Knives Out and Blade Runner actor M Emmet Walsh dies aged 88
Knives Out and Blade Runner actor M Emmet Walsh has died aged 88, his manager has confirmed.
The Hollywood star appeared in over 200 films and television series in his six-decade career before his death, including My Best Friend's Wedding alongside Julia Roberts.
Walsh died on Tuesday of a cardiac arrest at Kerbs Memorial Hospital in St. Albans, Vermont, his manager Sandy Joseph told Metro.co.uk.
He is best known for portraying Captain Bryant in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, alongside Harrison Ford, and Mr Proofroc in the 2019 Daniel Craig-starring Knives Out.
In 2017, Walsh spoke about his experience filming Blade Runner and joked that only Ridley understood the premise.
'We all sat there and it ended. And nothing,' he revealed while laughing in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
'We didn't know what to say or to think or do! We didn't know what in the hell we had done! The only one who seemed to get it was Ridley.'
Walsh was also in the Steve Martin film The Jerk, the Baz Luhrmann classic Romeo + Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Redford's feature directorial debut Ordinary People and Calvary with Brendan Gleeson.
Most recently, he was in the Western film Outlaw Posse, which was released this year and starred Whoopi Goldberg.
On the small screen, Walsh appeared on TV shows such as NYPD, Starsky and Hutch, The X Files, Frasier, The Righteous Gemstones and American Gigolo in 2022.
Walsh was born in Ogdensburg, New York, the son of a customs agent and later studied business administration at Clarkson University.
After his student years, he pursued a career in Hollywood, first securing small roles in the 60s films Alice's Restaurant, Midnight Cowboy, and Stiletto.
He came to prominence in the iconic 1977 hockey comedy film Slap Shot, which starred Paul Newman, and the 1978 crime movie Straight Time.
Popular with acclaimed directors, Walsh went on to collaborate with the likes ofCoen Brothers on Raising Arizona and Blood Spirit, and Mike Nichols on Silkwood, who cast Meryl Streep in the lead role.
Metro.co.uk has contacted Walsh's rep.
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