M. Emmet Walsh

Walsh, d'ascendencia irlandesa,^[5][6] nació en Ogdensburg, Nueva York, fíu de Agnes Kathrine (Sullivan) y Harry Maurice Walsh, Sr., un axente d'aduanes.^[7] Creció nun área rural de Vermont.^[5] Dempués d'asistir a la Universidá de Clarkson, sale a la lluz nel drama criminal de 1978, Straight Time, onde fixo'l papel d'un sádicu oficial de llibertá condicional. Unu de los sos papeles más emponderaos foi'l de Bryant na clásica película de cultu Blade Runner, dirixida por Ridley Scott. Otru de los papeles más notables ye'l de detective priváu en Blood Simple (1984) de los hermanos Coen, actuación que-y valió'l premiu Independent Spirit Award como Meyor actor en 1986. Tuvo apaiciones como convidáu na serie Home Improvement, faciendo del suegru del protagonista. En Christmas with the Kranks (2004) fixo'l papel d'unu de los vecinos.

Según la regla Stanton-Walsh del críticu Roger Ebert: "nenguna película con Harry Dean Stanton o M. Emmet Walsh como actores de repartu puede ser totalmente mala".^[8] Más tarde, Ebert almitió qu'esta regla romper con Wild Wild West (1999).

• Alice's Restaurant (1969) – Group W Sergeant
• Midnight Cowboy (1969) – Bus Passenger
• Little Big Man (1970) – Shotgun Guard
• Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) - Aide to Xeneral Winthrop
• What's Up, Doc? (1972) – Arresting Officer
• Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972) – Mr. Wendel
• Kid Blue (1973) – Jonesy
• Serpico (1973) – Chief Ghallagher
• Doctor Dan (1974) – Mr. Wallace
• At Long Last Love (1975) – Harold
• Crime Club (1975) – Lt. Jack Doyle
• The Invasion of Johnson County (1976) – Irvine
• Mikey and Nicky (1976) – Bus Driver
• Slap Shot (1976) – Dickie Dunn
• Airport '77 (1977) – Dr. Williams
• Red Alert (1977) – Sherrif Sweeney
• Superdome (1978) – Whitley
• A Question of Guilt (1978) – McCarthy
• Straight Time (1978) – Earl Frank
• Dear Detective (1979) – Capt. Gorcey
• The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) – Wally Cantrell
• The Jerk (1979) – Madman
• Brubaker (1980) – C.P.

Woodward * Raise the Titanic (1980) – Master Chief Walker

• Ordinary People (1980) – Coach Salen
• Black Roads (1981) – Arthur
• Reds (1981) - Speaker at Lliberal Club
• Cannery Row (1982) – Mack
• The Escape Artist (1982) – Fritz
• Blade Runner (1982) – Bryant
• Fast-Walking (1983) – Sergeant Sanger
• Silkwood (1983) – Walt Yarborough
• Courage (1984) – Colonel Crouse
• Grandview, U.S.A. (1984) – Mr. Clark
• The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) – Burns
• Blood Simple (1984) – Loren Visser
• Missing in Action (1984) – Tuck
• Fletch (1985) – Dr. Joseph Dolan
• Wildcats (1986) – Walt Coes
• Critters (1986) – Harv
• The Best of Times (1986) - Charlie
• Back to School (1986) – Coach Turnbull
• Harry and the Hendersons (1987) – George Henderson Sr.
• No Man's Land (1987) – Capt. Haun
• Raising Arizona (1987) – Machine Shop Ear-Bender
• Clean and Sober (1988) – Richard Dirks
• War Party (1988) – Colin Ditwelier
• Red Scorpion (1989) – Dewey Furguson
• Catch Me... If You Can (1989) - Johnny Phatmun
• Chattahoochee (1989) – Morris
• Love and Lies (1990) – Clyde Wilson
• The Flash (1990) – Henry Allen
• Narrow Margin (1990)- Sergeant Dominick Benti
• Fourth Story (1991) – Harry
• Silverfox (1991) – Charles Blankenship
• The Naked Truth (1992) – Garcia
• Killer Image (1992) – John Kane
• White Sands (1992) – Bert Gibson
• Equinox (1992) - Pete Petosa
• Bitter Harvest (1993) – Sherrif Bob
• The Music of Chance (1993) – Caretaker Calvin Murks
• Relative Fear (1994) – Earl Ladelle
• Camp Nowhere (1994) – T.R. Polk
• The Glass Shield (1994) – Hal
• Cops & Robbersons (1994)
• Criminal Hearts (1995) – Martin
• Dead Badge (1995) – Sgt. Miller Hoskins
• Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995) – Bill Wilcox
• Panther (1995) – Dorsett
• The Killing Jar (1996) – Sherrif Foley
• Portraits of a Killer (1996) – Raymond Garrison
• Albino Alligator (1996) – Dino
• William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) – Apothecary
• Retroactive (1997) – Sam
• My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) – Joe O'Neal
• Twilight (1998) – Lester Ivar
• Erasable You (1998) – Ralph Worth
• Nightmare in Big Sky Country (1998) – Marshal Phillips
• "The Unnatural" (capítulu de The X-Files, 1999) – Arthur Daleos
• Wild Wild West (1999) – Coleman
• The Iron Giant (1999) – Earl Stutz (voz)
• Eyeball Eddie (2000) – Coach Cook
• Poor White Trash (2000) – Judge Pike
• Jack of Hearts (2000) – Menlo Boyce
• Christmas in the Clouds (2001) – Stu O'Malley
• Snow Dogs (2002) – George Murphy
• Baggage (2003) – Sandy Westphall
• Greener Mountains (2004) – Muggs
• Christmas with the Kranks (2004) – Walt Sheel
• Racing Stripes (2005) – Woodzie
• Man in the Chair (2007) – Mickey Hopkins
• Big Stan (2007) – Lew Popper
• Sherman's Way (2008) – Hoyt
• Chasing 3000 (2008) – Chuck Ireland
• Your Name Here (2008) – Kroger
• Haunted Echoes (2008) – Neil
• The Assignment (2009) – Mr. Beudreaux
• Youth in Revolt (2009)
• Don McKay (2009) – Samuel