M Emmet Walsh, Blade Runner, Blood Simple and Knives Out actor, dies aged 88

M Emmet Walsh at the premiere of Knives Out in 2019 in California. Walsh’s manager said the actor’s cause of death was cardiac arrest.M Emmet Walsh at the premiere of Knives Out in 2019 in California. Walsh’s manager said the actor’s cause of death was cardiac arrest.M Emmet Walsh, the character actor who appeared in more than 220 film and television roles including Blade Runner, Knives Out, and the Coen brothers’ films Blood Simple and Raising Arizona, has died aged 88.

He played a sportswriter in the Paul Newman sports comedy Slap Shot , Dustin Hoffman’s parole officer in Straight Time , the sniper hunting down Steve Martin in The Jerk , and the LAPD boss who brings Harrison Ford out of retirement inthat Blade Runner was the film he was asked about the most, saying that after he saw the finished product: “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.

He also played small roles in Fletch and horror flick Critters , as well as Nicolas Cage’s chatty co-worker in Raising Arizona , John Lithgow’s father in Harry and the Hendersons , and Michael Keaton’s sponsor in Clean and Sober . He also appeared in Romeo + Juliet , My Best Friend’s Wedding , The Iron Giant , Calvary and Knives Out .

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