The actor’s manager, Sandy Joseph, confirmed that M. Emmet Walsh died Tuesday in Vermont. He was 88 years old. According to Deadline, the cardiac arrest occurred at Curbs Memorial Hospital in St. Albans.
M. Emmet Walsh is dead. This is why the “Stanton-Walsh rule” was created.
M. Emmet Walsh was a character actor, his filmography includes over 10 titles. Film critic Roger Ebert coined the “Stanton-Walsh rule.” It stated that no film starring Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role could be completely bad – although he admitted that this was not a 100% rule.
In Ridley Scott’s 1982 film “Blade Runner,” Walsh played the Los Angeles police chief, and in the Coen brothers’ directorial debut, “Deadly Simple,” he played mischievous private detective Loren Visser. His other roles include, for example, a corrupt sheriff in the 1986 horror film “Critters” and a small role as a security guard in “Knives Out”. He played, among others, including in “Little Big Man” with Dustin Hoffman, “So What, Doc?” with Ryan O’Neal and Barbra Streisand, “On Ice” with Paul Newman and “Szajbusie” with Steve Martin or “My Boyfriend is Getting Married” with Julia Roberts.
Director of the film “Knives Out: The Absolute Legend
“Knives Out” director Rian Johnson commemorated the actor on social media, saying: “Emmet came to the set with two things: a copy of his movies’ end credits, which was a single column in small font and a list of modern classics that took up an entire page, and two-dollar bills , which he handed out to the entire crew. ‘Don’t spend it and you’ll never go broke. Absolute legend.’
He also appeared on television. He could be seen, for example, in the TV series “Frasier”. “The X-Files” or “New York Cops”. As a voice actor, he worked on such projects as “The Steel Giant” and “Pound Puppies”. He was also a narrator of documentaries.
Source: Gazeta
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