Michael Emmet Walsh is an American actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 who has appeared in over 100 film

Film

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 and television

Television

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 productions.

Life and career

Walsh was born in Ogdensburg, New York

Ogdensburg, New York

Ogdensburg is a city in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 11,128 at the 2010 census. In the late 18th century, European-American settlers named the community after American land owner and developer Samuel Ogden....

, the son of Agnes Kathrine (née Sullivan) and Harry Maurice Walsh, Sr., a customs

Customs

Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting and safeguarding customs duties and for controlling the flow of goods including animals, transports, personal effects and hazardous items in and out of a country...

 agent. He was raised in a rural area of Vermont

Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...

, and attended college at Clarkson University

Clarkson University

-The Clarkson School:The Clarkson School, a special division of Clarkson University, was founded in 1978 as a unique educational opportunity. The School offers students an early entrance opportunity into college, replacing the typical senior year of high school with a year of college...

.

He came to prominence in the 1978 crime drama, Straight Time

Straight Time

Straight Time is a 1978 film directed by Ulu Grosbard, starring Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh, and Kathy Bates.-Plot summary:...

, in which he played a sadistic parole officer. He also had a memorable role as a crazed sniper in the Steve Martin

Steve Martin

Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer....

 comedy The Jerk. One of his most well-known roles was Bryant in Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer. His most famous films include The Duellists , Alien , Blade Runner , Legend , Thelma & Louise , G. I...

's cult classic

Cult film

A cult film, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but specific group of fans. Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside the small fanbases; however, there have been exceptions that have managed to gain fame among mainstream audiences...

 Blade Runner

Blade Runner

Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K...

. His most acclaimed performance, arguably, was the double-crossing private detective in Blood Simple

Blood Simple

Blood Simple is a 1984 neo-noir crime film. It was the directorial debut of Joel Coen and the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a noted director...

(1984), for which he won the 1986 Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. Walsh made occasional guest appearances on Home Improvement as Tim Allen

Tim Allen

Tim Allen is an American comedian, actor, voice-over artist, and entertainer, known for his role in the sitcom Home Improvement...

's father-in-law. In 1992 he appeared as a powerful U.S. Senator in David Winning

David Winning

David Winning is a Canadian and American dual Citizen film and television director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and occasional actor. Although Winning has worked in numerous film and TV genres, his name is most commonly associated with science fiction, thrillers and drama.-Biography:Winning...

's Killer Image

Killer Image (1992 film)

Killer Image is a 1992 independent Canadian suspense film directed by David Winning. It starred Michael Ironside as "Luther Kane" and John Pyper-Ferguson as "Max Oliver". The story centers on two brothers, one a powerful senator, one a ruthless killer. A photographer captures images of the...

, playing Michael Ironside

Michael Ironside

Michael Ironside is a Canadian-born actor. He has also worked as a voice actor, producer, film director, and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American productions. He is best known for playing villains and "tough guy" heroes, though he has also portrayed...

's brother. In Christmas with the Kranks

Christmas with the Kranks

Christmas with the Kranks is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Joe Roth and starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis. The screenplay by Chris Columbus is based on the 2001 novel Skipping Christmas by John Grisham.-Plot:...

, he played one of Allen's neighbors. He also appeared as Alex Lembeck, a motorcycle cop who appointed himself as Sandy Stockton's (Sandy Duncan

Sandy Duncan

Sandra Kay "Sandy" Duncan is an American singer, dancer and actress of stage and television, recognized through a blonde, pixie cut hairstyle and perky demeanor...

) chaperone/protector on The Sandy Duncan Show

The Sandy Duncan Show

Funny Face and The Sandy Duncan Show are two sitcoms aired by CBS starring Sandy Duncan as part of its 1971 and 1972 fall lineups, respectively...

in 1972.

According to Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...

