M. Emmet Walsh
Michael Emmet Walsh was an American actor who appeared in over 200 films and television series, including supporting roles as Earl Frank in Straight Time (1978), the Madman in The Jerk (1979), Captain Bryant in Blade Runner (1982), Harv in Critters (1986), and Walt Scheel in Christmas with the Kranks (2004). He starred as private detective Loren Visser in Blood Simple (1984), the Coen brothers' first film, for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.
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Green and Gold
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2025
Outlaw Posse
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2024
A Little White Lie
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2023
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
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2015
Calvary
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2014
Arthur Newman
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2013
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
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2013
The Raven
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2012
Love Sick Love
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2012
Big Stan
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2009
Youth in Revolt
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2009
Don McKay
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2009
Your Name Here
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2008
Sherman's Way
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2008
Man in the Chair
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2007
Racing Stripes
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2005
Christmas with the Kranks
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2004
Snow Dogs
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2002
Poor White Trash
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2000
Me and Will
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1999
Wild Wild West
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1999
Twilight
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1998
My Best Friend's Wedding
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1997
Romeo + Juliet
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1997
Retroactive
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1997
A Time to Kill
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1996
Panther
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1996
Albino Alligator
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1996
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
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1995
The Glass Shield
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1995
Relative Fear
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1994
Probable Cause
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1994
Camp Nowhere
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1994
Equinox
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1993
Bitter Harvest
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1993
The Music of Chance
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1993
Wilder Napalm
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1993
White Sands
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1992
The Naked Truth
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1992
Killer Image
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1992
Four Eyes and Six Guns
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1992
Narrow Margin
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1991
Clean and Sober
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1990
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
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1990
Red Scorpion
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1989
Chattahoochee
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1989
Catch Me If You Can
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1989
The Mighty Quinn
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1989
Sunset
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1988
The Milagro Beanfield War
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1988
Harry and the Hendersons
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1987
Back to School
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1987
Raising Arizona
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1987
No Man's Land
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1987
Critters
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1986
Fletch
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1986
The Best of Times
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1986
Wildcats
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1986
Blood Simple
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1985
The Pope of Greenwich Village
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1985
Missing in Action
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1985
Serpico
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1984
Grandview, U.S.A.
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1984
Silkwood
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1984
Scandalous
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1984
Blade Runner
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1982
Nickelodeon
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1982
Reds
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1982
Cannery Row
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1982
The Escape Artist
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1982
Ordinary People
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1981
Brubaker
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1981
Back Roads
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1981
Raise the Titanic
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1980
Bound for Glory
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1980
The Jerk
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1980
Straight Time
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1980
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
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1979
A Question of Guilt
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1978
Slap Shot
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1977
Airport '77
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1977
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
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1977
The Gambler
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1977
Mikey and Nicky
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1976
At Long Last Love
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1975
What's Up, Doc?
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1972
Get to Know Your Rabbit
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1972
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
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1971
Cold Turkey
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1971
Little Big Man
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1970
The Traveling Executioner
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1970
End of the Road
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1970
Alice's Restaurant
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1969
