M. Emmet Walsh

Michael Emmet Walsh (March 22, 1935 – March 19, 2024) 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.

Walsh's other numerous film appearances include Little Big Man (1970), What's Up, Doc? (1972), Serpico (1973), The Gambler (1974), Bound for Glory (1976), Slap Shot (1977), Airport '77 (1977), Brubaker (1980), Ordinary People (1980), Reds (1981), Silkwood (1983), Missing in Action (1984), Fletch (1985), Back to School (1986), Raising Arizona (1987), Romeo + Juliet (1996), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), The Iron Giant (1999), Calvary (2014), and Knives Out (2019). Over five decades as a character actor, he credited roles in more than 220 films and television shows.<ref name="Cain">Template:Cite news</ref>

Early life, family and education

Michael Emmet Walsh was born on March 22, 1935, in Ogdensburg, New York,<ref name="Pedersen" /> the son of Agnes Katharine (née Sullivan) and Harry Maurice Walsh Sr., who was a customs agent, as were his grandfather and brother.<ref name="APDalton">Template:Cite web</ref> He was of Irish descent, and was raised in rural Swanton, Vermont, where he underwent a mastoid operation at age 3, which left Walsh deaf in his left ear.<ref name="Twomey Times" />

Walsh graduated from Clarkson University in 1958 (B.A., Business Administration), where he dabbled in stage productions.<ref name= highest>Template:Cite web</ref> Encouraged by a faculty advisor, he moved to New York City to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Career

Walsh performed in regional theater in the 1960s, first as a prop man.<ref name= highest /> He made his Broadway debut in 1969, with Al Pacino, in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?.<ref name="Twomey Times" /> Many years later, in 2004, Walsh appeared in the London production of Sam Shepard's Buried Child.<ref name="Twomey Times" />

According to his manager, Sandy Joseph, "Walsh's tremendous body of work includes 119 feature films and more than 250 television productions."<ref name="USAToday">Template:Cite news</ref> Being partially deaf in one ear and with an accent harkening from Vermont made it clear to Walsh: "I wasn't going to do Shaw and Shakespeare and Molière — my speech was simply too bad."<ref name="Twomey Times" /> His persona was a "mesmerising everyman and an indelible gargoyle" who featured "poached-egg eyes."<ref name="Cain"/>

Walsh specialized in playing villains who were blissfully oblivious to their villainy.<ref name= "Koseluk">Template:Cite news</ref> He brought a "delightfully menacing presence" to his characters.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Subscription required</ref> He was a no-nonsense worker bee in the film industry. Walsh characterized himself as approaching "each job thinking it might be my last, so it better be the best work possible. I want to be remembered as a working actor. I'm being paid for what I'd do for nothing."<ref name="Pedersen" />

Walsh spent years honing his craft in movie bit parts and on stage. His first appearance in films was uncredited in Midnight Cowboy (1969),<ref name=highest /><ref name="Cain"/> followed by Alice's Restaurant (1969),<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Pedersen" /> Little Big Man (1970), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), They Might Be Giants (1971),<ref name="Pedersen"/> What's Up, Doc? (1972),<ref name="Pedersen"/> Serpico (1973),<ref name="Pedersen"/> The Gambler (1974), Bound for Glory (1976), and Airport '77 (1977),<ref name="Koseluk" /> Walsh came to prominence in the iconic 1977 hockey comedy film Slap Shot, in which he played the cynical small-town sportswriter Dickie Dunn,<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Pedersen"/><ref name="An Ode to Slap Shot's Dickie Dunn">Template:Cite news</ref> and the 1978 crime film Straight Time, in which he played a vicious parole officer opposite Dustin Hoffman.<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Pedersen"/> USA Today film critic Mike Clark wrote that the film character who was "a cesspool in a flowered shirt" was typically Walsh.<ref name="WP">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="BBC" /> He also had a small but memorable role as a crazed sniper in the Steve Martin comedy The Jerk (1979),<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Pedersen"/> followed by roles in the drama films Brubaker (1980),<ref name="Pedersen"/> Ordinary People (1980),<ref name="Pedersen"/> and Reds (1981).<ref name="REDS-NYT"/><ref name="REDS-tvguide"/>

