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The American actor M. Emmet Walsh, who appeared in more than a hundred films for film and television, died this Tuesday of a heart attack at the age of 88.
His manager, Sandy Joseph, announced the news this Thursday.
Walsh (New York, 1935) had a prolific six-decade career in theater, television and film, and among his best-known titles are blockbusters such as
Blade Runner
(1982),
Critters
(1986) and
My best friend's wedding
(1997). .
“Walsh's tremendous work includes 119 films and more than 220 television productions,” said his manager in a statement reported by
The New York Post.
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Emmet Walsh was born in New York and raised in Swanton, Vermont.
His first film was
Alice's restaurant
(1969).
He played a sports journalist in Paul Newman's sports comedy
Slap Shot
(1977), the officer supervising Dustin Hoffman's parole in
Straight Time
(1978), the sniper who pursues Steve Martin in
The Jerk
(1979), and the Los Angeles police chief who breaks Harrison Ford out of jail in
Blade Runner (
1982).
One of his last jobs was with fellow actor Daniel Craig, whom he accompanied in
Knives out
(2019).
In an interview with the
Hollywood Reporter,
Walsh said
in 2017 that the film that always haunted him, the one he was asked about the most, was
Blade Runner.
A challenge for the interpreter because, in his words, it was the film that was most difficult for him to explain:
“
We didn't know what to say, think or do!
We didn't know what the hell we had done!
The only one who seemed to understand it was Ridley.”
His last role was in the western
Outlaw Posse
alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Cedric the Entertainer.
His presence was constant on television for more than six decades.
Among the series she starred in are
Frasier, The X-Files
and
The Twilight Zone
.
“I approach every job thinking it could be my last, so it better be my best.
I want to be remembered as a hard-working actor.
“They pay me for what I would do in exchange for nothing,” said the interpreter.
Variety magazine recalled this Tuesday the rule created by film critic Roger Ebert: Stanton-Walsh, according to which no film that had Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh as a supporting actor could be bad.