dangerfield's diving coach to me. 

 

[DCA_HORN 725]

[Sweetnsourpoke 171]

He definitely captured the spirit of the thing. 

[Bama Llama 1450]

Blood Simple show stealer.  Right up there with Strother Martin in the annoyingly loquacious but very articulate  high, whiny Southern / Texas drawl voice type.

Nasty motherfucker driving an old yellow VW true beetle. I mean it was old in ‘85. He tried hard to murder Frances McDormand but she got him in the end. Coen casting was never better.

[mdleast 8307]

RIP. He witnessed Thornton Melon achieve sports greatness.

[RPM 26354]

3 hours ago, Bama Llama said:

Coen casting was never better.

Hudsucker Industries is a less interesting machine shop now.

[Lat22 4017]

He’s got a sandwich in one hand, and the fucking head in the other. 

[atomheartbevo 89799]

11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

He was great in A Few Good Men and Good Morning Vietnam.

Shit, I was thinking of Joe Walsh.  My apologies.  

[Beau Vine 54429]

Blood Simple is still my favorite Coen movie, and he owned it.

Edited March 22 by Beau Vine

[Horn80 6131]

Dickie Dunn

[RPM 26354]

22 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Shit, I was thinking of Joe Walsh.  My apologies.  

The smoker you drink, the player you get.

Edited March 21 by RPM

[Brandywine 1316]

The Best of Times with Kurt Russell and Robin Williams

[yoladu 4094]

RIP, Mother Scratcher

[Frank Drebin 5655]

Roger Ebert had the "Stanton-Walsh Rule," which states that "no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad."

[YGIFS 19452]

^

He was interviewed or maybe just wrote the article himself in Esquire after he got sick about certain character actors that just made him feel better when they appeared on camera.  He would make it a point later in this career not to know, given the internet, who was going to be in a film other than who could obviously see from the theater poster top of bill.  And he said something about them and one other guy whose name I can't remember.  But Yeah, Walsh was one of 'em and for me too.  If we're honest, most 'actors' are pretty people saying words set to running photography.  But if you think about it, most of Emmet's roles...he played it the exact same way most of the time.  But it worked in almost every single film/show for some strange reason.  There won't be many more like him, RIP...

[Eskimohorn 5642]

Moon River!