Bigger roles

One of his best-known roles was Captain Harry Bryant in Ridley Scott's science fiction cult film Blade Runner (1982).<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Parker">Template:Cite news</ref> He characterized Blade Runner as being especially difficult and tiresome to make, given director Ridley Scott's insistence on perfection. As a hard-bitten police commander, Walsh's character brings Deckard (Harrison Ford) out of retirement to "retire" cyborgs,<ref name="AP">Template:Cite news</ref> telling Deckard, "I need your magic."<ref name="Koseluk" /> Walsh allowed that he was completely confused as Blade Runner was filmed, and did not have any idea where it was going.<ref name="Parker"/><ref name="Koseluk" />

In 1983, Walsh appeared in Mike Nichols' biographical film Silkwood. In 1984, he was cast as a crooked Texas private eye in the film noir Blood Simple, which was the Coen brothers' first film<ref name="Cain"/> and resulted in Walsh winning the first Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.<ref name="Walsh">Template:Cite web</ref> Pauline Kael praised Walsh's performance: "his broad buffoonery helps to ground the picture, to keep it jaundiced and low-down."<ref name="Kael">Template:Cite magazine</ref> He then reteamed with the Coen brothers for Raising Arizona as a memorable "yakking machine shop worker".<ref name="Koseluk" />

Other film roles include a prostate examining doctor in the Chevy Chase film Fletch (1985),<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Walsh" /> a college diving coach in the Rodney Dangerfield film Back to School (1986), a police chief in the horror film Critters (1986), John Lithgow’s father in the Bigfoot comedy Harry and the Hendersons (1987),<ref name="Cain"/> the apothecary in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996),<ref name="Cain"/> father of the groom in the romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding (1997),<ref name="Cain"/> the voice of Earl Stutz in animated film The Iron Giant (1999),<ref name="Cain"/> the adventure film Snow Dogs (2002), and the Christmas comedy film Christmas with the Kranks (2004), where he played one of the Kranks' neighbors.<ref name="Cain"/> In 1992, he appeared as a US senator in David Winning's Canadian film Killer Image. He later appeared as a writer in the Irish comedy-drama film Calvary (2014),<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/> and a security guard in the mystery film Knives Out (2019).<ref name="Cain" /><ref name="USAToday" />

Television

Walsh (top left) as Alex Lembeck on The Sandy Duncan Show in 1972

On television, in September 1971, Walsh appeared in Season 2, Episode 1 of All in the Family and also appeared as Alex Lembeck, a motorcycle cop who appointed himself as Sandy Stockton's chaperone and protector on The Sandy Duncan Show in 1972.<ref name="The A.V. Club 1972">Template:Cite web</ref> He appeared in an episode of the NBC drama series Gibbsville in 1976 and Little House on the Prairie in 1981.<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes" /> Walsh also made occasional guest appearances on Home Improvement as Tim Taylor's father-in-law in 1994. Other appearances included Early Edition, The X-Files, Ed, and Frasier.<ref name="Cain"/> He also appeared as Dr. Joseph Krofft, a medical examiner with a grudge against Andy Sipowicz, on an episode of NYPD Blue.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Later appearances included the series Sneaky Pete<ref name="TV Guide" /> and The Righteous Gemstones.<ref name= "APDalton" />

He was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, Actors Equity, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and The Television Academy.<ref name= highest />

Legacy and accolades

In 1998, the Clarkson Alumni Association presented Walsh with its Golden Knight Award.<ref name= highest />

Critic Nicolas Rapold called Walsh "a consummate old pro of the second-banana business", while movie critic Roger Ebert hailed him as "the poet of sleaze".<ref name="Twomey Times">Template:Cite news</ref> Ebert also fabricated his "Stanton-Walsh Rule": "No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad."<ref name="Cain"/> Walsh was "ham-faced, heavyset" and "often played good old boys with bad intentions".<ref name="Time">Template:Cite magazine</ref>

In 2018, Walsh was inducted into the Character Actor Hall of Fame by his Blade Runner co-star Harrison Ford. Later in the same ceremony, he received the Chairman's Lifetime Achievement Award.<ref name="Twomey Times" />

Walsh established the Blarney Fund Education Trust in 1979 to provide scholarships for college to needy high school graduates in the Swanton, Vermont, area.<ref name="Pedersen" />

Personal life and death

Walsh had a reputation for generosity and wry wit. He habitually distributed two-dollar bills to the set's crew, with some advice: "Don't spend it, and you'll never be broke."<ref name="BBC">Template:Cite news</ref>

Walsh died of cardiac arrest at Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans, Vermont, on March 19, 2024, three days before his 89th birthday.<ref name="Pedersen">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="USAToday"/><ref name="Koseluk"/>