's Stanton-Walsh Rule, "no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad." Ebert later conceded that this rule was broken by 1999's Wild Wild West

Wild Wild West

Wild Wild West is a 1999 American steampunk action-comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline , Kenneth Branagh and Salma Hayek.Similar to the original TV series it was based on, The Wild Wild West, the film features a large amount of gadgetry...

and Dream a Little Dream

Dream a Little Dream

Dream a Little Dream is a 1989 teen film directed by Marc Rocco and stars Jason Robards, Corey Feldman, Piper Laurie, Meredith Salenger, Harry Dean Stanton and Corey Haim. It was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. Released in 1,019 theaters, it accumulated $5,552,441. This was the third film...

.

Filmography

• Alice's Restaurant
  Alice's Restaurant (film)
  Alice's Restaurant is a 1969 American comedy film co-written and directed by Arthur Penn. It is an adaptation of the 1967 folk song of the same name by singer and songwriter Arlo Guthrie...
  
  (1969) – Group W Sergeant
• Midnight Cowboy
  Midnight Cowboy
  Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. It was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Dustin Hoffman and newcomer Jon Voight in the title role. Notable smaller roles are filled by Sylvia Miles, John...
  
  (1969) – Bus Passenger
• Little Big Man (1970) – Shotgun Guard
• Escape from the Planet of the Apes
  Escape from the Planet of the Apes
  Escape from the Planet of the Apes, directed by Don Taylor, is a 1971 science fiction film starring Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman and Ricardo Montalbán. It is the third of five films in the original Planet of the Apes series produced by Arthur P. Jacobs, the second being Beneath the...
  
  (1971) – Aide to General Winthrop
• What's Up, Doc?
  What's Up, Doc? (1972 film)
  What's Up, Doc? is a 1972 screwball comedy film released by Warner Bros., directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, and Madeline Kahn...
  
  (1972) – Arresting Officer
• Get to Know Your Rabbit
  Get to Know Your Rabbit
  Get to Know Your Rabbit is a 1972 American comedy film written by Jordan Crittenden and directed by Brian De Palma.-Synopsis:Corporate executive Donald Beeman, fed up with the rat race, impulsively quits his job and takes to the road as a traveling tap dancing magician under the tutelage of Mr....
  
  (1972) – Mr. Wendel
• Kid Blue
  Kid Blue
  Kid Blue is a 1973 film directed by James Frawley and starring Dennis Hopper, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle and Ben Johnson-Plot:Bickford Waner arrives in Dime Box, Texas to find work. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly . Molly seduces Bickford...
  
  (1973) – Jonesy
• Serpico
  Serpico
  Serpico is a 1973 American crime film directed by Sidney Lumet. It is based on the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico, who went undercover to expose the corruption of his fellow officers, after being pushed to the brink at first by their distrust and later by the threats and...
  
  (1973) – Chief Ghallagher
• Doctor Dan (1974) – Mr. Wallace
• At Long Last Love
  At Long Last Love
  At Long Last Love is an American motion picture musical that was released in 1975. It was written, produced and directed by Peter Bogdanovich and stars Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepherd....
  
  (1975) – Harold
• Crime Club (1975) – Lt. Jack Doyle
• Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
  Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
  Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic is a 1975 made-for-TV film about a teenager who becomes an alcoholic.-Plot Summary:Sarah Travis is a 15 year old teenager going through a lot of stress and insecurity. Sarah comes from divorced parents, she lives with her mother and step-father and she...
  
  (1975) (TV film)
• The Invasion of Johnson County (1976) – Irvine
• Mikey and Nicky
  Mikey and Nicky
  Mikey and Nicky is a 1976 film written and directed by Elaine May. Using three cameras that she sometimes left running for hours, May captured spontaneous interaction between Peter Falk and John Cassavetes...
  
  (1976) – Bus Driver
• Slap Shot
  Slap Shot (film)
  Slap Shot is a 1977 film comedy starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean directed by George Roy Hill. It depicts a minor league hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a declining factory town.- Plot :...
  
