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Aunt Peg wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:58 pm M. Emmet Walsh, 88, well known character actor (and one of the very best): https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/m-emme ... 235947723/

Anyways, he’s got his saaandwich in one hand and the fucking head in the other.

Aunt Peg wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:30 am Another of his most memorable performances was in the little seen Fast-Walking (1982) directed by James B. Harris. He lets it all hang-out - literary!

Really wish Warners would up-grade this to Blu Ray.

Also, the Imprint edition of The Music of Chance includes a great interview with Walsh.

domino harvey wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:20 pm One of the great "That Guy"s. I'll always remember him best as the mayor of Stuckeyville, as his line that the position "ain't exactly a pressure gig" found its way into my lexicon

colinr0380 wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:24 am So many great roles. Blood Simple might be the supreme one, where he gets to be a major player in the drama, but he was always a welcome presence as a supporting actor, whether amongst the ensemble cast in Airport '77, as a horse doctor pressed into service as a human doctor, or in Alan Rudolph's Equinox. After Blood Simple he turned up as a heavy/cop (usually both simultaneously) in a lot of thrillers for a while, like White Sands, Charles Burnett's The Glass Shield or the Paul Newman film Twilight from 1998. He's also the guy who sends Deckard out on his quest in Blade Runner and has a nice late role in the 2014 film Calvary.

Though one of his bigger roles is in that great twisty thriller adaptation of a Paul Auster novel The Music of Chance.

therewillbeblus wrote:Wow, so many iconic roles.. The Jerk, Blood Simple.. but I think his performance as Keaton's sponsor in Clean and Sober is my favorite

Kracker wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:11 pm There are way too many of his performances I probably haven't even gotten to, but the one that pops into mind first for me is his Tales From the Crypt episode where he's a new retiree not taking to his boring retirement while now being pestered by all the animals his wife takes in as pets, only to solve both problems by taking up taxidermy and stuffing all her animals, and if you know the show you already know how that ends up. :-&

Marwood wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:10 pm I suppose you may be joking, but just in case you're not, the audio commentary on the MGM disc is a joke commentary. It states lots of outrageous things like that scenes were" shot upside down and backwards" and is purely for laughs. It' read by the TV actor George Ives pretending to be a film historian.