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	References
1969	Alice's Restaurant	Group W Sergeant		<ref name="Cain"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Pedersen"/>
	Midnight Cowboy	Bus Passenger	Uncredited	<ref name="Cain"/>
	Stiletto	Unknown		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1970	End of the Road	Crab Man / Tutu Man		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes">Template:Cite web</ref>
	The Traveling Executioner	Warden Brodski		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Little Big Man	Shotgun Guard		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Pedersen"/>
1971	Cold Turkey	Art		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Escape from the Planet of the Apes	Aide to General Winthrop		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/><ref name="Pedersen"/>
	They Might Be Giants	1st Sanitation Man		<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Pedersen"/>
1972	What's Up, Doc?	Arresting Officer		<ref name="Pedersen"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Get to Know Your Rabbit	Mr. Wendel		<ref name="TV Guide">Template:Cite web</ref>
1973	Kid Blue	Barber		<ref name="TV Guide"/>
	Serpico	Chief Gallagher		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/><ref name="Pedersen"/>
1974	The Gambler	Las Vegas Gambler		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1975	At Long Last Love	Harold		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Crime Club	Lieutenant Jack Doyle		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	The Prisoner of Second Avenue	Joe		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1976	Bound for Glory	Husband		<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
	Nickelodeon	Father Logan		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	The Invasion of Johnson County	Irvine		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Mikey and Nicky	Bus Driver		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1977	Slap Shot	Dickie Dunn		<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Pedersen"/><ref name="An Ode to Slap Shot's Dickie Dunn" /><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Airport '77	Dr. Williams		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1978	Straight Time	Earl Frank		<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Pedersen"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1979	The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh	Wally Cantrell		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	The Jerk	Madman		<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Pedersen"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1980	Brubaker	C.P. "Woody" Woodward		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Raise the Titanic	Master Chief Walker		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Ordinary People	Coach Salan		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/><ref name="Pedersen"/>
1981	Back Roads	Arthur		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Reds	Speaker At Liberal Club		<ref name="REDS-NYT">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="REDS-tvguide">Template:Cite web</ref>
1982	Cannery Row	Mack		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	The Escape Artist	Fritz		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Blade Runner	Captain Bryant		<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Parker"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Fast-Walking	Sergeant Sanger		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1983	Silkwood	Walt Yarborough		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1984	Raw Courage	Colonel Crouse		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Missing in Action	Jack "Tuck" Tucker		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Grandview, U.S.A.	Mr. Clark		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Blood Simple	Loren Visser, PI		<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	The Pope of Greenwich Village	Burns		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Scandalous	Simon Reynolds		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1985	Fletch	Dr. Joseph Dolan		<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1986	Wildcats	Walt Coes		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Critters	Harvey "Harv"		<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	The Best of Times	Charlie		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Back to School	Coach Turnbull		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1987	Harry and the Hendersons	George Henderson Sr.		<ref name="Cain"/>
	No Man's Land	Captain Haun		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Raising Arizona	Machine Shop Ear-Bender		<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1988	The Milagro Beanfield War	Governor		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Clean and Sober	Richard Dirk		<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Sunset	Chief Marvin Dibner		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	War Party	Colin Ditwelier		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Red Scorpion	Dewey Ferguson		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1989	The Mighty Quinn	CIA Agent Fred Miller		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Catch Me If You Can	Johnny Phatmun		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Chattahoochee	Morris		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat	Mort		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Thunderground	Wedge		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1990	Narrow Margin	Sergeant Dominick Benti		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1992	The Naked Truth	Garcia/Gesundheim		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Killer Image	John Kane		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	White Sands	Bert Gibson		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/><ref name="Valle">Template:Cite web</ref>
	Equinox	Pete Petosa		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Four Eyes and Six Guns	Mayor Thornbush		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1993	Bitter Harvest	Sheriff Bob		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	The Music of Chance	Calvin Murks		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Wilder Napalm	Fire Chief		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1994	Dead Badge	Sergeant Miller Hoskins		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Relative Fear	Earl Ladelle		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Camp Nowhere	T.R. Polk		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	The Glass Shield	Hal		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Cops & Robbersons	Unknown	Uncredited	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1995	Criminal Hearts	Martin		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home	Wilcox		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Panther	Dorsett		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1996	Portraits of a Killer	Raymond Garrison		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Albino Alligator	Dino		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	A Time to Kill	Dr. Willard Tyrell Bass	Uncredited	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet	Apothecary		<ref name="Cain"/>
1997	The Killing Jar	Sheriff Foley		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Retroactive	Sam		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	My Best Friend's Wedding	Joe O'Neal		<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1998	Chairman of the Board	Freemont		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Twilight	Lester Ivar		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Erasable You	Ralph Worth		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Nightmare in Big Sky Country	US Marshal Phillips		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1999	Wild Wild West	Train Engineer Coleman		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	The Iron Giant	Earl Stutz	Voice	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/><ref name="btva">Template:Cite web A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.</ref>
	Random Hearts	Billy	Uncredited	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Me and Will	Dean		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Jack of Hearts	Commissioner Menlo Boyce		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2000	Poor White Trash	Judge Pike		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2001	Eyeball Eddie	Coach Cook	Short film	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Christmas in the Clouds	Stu O'Malley		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2002	Snow Dogs	George		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2003	Baggage	Sandy Westphall		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2004	Christmas with the Kranks	Walt Scheel		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2005	Greener Mountain	Muggs		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Racing Stripes	Woodzie		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2007	Man in the Chair	Mickey Hopkins		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Big Stan	Lew Popper		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2008	Sherman's Way	Hoyt		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Your Name Here	Kroger		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Haunted Echoes	Neil		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2009	Don McKay	Samuel		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency	Chief Van Owen		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Youth in Revolt	Mr. Saunders		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2010	Chasing 3000	Chuck Ireland		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2012	The Odd Life of Timothy Green	Uncle Bub		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Arthur Newman	Zazek		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Love Sick Love	Ed		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2014	Calvary	Old Man		<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2015	Boiling Pot	Dean Marison		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power	Gorak		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2018	Shifting Gears	Hank		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Change in the Air	Walter Lemke		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2019	Raising Buchanan	Larry Kiesling		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Faith, Hope & Love	Mr. John		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Knives Out	Mr. Proofroc		<ref name="Cain"/>
	South of Bix	Grandpa	Short film	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2020	The Mimic	The Director		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2022	A Little White Lie	Professor Arthur Baldwin		<ref name="Valle"/>
	Dotty & Soul	Harold Eichelbaum		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	The Immaculate Room	Harry Frith		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2024	Outlaw Posse	Catfish		<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Brothers	Judge Farful	Posthumous release
2025	Green and Gold	Scotty