  (1976) – Dickie Dunn
• Airport '77
  Airport '77
  Airport '77 is a 1977 disaster film and second sequel in the Airport franchise.The film stars a number of veteran actors, including Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Joseph Cotten, Christopher Lee and Olivia de Havilland. Like its predecessors, Airport '77 was a box office hit earning US$30 million and...
  
  (1977) – Dr. Williams
• Red Alert (1977 CBS-TV movie) – Sheriff Sweeney
• Superdome
  Superdome (film)
  Superdome is a 1978 made for TV drama movie. It premiered on ABC as part of The ABC Monday Night Movie series and was used to promote Super Bowl XII...
  
  (1978 ABC-TV movie) – Whitley
• A Question of Guilt (1978) – McCarthy
• Straight Time
  Straight Time
  Straight Time is a 1978 film directed by Ulu Grosbard, starring Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh, and Kathy Bates.-Plot summary:...
  
  (1978) – Earl Frank
• Dear Detective (1979) – Capt. Gorcey
• The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
  The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
  The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh is an American sports/fantasy comedy film that was released in 1979. The movie was directed by Gilbert Moses and co-produced by David Dashev and Gary Stromberg. It was produced by Lorimar and distributed by United Artists. The rights to the film are currently owned by...
  
  (1979) – Wally Cantrell
• The Jerk
  The Jerk
  The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film. Directed by Carl Reiner, the film was written by Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb and Michael Elias. This was Steve Martin's first starring role in a feature film. The film also features Bernadette Peters, M. Emmet Walsh and Jackie Mason.-Plot:The film begins...
  
  (1979) – Madman
• Brubaker
  Brubaker
  Brubaker is an American 1980 film about a prison in distress and the Warden Henry Brubaker who attempts to reform the system....
  
  (1980) – C.P. Woodward
• Raise the Titanic
  Raise The Titanic (film)
  Raise the Titanic is a 1980 American big budget adventure film by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment, directed by Jerry Jameson and written by Eric Hughes and Adam Kennedy . The film stars Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer, and Alec Guinness. The film's tagline was "Once they said...
  
  (1980) – Master Chief Walker
• Ordinary People
  Ordinary People
  Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of Robert Redford. It stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton....
  
  (1980) – Coach Salan
• Black Roads (1981) – Arthur
• Reds (1981) – Speaker at Liberal Club
• Cannery Row
  Cannery Row (film)
  Cannery Row is the title of a 1982 film directed by David S. Ward. It stars Nick Nolte and Debra Winger.Like the 1955 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream, the movie is adapted from John Steinbeck's novels Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday and contains many of the same plot elements...
  
  (1982) – Mack
• The Escape Artist
  The Escape Artist
  The Escape Artist is a 1982 film starring Griffin O'Neal and Raúl Juliá. It was based on a book by David Wagoner, and was the directorial debut of Caleb Deschanel.-Plot:...
  
  (1982) – Fritz
• Blade Runner
  Blade Runner
  Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K...
  
  (1982) – Bryant
• Fast-Walking
  Fast-Walking
  Fast-Walking is a 1982 dramatic film directed by James B. Harris. The film is based on Ernest Brawley's 1974 novel The Rap. It was also issued theatrically in the U.S. under the title The Joint....
  
  (1983) – Sergeant Sanger
• Silkwood
  Silkwood
  Silkwood is a 1983 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was inspired by the true-life story of Karen Silkwood, who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she...
  
  (1983) – Walt Yarborough
• Courage (1984) – Colonel Crouse
• Grandview, U.S.A.
  Grandview, U.S.A.
  Grandview, U.S.A. is a 1984 American comedy-drama film directed by Randal Kleiser. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Carole Cook, Ramon Bieri, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael Winslow, Troy Donahue, and Steve Dahl. The original music...
  
