Actor who appeared in more than 220 film and television roles, Emmett Walsh, including in Blade Runner, Knives Out and the Coen brothers’ films Blood Simple and Raising Arizona, died at the age of 88.
Walsh’s manager, Sandy Joseph, confirmed to Variety that he died on Tuesday in Vermont.
Born in New York in 1935 and raised in Vermont, Walsh landed his first uncredited film role – as an extra in the film Midnight Cowboy – and his first acclaimed film role in Alice’s Restaurant, both in 1969, notes Britain’s Guardian.
He played a sportswriter in Paul Newman’s sports comedy Slap Shot (1977), Dustin Hoffman’s probation officer in Straight Time (1978), the sniper who hunts Steve Martin in The Jerk (1979) and the LAPD chief which brings Harrison Ford out of retirement in Blade Runner (1982).
Walsh told The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 that Blade Runner was the film he was asked about the most, saying that after seeing the final product: “We didn’t know what to say or think or do! We didn’t know what the hell we had done! The only one who seemed to get it was Ridley».
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