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	References
1968	The Doctors	Jason Randall	Soap opera
1969	N.Y.P.D.	Freibisch	Episode: "Who's Got the Bundle?"
1970	Arnie	Cliff	Episode: "To Buy or Not to Buy?"
1971	Julia	Gus Anderson	2 episodes	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	All in the Family	Billy Hartfield	Episode: "The Saga of Cousin Oscar"	<ref name="Pedersen"/>
	The Jimmy Stewart Show	Lionel Atkins	Episode: "Another Day, Another Scholar"	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Ironside	Telegraph Clerk	Episode: "Dear Fran..."	<ref name="Pedersen"/><ref name="TV Guide"/>
	Bonanza	Mattheson	Episode: "Warbonnet"	<ref name="Pedersen"/><ref name="TV Guide"/>
1971–1972	Nichols	Gabe McCutcheon	5 episodes	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1972	The Don Rickles Show	Arthur Kingston	Episode #1.4	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
	The Bob Newhart Show	Jack Hoover	Episode: "P-I-L-O-T"	<ref name="Pedersen"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	The Sandy Duncan Show	Alex Lembeck	11 episodes	<ref name="The A.V. Club 1972"/>
1974	McMillan & Wife	Officer Ames	Episode: "Buried Alive"	<ref name="Pedersen"/>
	Amy Prentiss	Tom	Episode: "Baptism of Fire"	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1975	The Rockford Files	Edgar Burch	Episode: "Counter Gambit"	<ref name="Pedersen"/><ref name="TV Guide"/>
	Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic	Mr. Peterson	Television film	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	The Waltons	David Fletcher	Episode: "The Venture"	<ref name="Pedersen"/><ref name="TV Guide"/>
1976	Gibbsville	Yostie	Episode: "Afternoon Waltz"	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1976–1978	Starsky and Hutch	Freddie / Lloyd Herman Eckworth	2 episodes	<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="Pedersen"/>
1977	Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman	Officer Malloy		<ref name="Pedersen"/>
	Red Alert	Sheriff Sweeney	Television film	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1978	Superdome	Whitley		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	James at 15	Coach Federson	Episode: "Queen of the Silver Dollar"	<ref name="Pedersen"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1979	Dear Detective	Captain Gorcey	Episode: "Pilot"	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
	No Other Love	DeFranco	Television film	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	The Gift	Commander		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1980	City in Fear	Sheldon Lewis		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Skag	Moran	Episode: "Pilot"	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane	Harold Patton	Television film	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1981	East of Eden	Sheriff Horace Quinn	3 episodes	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Little House on the Prairie	Callahan	Episode: "Chicago"	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1983	ABC Afterschool Special	Joe Lempke	Episode: "The Woman Who Willed a Miracle"	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Night Partners	Joe Kirby	Television film	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1984	The Outlaws	Warden MacDonald	Television film	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1985	ABC Weekend Special	Rocco	Episode: "The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn"	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
	The Twilight Zone	Peter	Episode: "Dealer's Choice"	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1986	The Hitchhiker	Detective Underhill	Episode: "Ghostwriter"	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
	The Right of the People	Mayor	Television film	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Resting Place	Sergeant		<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