  (1984) – Mr. Clark
• The Pope of Greenwich Village
  The Pope of Greenwich Village
  The Pope of Greenwich Village is a 1984 American film starring Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan and Burt Young. Page earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her two-scene role. The film was adapted by screenwriter Vincent Patrick...
  
  (1984) – Burns
• Blood Simple
  Blood Simple
  Blood Simple is a 1984 neo-noir crime film. It was the directorial debut of Joel Coen and the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a noted director...
  
  (1984) – Loren Visser
• Missing in Action
  Missing in Action (film)
  Missing in Action is a 1984 action B-movie directed by Joseph Zito and starring Chuck Norris. It is set in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue. Colonel Braddock, who escaped a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp 10 years earlier, returns to Vietnam to find American soldiers listed as missing...
  
  (1984) – Tuck
• Fletch
  Fletch (film)
  Fletch is a 1985 comedy film about a wisecracking investigative newspaper reporter, Irwin M. Fletcher , who writes under the name of Jane Doe...
  
  (1985) – Dr. Joseph Dolan
• Wildcats
  Wildcats (film)
  Wildcats is a 1986 film starring Goldie Hawn and costarring Jan Hooks and Swoosie Kurtz. It is the film debut of Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. They also appeared together in White Men Can't Jump and Money Train...
  
  (1986) – Walt Coes
• Critters
  Critters (film)
  Critters is a 1986 cult science fiction film starring Dee Wallace-Stone, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush and Scott Grimes. It was directed by Stephen Herek and written by Herek, Domonic Muir and Don Keith Opper . It is the first film in the Critters series...
  
  (1986) – Harv
• The Best of Times
  The Best of Times (film)
  The Best of Times is a 1986 American film starring Robin Williams and Kurt Russell.-Plot:Robin Williams plays Jack Dundee, a banker obsessed with what he considers the most shameful moment in his life: The moment that he dropped a perfectly thrown pass in the final seconds of the 1972 high school...
  
  (1986) – Charlie
• Back to School (1986) – Coach Turnbull
• Harry and the Hendersons
  Harry and the Hendersons
  Harry and the Hendersons is a 1987 American comedy film directed and produced by William Dear, and starring John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Lainie Kazan and Don Ameche. It is the story of a family's encounter with the cryptozoological creature Bigfoot...
  
  (1987) – George Henderson Sr
• No Man's Land
  No Man's Land (1987 film)
  No Man's Land is a 1987 film directed by Peter Werner and starring D. B. Sweeney, Charlie Sheen and Randy Quaid. Brad Pitt made his acting debut in this film as an uncredited extra.-Plot:...
  
  (1987) – Capt. Haun
• Raising Arizona
  Raising Arizona
  Raising Arizona is a 1987 comedy film directed by the Coen Brothers and starring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, William Forsythe, John Goodman, Frances McDormand and Randall "Tex" Cobb. Not a blockbuster at the time of its release, it has since achieved cult status...
  
  (1987) – Machine Shop Ear-Bender
• Murder Ordained
  Murder Ordained
  Murder Ordained is 1987 Emmy-nominated CBS miniseries starring JoBeth Williams, Kathy Bates, and Keith Carradine. The telefilm, directed and co-written by Mike Robe, was inspired by real events that occurred in Emporia, Kansas. Much of the principal photography and filming occurred on location in...
  
  (1987) - Vern Humphrey
• The Milagro Beanfield War
  The Milagro Beanfield War
  The Milagro Beanfield War is a 1988 American drama film based on the John Nichols novel of the same name, the first book in a trilogy. It was directed by Robert Redford and the screenplay was written by Nichols and David S. Ward...
  
  (1988) - Govenor
• Clean and Sober
  Clean and Sober
  Clean and Sober is a 1988 American drama film directed by Glenn Gordon Caron starring Michael Keaton as a real estate agent and his trouble with substance abuse. This film was a dramatic departure from comedies for Keaton. The cast also includes Kathy Baker, M...
  
