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Veteran actor M Emmet Walsh, who starred in Blade Runner and Knives Out, has died aged 88.<\/p>\n
The Americanstar died from a cardiac arrest on Tuesday at Kerbs Memorial Hospital in St Albans, Vermont, a statement from his manager confirmed.<\/p>\n
During his six-decade career, Walsh played a variety of roles, including Harrison Ford’s LAPD boss in Sir Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner.<\/p>\n
He played an unscrupulous private detective in Ethan Coen’s Blood Simple two years later, for which he would win the first Film Independent Spirit Award for best male lead.<\/p>\n
He also played Dermot Mulroney’s father in My Best Friend’s Wedding, which also starred Julia Roberts, and Dustin Hoffman’s belligerent parole officer in Straight Time.<\/p>\n
Film critic Roger Ebert once observed that “no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad”.<\/p>\n
Born Michael Emmet Walsh, his body of work includes 119 films and 250 TV productions, with recent roles including playing an elderly security guard in Rian Johnson’s 2019 murder-mystery comedy Knives Out, which starred Daniel Craig.<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News:<\/strong> Johnson was among those paying tribute, writing on X: “Emmet came to set with 2 things: a copy of his credits, which was a small-type single spaced double column list of modern classics that filled a whole page, & two-dollar bills which he passed out to the entire crew.<\/p>\n “‘Don’t spend it and you’ll never be broke.’ Absolute legend.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Veteran actor M Emmet Walsh, who starred in Blade Runner and Knives Out, has died aged 88. The Americanstar died from a cardiac arrest on Tuesday at Kerbs Memorial Hospital in St Albans, Vermont, a statement from his manager confirmed. During his six-decade career, Walsh played a variety of roles, including Harrison Ford’s LAPD …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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