#M. Emmet Walsh

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Brubaker (1980) - M. Emmet Walsh 

Robert Redford is a handsome man, but I’m picking Walsh over him.

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R.I.P. M. Emmet Walsh

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I’m sorry to learn of his passing. Great character actor. M. Emmet Walsh was everywhere. May he R.I.P.

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Rest in peace, M. Emmet Walsh (1935-2024).

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"I Say a Little Prayer" scene from My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)

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(via M. Emmet Walsh, Character Actor Who Always Stood Out, Dies at 88 - The New York Times)

A performance by Mr. Walsh in “Straight Time” led to a role in “Blood Simple” (1984), the first feature film by Joel and Ethan Coen.

...The most enduring praise Mr. Walsh received also came from Mr. Ebert: He coined the Stanton-Walsh Rule, which asserted that “no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.”

In “Straight Time,” a 1978 film featuring both Mr. Stanton and Mr. Walsh, Mr. Walsh played a patronizing parole officer to Dustin Hoffman’s teetering ex-con. Mr. Walsh’s performance caught the eye of two brothers who aspired to be auteurs and were writing their first feature-film script.

The unknown Joel and Ethan Coen wrote the pivotal character of a detective in “Blood Simple” for Mr. Walsh. To their surprise, and despite offering little more in compensation than a per diem stipend, he accepted the role.

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Down Here You're On Your Own - M. Emmet Walsh Monologue

Farewell to one of the greats.

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Blood Simple (1984) | dir. joel & ethan coen

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Top 10 Actors 2024

A new year, so I thought I’d post my updated actors I’d like fuck list.

#10. M. Emmet Walsh

A beloved character actor with a long, respectable career with over 200 films and television series. Sure he’s getting a little long in the tooth, but I’d still smash.

WHAT? This guy gave me a lot of j/o material over the years.

#9. Tim Hooper

The only guy on this list I KNOW I have a shot with as he’s gay.

#8. Dakin Matthews

An American actor, playwright, theatre director, and theatrical scholar who has such a cute face making him annoyingly adorable. Dakin has that perfect ‘Grandpa next door… that like to fuck’ look.

#7. Mark Addy

Mark Addy… DAMN. I need a few hours alone with him.

#6. Brett Rice

He’s tall, husky, handsome with a gravelly voice and he quite possibly have an ass that I can work with. Damn right he’s on my to do list. How could I not want to fuck him.

#5. Peter Gerety

An American actor who I’ve been a fan of his for years and every time I saw him on TV I wanted to fuck him silly.

#4. Jack McGee

An American television and film character actor who has appeared in over 100 films and television series. All in all, he’s basically a young Charles Durning, another hot chubby daddy I admired.

#3. Colin Baker

An English actor who played the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1984 to 1986. Discovered him recently and he’s all I can think about now.

#2. Gary Basaraba

Handsome face, hairy, tall husky physique and… that ass… Now that John Goodman has gone thin on us, it’s time we made Gary Basaraba our king!

#1. Brendan Gleeson

An Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two BIFA’s, and a Primetime Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award, five times for a Golden Globe Award and once for an Academy Award, but all that pales in comparison in being #1 one on my list. My #1 one ginger daddy.

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Blood Simple (1984) dir. Joel Coen cine. Barry Sonnenfeld

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Gutter Garbs has released a Critters shirt designed by Matthew Skiff available through Monday, June 10. Priced at $30, it will ship the week of July 7.

[notforemmetophobes]

The Glass Shield (1994) - M. Emmet Walsh 

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M. Emmet Walsh

Physique: Husky Build Height: 5'10" (1.78 m)

Michael Emmet Walsh (March 22, 1935 – March 19, 2024; aged 88) was an American character actor who appeared in over 200 films and television series, including small but important supporting roles such as Earl Frank in Straight Time (1978), the Madman in The Jerk (1979), Captain Bryant in Blade Runner (1982), Harv in Critters (1986), and Walt Scheel in Christmas with the Kranks (2004). He starred as private detective Loren Visser in Blood Simple (1984), the Coen Brothers' first film for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.

With his paunchy physique, retreating hairline, ruddy hangdog face, and flat but chilling cadence, Mr. Walsh made a name for himself as one of America’s pre-eminent and hardest working character actors in the business. More importantly, He wasn't shy about taking his clothes off in front of the camera as there are many television shows and movies where he has done so. Like in Straight Time in which he's handcuffed to a fence in the middle of a busy freeway, then gets pantsed and left there with his ass out to see for passing traffic. Look closely and see some backsack!

While flesh fiends of the world will probably lament the lack of flesh shown from Walsh in the decades since the 2010s. Nonetheless, his acting career has continued to flourish both on the boob tube and silver screen. You can see him as a silver fox in recent flicks like Shifting Gears, Change in the Air, Faith, Hope and Love, Raising Buchanan, Knives Out, The Mimic and The Immaculate Room. TV series with Mr. Walsh include Sneaky Pete and The Righteous Gemstones. We wish this dude would shed those pants and underwear and show off his righteous gemstones sometime in the very near future!

Walsh died from a cardiac arrest on March 19, 2024, at the age of 88, three days before his 89th birthday. He is survived by his niece, nephew and two grandnephews. I have been in lust with this man for longer than I can remember, but realistically it wasn't until at least 1996. I know little about his private life, just that he never married and most likely straight. I will not speculate about his private life either. I am secure in the knowledge that he loved me and was going to marry me. He just didn't know any of that yet.

RECOMMENDATIONS: (1970) The Traveling Executioner - Rear nudity. (1978) Straight Time - Rear nudity. Starsky and Hutch (TV Series) - The Action (1978) - Shirtless. (1982) Fast Walking - Shirtless, full frontal, rear nudity, sex scene. ABC Afterschool Specials (TV Series) - The Woman Who Willed a Miracle (1983) - Shirtless pool scene. (1984) Missing In Action - Shirtless bed scene. (1984) Scandalous - Shirtless bed scene. (1992) Killer Image - Shirtless scene. The Outer Limits (TV Series) - The Refuge (1996) - Open shirt. (2001) Christmas in the Clouds - Shirtless shower scene. (2007) Big Stan - Shirtless scene. (2007) Man in the Chair - Shirtless scene. (2019) South of Bix - Shirtless scene.

And that’s not including some with him just in his underwear.

[citizenscreen]

M. Emmet Walsh would have celebrated a birthday today #botd

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Aw, we lost the second of the Arthur Dales brothers. Rest in peace M. Emmet Walsh. 💔

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Straight Time (1978) Ulu Grosbard

March 22nd 2024