  (1988) – Richard Dirk
• War Party
  War Party (film)
  War Party is a 1988 film starring Billy Wirth and Kevin Dillon. The film, set in present day Montana, explores the tension and mistrust that can characterize interactions between Native American and White American cultures....
  
  (1988) – Colin Ditwelier
• Red Scorpion
  Red Scorpion
  Red Scorpion is a 1989 film directed by Joseph Zito starring Dolph Lundgren.-Plot:The plot centers on Lundgren's character Nikolai, a Soviet Spetsnaz-trained KGB agent who is sent to an African country where Soviet, Czechoslovakian and Cuban forces are helping the government fight an anti-communist...
  
  (1989) – Dewey Furguson
• The Mighty Quinn (1989) - Fred Miller
• Catch Me If You Can
  Catch Me If You Can (1989 film)
  Catch Me If You Can is a 1989 film starring Grant Heslov, Geoffrey Lewis, M. Emmet Walsh, music by Tangerine Dream and was the directorial debut by writer and director Stephen Sommers.-Plot:...
  
  (1989) – Johnny Phatmun
• Chattahoochee
  Chattahoochee (film)
  Chattahoochee is a 1989 film directed by Mick Jackson. The film stars Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Pamela Reed, and Ned Beatty and is based on the experiences of Chris Calhoun.-Plot:...
  
  (1989) – Morris
• Thunderground
  Thunderground
  -Plot summary:A con-artist meets a tough fighter and sees him as her ticket to a better life. The two make an agreement and head off to New Orleans to arrange a match with "the man" - the mysterious king of bare-knuckled boxing...
  
  (1989) - Wedge
• Love and Lies (1990) – Clyde Wilson
• The Flash
  The Flash (TV series)
  The Flash is a 1990 American television series that starred John Wesley Shipp as the superhero, the Flash , and co-starred Amanda Pays. The series was developed from the DC Comics characters by the writing team of Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, and produced by their company, Pet Fly Productions, in...
  
  (1990) – Henry Allen
• Narrow Margin
  Narrow Margin
  Narrow Margin is a 1990 film directed by Peter Hyams and released by TriStar Pictures, loosely based on the 1952 film noir, The Narrow Margin.-Plot:...
  
  (1990) – Sergeant Dominick Benti
• Fourth Story (1991) – Harry
• Silverfox (1991) – Charles Blankenship
• The Naked Truth
  The Naked Truth (1992 film)
  The Naked Truth is a 1993 comedy film starring Robert Caso and Kevin Schon, as well as a host of C-list celebrities such as Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lou Ferrigno, Erik Estrada, Ted Lange, Billy Barty, Yvonne De Carlo, Norman Fell, Little Richard, David Birney, M...
  
  (1992) – Garcia
• Killer Image
  Killer Image (1992 film)
  Killer Image is a 1992 independent Canadian suspense film directed by David Winning. It starred Michael Ironside as "Luther Kane" and John Pyper-Ferguson as "Max Oliver". The story centers on two brothers, one a powerful senator, one a ruthless killer. A photographer captures images of the...
  
  (1992) – Senator John Kane
• White Sands
  White Sands (film)
  White Sands is a 1992 motion picture directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Daniel Pyne for Warner Bros. The movie is about a U.S. southwestern small-town sheriff who finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation...
  
  (1992) – Bert Gibson
• Equinox
  Equinox (1992 film)
  Equinox is a 1992 film written and directed by Alan Rudolph. It stars Matthew Modine in dual roles, along with Lara Flynn Boyle, Marisa Tomei, Lori Singer and Fred Ward. The film was shot in Minnesota and Utah and is set in the fictional urban city of Empire...
  
