3 days shy of 89. I enjoyed his work. One of those actors that never looked like he was acting.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
March 21, 2024, 06:21 AM
mttaylor1066
I had a “brush with greatness” with him in Vancouver about 20 years ago. I was in town, working with the Vancouver airport.
I was sitting in a restaurant bar having lunch, watching a Big Ten basketball game when M. Emmett Walsh came in and sat down next to me. I recognized him at once.
We talked about basketball, shooting movies in Canada vs. California, French Onion soup as an entree and other topics. The game over, my lunch consumed, I got up to leave.
“Oh, here take this,” Mr. Walsh said. He handed me a folded-up piece of paper. I started to unfold it…
“No, no… don’t open that here. Wait until you get back to your hotel.”
I thought to myself “Wow, I must be giving off the wrong vibe here… holy crap!”
I stepped out on the street and unfolded the paper. It was a listing of his movies in very small type. It might have made a shorter list to recount the movies he HASNT been in.
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Company, villainous company hath been the spoil of me.
March 21, 2024, 07:40 AM
erj_pilot
I can’t think of a movie I’ve seen him in that I didn’t like. I sometimes use his line from Brubaker (as “Woody”) in these ever changing times…”Don’t f**k with tradition.”
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
March 21, 2024, 07:57 AM
83v45magna
Blood Simple was the first thing I really remember him from and remains my favorite of all his movies.
"In Russia, they make only 50 cent a day..."
One of the greats. He will be sorely missed.
March 21, 2024, 08:46 AM
rainman64
This is the first movie and scene I remember him from:
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March 21, 2024, 09:04 AM
TMats
As soon as I saw his name in the thread title, I had his picture in my mind. A specific role? I don’t know, I’ll watch The Milagro Beanfield War as a result of this thread; it’s been too long.
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March 21, 2024, 09:31 AM
ElToro
Great character actor. Amazing career. He was the guy that shot up the gas station in “ the jerk”.
March 21, 2024, 01:50 PM
NOCkid
When I hear his name it always reminds me of Roger Ebert's quote:
"No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad".
March 21, 2024, 02:03 PM
ftttu
Sad to hear of his passing. I enjoyed his work.
I remember seeing him in Christmas With the Kranks back in 2004, and I didn’t think he had much time left. Great he made it another 20 years.
Retired Texas Lawman
March 21, 2024, 02:16 PM
PASig
quote:
Originally posted by ftttu: Sad to hear of his passing. I enjoyed his work.
I remember seeing him in Christmas With the Kranks back in 2004, and I didn’t think he had much time left. Great he made it another 20 years.
My wife loves that movie and I could have sworn that he died not long after it was made but I guess that was another cast member, maybe the minister.
March 21, 2024, 02:33 PM
B92F
One of several memorable characters in Cannery Row.
Under Construction
March 21, 2024, 03:18 PM
CoolRich59
I liked him in The Mighty Quinn.
_____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell
March 21, 2024, 03:36 PM
YooperSigs
He had a small role in Raising Arizona that was great.
End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
March 21, 2024, 09:58 PM
Bassamatic
A truly gifted character actor.
.....never marry a woman who is mean to your waitress.
March 21, 2024, 10:06 PM
parabellum
Walsh played Dustin Hoffman's asshole parole officer in the seldom seen Straight Time, 1978.