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).
168 movies · 54 shows
Green and Gold
2025·7.0
Brothers
2024·5.9
Outlaw Posse
2024·4.7
Dotty and Soul
2023·4.0
A Little White Lie
2023·5.7
The Immaculate Room
2022·5.2
The Mimic
2021·4.3
Knives Out
2019·7.8
South of Bix
2019·5.8
Raising Buchanan
2019·5.7
Faith, Hope & Love
2019·7.5
Sorry, Not Sorry
2019·6.0
Change in the Air
2018·5.7
Toto
2018·0.0
Shifting Gears
2018·6.5
Boiling Pot
2015·5.2
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015·5.2
Calvary
2014·7.1
Love Sick Love
2012·5.5
Arthur Newman
2012·5.6
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012·7.0
Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency
2011·4.8
Chasing 3000
2010·6.2
The Assignment
2010·6.5
Youth in Revolt
2009·6.1
Don McKay
2009·4.9
Haunted Echoes
2008·4.2
Your Name Here
2008·3.3
A True Character
2008·0.0
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007·7.8
Big Stan
2007·6.6
Man in the Chair
2007·6.5
Greener Mountains
2005·5.3
Racing Stripes
2005·5.9
Christmas with the Kranks
2004·6.2
Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2003·7.9
Baggage
2003·8.0
Snow Dogs
2002·5.6
Eyeball Eddie
2001·7.0
Christmas in the Clouds
2001·6.3
Poor White Trash
2000·4.6
Jack of Hearts
2000·2.9
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000·7.7
Random Hearts
1999·5.6
Monster!
1999·5.0
The Iron Giant
1999·8.0
Me and Will
1999·5.4
Wild Wild West
1999·5.3
Nightmare in Big Sky Country
1998·10.0
Men in White
1998·3.8
Erasable You
1998·8.0
Chairman of the Board
1998·3.6
Twilight
1998·6.1
My Best Friend's Wedding
1997·6.6
The Killing Jar
1997·4.4
Retroactive
1997·6.1
Albino Alligator
1997·5.7
Romeo + Juliet
1996·6.8
The Lottery
1996·6.0
A Time to Kill
1996·7.4
Portraits of a Killer
1996·4.2
Criminal Hearts
1996·4.8
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
1995·5.9
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1995·6.8
Panther
1995·6.3
Dead Badge
1995·6.8
Relative Fear
1994·5.2
Probable Cause
1994·4.6
The Glass Shield
1994·5.2
Camp Nowhere
1994·5.9
Cops & Robbersons
1994·5.2
Madness of Method
1994·7.0
Bitter Harvest
1993·4.7
Wilder Napalm
1993·5.6
The Music of Chance
1993·6.5
Four Eyes and Six-Guns
1992·3.5
The Naked Truth
1992·3.1
Equinox
1992·5.7
Wild Card
1992·6.0
White Sands
1992·5.9
Killer Image
1992·4.3
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
1991·6.1
Silverfox
1991·0.0
Fourth Story
1991·5.4
The Flash
1990·6.5
Narrow Margin
1990·6.5
Chattahoochee
1990·5.8
Love and Lies
1990·0.0
Catch Me... If You Can
1989·5.6
Thunderground
1989·4.3
The Mighty Quinn
1989·6.0
Red Scorpion
1988·6.0
War Party
1988·6.3
Clean and Sober
1988·6.3
Sunset
1988·5.7
The Milagro Beanfield War
1988·6.6
No Man's Land
1987·6.0
Harry and the Hendersons
1987·6.1
Murder Ordained
1987·5.0
Raising Arizona
1987·7.1
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987·6.0
Broken Vows
1987·4.8
Hero in the Family
1986·6.5
Back to School
1986·6.3
The Deliberate Stranger
1986·6.3
Resting Place
1986·6.3
Critters
1986·6.5
Wildcats
1986·6.3
The Best of Times
1986·5.6
The Right of the People
1986·5.7
The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn
1985·0.0
Fletch
1985·6.7
Blood Simple
1985·7.3
Missing in Action
1984·5.9
Courage
1984·6.0
Grandview, U.S.A.
1984·5.8
The Outlaws
1984·0.0
The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984·6.3
Scandalous
1984·4.7
Silkwood
1983·6.9
Night Partners
1983·7.5
The Woman Who Willed a Miracle
1983·9.0
Blade Runner
1982·7.9
The Escape Artist
1982·6.2
Fast-Walking
1982·5.8
Cannery Row
1982·5.8
Reds
1981·6.9
Back Roads
1981·5.4
Hellinger's Law
1981·8.8
High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane
1980·4.7
Ordinary People
1980·7.4
Raise the Titanic
1980·5.4
Brubaker
1980·7.1
City in Fear
1980·5.7
Skag
1980·0.0
The Gift
1979·6.5
The Jerk
1979·6.9
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
1979·5.6
Dear Detective
1979·10.0
No Other Love
1979·8.0
Straight Time
1978·7.1
A Question of Guilt
1978·7.0
Superdome
1978·4.7
Red Alert
1977·5.5
Airport '77
1977·5.6
Slap Shot
1977·6.8
Nickelodeon
1976·6.2
Mikey and Nicky
1976·6.9
Bound for Glory
1976·6.9
The Invasion of Johnson County
1976·6.6
Crime Club
1975·7.0
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975·6.6
At Long Last Love
1975·5.1
Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
1975·5.7
The Gambler
1974·6.7
Serpico
1973·7.5
Kid Blue
1973·6.9
Get to Know Your Rabbit
1972·5.0
What's Up, Doc?
1972·7.4
They Might Be Giants
1971·7.0
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971·6.4
Cold Turkey
1971·6.3
Little Big Man
1970·7.4
The Traveling Executioner
1970·5.9
End of the Road
1970·5.1
Alice's Restaurant
1969·6.3
Stiletto
1969·5.3
Midnight Cowboy
1969·7.5