M Emmet Walsh, one of Hollywood’s most appreciated character stars, with functions in movies consistingof Blade Runner, Blood Simple and Knives Out, has passedaway at88 Walsh memorably played the authorities captain motivating Harrison Ford out of retirement in 1982’s Blade Runner. And he won an Independent Spirit Award for playing an amoral personal investigator in the Coen siblings’ Blood Simple. Other functions consistedof a security guard in Knives Out, and parts in My Best Friend’s Wedding, The Jerk and Serpico. Knives Out director Rian Johnson led the homages, calling him, external an “absolute legend”. “Emmet came to set with 2 things: a copy of his credits, which was a small-type single spaced double column list of contemporary classics that filled a entire page, and 2 dollar costs which he passed out to the whole team. ‘Don’t invest it and you’ll neverever be broke’.” Fellow director Edgar Wright composed on X, external that Walsh was “a completely distinct screen existence”. “The supreme character star? More than a character star?!” Wright asked. Walsh had more than 200 TELEVISION and movie credits, frequently shortlived looks
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