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The Big Picture M. Emmet Walsh, the character actor who graced over 100 movies with his distinctive presence, has died. Walsh died of cardiac arrest in St. Albans, Vermont; he was 88. Michael Emmet Walsh was born on March 22, 1935, in Ogdensburg, New York, and grew up in Swanton, Vermont. He attended Clarkson University and emerged with a marketing degree, but he soon turned his hand to acting.
Walsh made his TV debut on an episode of The Doctors, and made his first movie appearance as an uncredited bus passenger in the crushing final scene of Midnight Cowboy.
What Was M. Emmet Walsh Known For? Close His biggest role came in the 1984 neo-noir Blood Simple, which was the directorial debut of Joel and Ethan Coen. In it, he plays Loren Visser, a diabolical private eye who is hired to investigate an unfaithful wife , but instead sets off a chain reaction of murder and mayhem. The low-budget movie launched the Coens into indie-film stardom, and made Walsh a sought-after character actor.
Although Walsh never won an Oscar or an Emmy, he did merit an enormous honor from late movie critic Roger Ebert. One of Ebert's rules for movie-watching was what he called the "Stanton-Walsh Rule," which stated that "no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad".
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