  (1992) – Pete Petosa
• Bitter Harvest (1993) – Sheriff Bob
• The Music of Chance
  The Music of Chance (film)
  The Music of Chance is a 1993 American drama film directed by Philip Haas. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  (1993) – Caretaker Calvin Murks
• Relative Fear
  Relative Fear
  Relative Fear is a 1994 Canadian independent psychological horror film that references the 1956 film The Bad Seed...
  
  (1994) – Earl Ladelle
• Camp Nowhere
  Camp Nowhere
  Camp Nowhere is a 1994 film directed by Jonathan Prince, written by Andrew Kurtzman and Eliot Wald, and starring Jonathan Jackson, Christopher Lloyd, Melody Kay, Andrew Keegan, and Marnette Patterson. The film also features Jessica Alba in her first film role...
  
  (1994) – T.R. Polk
• The Glass Shield
  The Glass Shield
  The Glass Shield is a 1995 crime drama film starring Ice Cube, Michael Boatman and Lori Petty, directed by Charles Burnett.-Plot:Deputy John Johnson is a rookie in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and the first black deputy at the station to which he is assigned...
  
  (1994) – Hal
• Cops & Robbersons (1994)
• Criminal Hearts (1995) – Martin
• Dead Badge (1995) – Sgt. Miller Hoskins
• Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
  Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
  Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home is a 1995 family film, directed Dwight H. Little, and released by Warner Bros. under its Family Entertainment banner. It is a sequel to the 1993 film Free Willy, also starring Jason James Richter and August Schellenberg. Free Willy 3: The Rescue, was subsequently...
  
  (1995) – Bill Wilcox
• Panther
  Panther (film)
  Panther is a 1995 film directed by Mario Van Peebles, from a screenplay adapted by his father, Melvin Van Peebles, based on his book. The film dramatizes the story of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense...
  
  (1995) – Dorsett
• The Killing Jar (1996) – Sheriff Foley
• Portraits of a Killer (1996) – Raymond Garrison
• Albino Alligator
  Albino Alligator
  Albino Alligator is a 1997 film directed by Kevin Spacey in his directorial debut. It stars Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise and William Fichtner as three small-time criminals who take hostages when they are cornered by the police...
  
  (1996) – Dino
• A Time to Kill
  A Time to Kill (film)
  A Time to Kill is a 1996 film adaptation of John Grisham's 1989 legal thriller novel of the same name. Directed by Joel Schumacher, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Sandra Bullock, Samuel L...
  
  (1996) - Dr. Bass
• William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) – Apothecary
• Retroactive (1997) – Sam
• My Best Friend's Wedding
  My Best Friend's Wedding
  My Best Friend's Wedding is a 1997 romantic comedy film directed by P. J. Hogan. It stars Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz, Dermot Mulroney, Rupert Everett, and Philip Bosco.The film received mostly positive reviews from critics...
  
  (1997) – Joe O'Neal
• Twilight
  Twilight (1998 film)
  Twilight is a 1998 thriller/Neo-noir film directed by Robert Benton. It stars Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing, and James Garner...
  
  (1998) – Lester Ivar
• Erasable You (1998) – Ralph Worth
• Nightmare in Big Sky Country (1998) – Marshal Phillips
• "The Unnatural
  The Unnatural (The X-Files)
  "The Unnatural" is the nineteenth episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode first aired in the United States and Canada on April 25, 1999 on the Fox Network, and subsequently aired in the United Kingdom on Sky1. It was written and directed by lead...
  
  " (episode of The X-Files
  The X-Files
  The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
  
  , 1999) – Arthur Dales
• Wild Wild West
  Wild Wild West
  Wild Wild West is a 1999 American steampunk action-comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline , Kenneth Branagh and Salma Hayek.Similar to the original TV series it was based on, The Wild Wild West, the film features a large amount of gadgetry...
  
  (1999) – Coleman
• The Iron Giant
  The Iron Giant
  The Iron Giant is a 1999 animated film produced by Warner Bros. Animation, based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Brad Bird directed the film, which stars a voice cast of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr., Vin Diesel, Eli Marienthal, Christopher McDonald and John Mahoney...
  
