Most Recent Role: on The Guardian
Alias Name(s): M. Emmett Walsh
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Ogdensburg, New York, USA
Birthday: 3-22-1935
Birth Name: Michael Emmet Walsh
Alias Name(s): M. Emmett Walsh
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Ogdensburg, New York, USA
Birthday: 3-22-1935
Birth Name: Michael Emmet Walsh
Most Recent Appearance
Big Coal
Tuesday 30 September 2003 on CBS
Nick tries to help a young lady who has cancer but get can't the insurance company to help her out, this puts Nick in a bind. Nick asks Lulu to help him get the insurance company to pay for her medical care. Nick tells his client's dad he needs to look somewhere else for the money.
He has won two awards: in 1986, he won a Independent Spirit Award for Blood Simple and in 2007 a Best Ensemble Cast Award for Man In The Chair.
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He owns a rural home in West Swanton, Virginia.
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He has been deaf since the age of three.
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In college, his roommate was actor/writer William Devane.
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He portrayed Jack Hoover in the pilot episode of The Bob Newhart Show (1972).
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M. Emmet Walsh: I'm being paid for what I'd do for nothing.
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M. Emmett Walsh: I don't have an ego when I get the work. If I'm playing a doctor I want you to see a doctor. I don't want you to see an Emmet Walsh doctor and that's I think been the confusion with my career. People know my work, but they don't know who I am. I've always had fun hiding in the character.
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M. Emmett Walsh: I approach each job thinking I may die of a heart attack, so it had better be the best work possible.
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Other Appearances
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Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
Mack |
Dear Detective
Capt. Gorcey |
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Nichols
Gabe McCutcheon |
The Mind of the Married Man
Randall Evans |
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The Sandy Duncan Show
Alex Lembeck |
Unsub
Ned Platt |
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All in the Family
The Saga of Cousin Oscar Billy |
Amazing Stories
Magic Saturday Grandpa |
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Arnie
To Buy or Not to Buy? Cliff |
Baretta
Dead Man Out McDade |
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Baretta
The Secret of Terry Lake Potter |
Bonanza
Warbonnet Mattheson |
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