	The Disney Sunday Movie	General Presser	Episode: "Hero in the Family"	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	The Deliberate Stranger	Detective Sam Davies	Television film	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Amazing Stories	Grandpa	Episode: "Magic Saturday"	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1987	Broken Vows	Detective Mulligan	Television film	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	The Abduction of Kari Swenson	Don Nichols		<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Murder Ordained	Vern Humphrey	Miniseries	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1989	Brotherhood of the Rose	Hardy	2 episodes	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Unsub	Ned Platt	8 episodes	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Tales from the Crypt	Jonas	Episode: "Collection Completed"	<ref name="TV Guide"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1990	True Betrayal	Clyde Wilson	Television film	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	The Civil War	Various roles	Voice, 9 episodes	<ref name="Pedersen"/>
	The Flash	Henry Allen	2 episodes	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1991	Deadly Identity	Harry	Television film	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Silverfox	Charles Blankenship		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1992	Wild Card	Mose		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1993	The Jackie Thomas Show	Arlen Thomas	Episode: "Aloha, Io-wahu"	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1994	Home Improvement	Colonel Fred Patterson	2 episodes	<ref name="Cain"/>
	Probable Cause	Sadler	Television film	<ref name="TV Guide"/>
1995	From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	Morris		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1996	The Outer Limits	Sanford Vallé	Episode: "The Refuge"	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Early Edition	Santa Claus	Episode: "Christmas"	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1998	Tracey Takes On...	Jimmy Duff	Episode: "Sports"	<ref name="Pedersen"/>
	Men in White	Stanley Snyder	Television film	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1999	The X-Files	Arthur Dales	Episode: "The Unnatural"	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	The Wild Thornberrys	Gemsbok #1	Voice, episode: "Rain Dance"	<ref name="btva" /><ref name="Pedersen"/>
	Monster!	Lloyd	Television film	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
1999–2001	Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot	Mack	Voice, 26 episodes	<ref name="Pedersen"/><ref name="TV Guide"/>
2000	NYPD Blue	Joe Kroft	Episode: "Roll Out the Barrel"	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Gideon's Crossing	Dr. George Matthews	Episode: "A Routine Case"	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
2001	Night Visions	Gus	Episode: "Reunion"	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	The Mind of the Married Man	Randall Evans	5 episodes	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Frasier	Rich Koechner	Episode: "Bully for Martin"	<ref name="Cain"/>
2002	What's New, Scooby-Doo?	Jeb	Voice, episode: "Scooby-Doo Christmas"	<ref name="TV Guide"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
2003	Charlie Lawrence	Cubby	Episode: "New Kid in School"	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales	Wally Westland	Television special	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	The Guardian	Ezra Pence	Episode: "Big Coal"	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2006	The X's	Stanley	Voice, episode: "In-Law Enforcement"	<ref name="btva" />
2010	'Til Death	Uncle Rudolph	Episode: "Let's Go"	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="TV Guide"/>
2010–2013	Pound Puppies	Olaf	Voice, 46 episodes	<ref name="btva" />
2012	Army Wives	Bernie Wallacheck	Episode: "Battle Scars"	<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
	Damages	Lyle Hewes	3 episodes	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2012–2015	Adventure Time	Cosmic Owl	Voice, 4 episodes	<ref name="Cain"/><ref name="btva" /><ref name="Pedersen"/>
2014	Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories	Detective	Episode: "Toes"	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2019	Sneaky Pete	"Tex" Hopkins	7 episodes	<ref name="TV Guide"/>
2019–2022	The Righteous Gemstones	Grandaddy Roy Gemstone	2 episodes	<ref name="Cain"/>
2022	American Gigolo	Coleman	Episode: "Sunday Girl"	<ref name="Twomey Times" />

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