  (1999) – Earl Stutz (voice)
• Monster! (1999) - Lloyd
• Eyeball Eddie (2000) – Coach Cook
• Poor White Trash
  Poor White Trash (film)
  Poor White Trash is a crime-comedy film directed by Michael Addis. The film was released on June 16. 2000 and was distributed by jointly by Hollywood Independents and Xenon Group...
  
  (2000) – Judge Pike
• Jack of Hearts (2000) – Menlo Boyce
• Christmas in the Clouds (2001) – Stu O'Malley
• "Bully for Martin" (episode of Frasier
  Frasier
  Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...
  
  , 2001) – Rich Koechner
• Snow Dogs
  Snow Dogs
  Snow Dogs is a 2002 American live-action comedy film that was released in the United States on January 18, 2002 by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Brian Levant, and stars Cuba Gooding, Jr. and James Coburn...
  
  (2002) – George Murphy
• Baggage (2003) – Sandy Westphall
• Greener Mountains (2004) – Muggs
• Christmas with the Kranks
  Christmas with the Kranks
  Christmas with the Kranks is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Joe Roth and starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis. The screenplay by Chris Columbus is based on the 2001 novel Skipping Christmas by John Grisham.-Plot:...
  
  (2004) – Walt Scheel
• Racing Stripes
  Racing Stripes
  Racing Stripes is a 2005 comedy film directed by Frederik Du Chau, the director of Quest for Camelot. Although set in Kentucky, the movie was filmed in Pietermaritzburg and Nottingham Road, South Africa.-Plot:...
  
  (2005) – Woodzie
• Man in the Chair
  Man in the Chair
  Man in the Chair is a 2007 independent film written and directed by Michael Schroeder. The film stars Christopher Plummer, Michael Angarano, M. Emmet Walsh, and Robert Wagner.-Premise:...
  
  (2007) – Mickey Hopkins
• Big Stan
  Big Stan
  Big Stan is a 2007 American comedy film produced, directed by and starring Rob Schneider. It is his directorial debut. Although released in some overseas markets during the fall of 2008, it was released straight to DVD in the U.S. on March 24, 2009. It debuted at number 17 on the DVD rental charts...
  
  (2007) – Lew Popper
• Sherman's Way
  Sherman's way
  Sherman's Way is a comedy-drama independent film starring James LeGros, Enrico Colantoni, Lacey Chabert, Donna Murphy, Brooke Nevin, and Michael Shulman. The film was directed by Craig Saavedra, written by Thomas R. Nance, and produced by Starry Night Entertainment...
  
  (2008) – Hoyt
• Chasing 3000
  Chasing 3000
  Chasing 3000 is a 2008 American independent film chronicling the cross-country travel of two boys to see the 3,000th base hit of Major League Baseball legend Roberto Clemente. It stars Trevor Morgan, Rory Culkin, Ray Liotta, and Lauren Holly.-Cast:...
  
  (2008) – Chuck Ireland
• Your Name Here (2008) – Kroger
• Haunted Echoes (2008) – Neil
• Don McKay
  Don McKay (film)
  Don McKay is a 2009 independent drama thriller film written and directed by Jake Goldberger and starring Thomas Haden Church and Elisabeth Shue...
  
  (2009) – Samuel
• The Assignment
  The Assignment (2010 film)
  The Assignment is an upcoming family film that was written and directed by Timothy J. Nelson. It was filmed in American Fork, Utah, USA on 2010. The film is slated for DVD release in December 2011. Nelson himself died during the post-production of The Assignment.-Cast:*Linsey Godfrey as Eliza*Jake...
  
  (2010) – Mr. Beudreaux
• Youth in Revolt (2010) – Mr. Saunders
• The Raven (2012) - Geselbracht

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