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Walter Burke is a Actor American born on 25 august 1908 at Brooklyn (USA)
Walter Lawrence Burke (August 25, 1908 – August 4, 1984) was a prolific American character actor, of stage, film, and television of Irish descent. His small stature and distinctive voice and face made him easily recognizable in even the most minor of roles.
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Birth name Walter Lawrence Burke
Nationality USA
Birth 25 august 1908 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 4 august 1984 (at 75 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 25 august 1908 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 4 august 1984 (at 75 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
Biography
Burke split most of his later life between Hollywood, where he worked, and his horse ranch in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. While back east, he would sometimes teach dramatics at a local college.Usually with
Filmography of Walter Burke (26 films)
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The Hustler of Muscle Beach (1980)
Directed by Jonathan Kaplan
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films
Actors Richard Hatch, Joe Santos, Kay Lenz, Jeanette Nolan, Jack Carter, Veronica Hamel
Roles Priest
Rating58%
The Stone Killer (1973)
, 1h31Directed by Michael Winner
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Jack Colvin, Paul Koslo, Norman Fell, Stuart Margolin
Roles J D
Rating61%
The film involves a plot by a present day (1973) Mafia don (Martin Balsam) to avenge the killings of a group of Mafia dons back in 1931 ("The Night of Sicilian Vespers") with a bold nationwide counter-strike against most of the current Italian and Jewish syndicate heads using teams of Vietnam vets instead of Mafia hit men.
Goodnight, My Love (1972)
, 1h13Directed by Peter Hyams
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Richard Boone, Barbara Bain, Michael Dunn, Victor Buono, Gianni Russo, John Quade
Roles Wheezer
Rating66%
Chandler (1971)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Mitch Ryan, Gordon Pinsent, Charles McGraw, Richard Loo
Roles Zeno
Rating44%
In a deliberate throwback to 1940s films noir, a former private eye from that period, Chandler, takes up his old work again, and finds himself constantly driving old cars. He is ostensibly hired by the government to protect a witness, Katherine Creighton, from a gangland leader, John Melchior, who wants to kill her. But Chandler is in fact working for a corrupt government agent, Ross J. Carmady, who is using him as a dupe so that Carmady can murder Melchior and put his own double agent at the top of the racket.
, 1h33Directed by Burt Kennedy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, John Dehner, Marie Windsor
Roles Morris
Rating67%
Latigo Smith (Garner), a gambler and confidence man, is traveling by train in frontier-era Colorado with the rich and powerful Goldie (Marie Windsor). Goldie is besotted with Latigo and wants desperately to marry him, a fate that he wants no part of. He manages to slip off the train at Purgatory, a jerkwater mining town. Assessing the situation, he discovers that two rival companies of miners, led by Taylor Barton (Harry Morgan) and Colonel Ames (John Dehner), are racing each other to find a "mother lode" of gold buried somewhere nearby. Massive dynamite blasts periodically rock the town to its foundations, creating or embellishing various moments of comic relief throughout the film.
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
, 1h32Directed by Burt Kennedy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, Bruce Dern
Roles Fred Johnson
Rating74%
The Old West frontier town of Calendar, Colorado, springs up almost overnight when the rather klutzy and hotheaded Prudy Perkins (Joan Hackett) discovers gold in a freshly dug grave during a funeral. Her father Olly (Harry Morgan) becomes mayor of the new settlement. He and the other members of the town council bemoan the twin facts that the place has become a drunken round-the-clock free-for-all, and that to ship out all the gold they are mining, they must pay a hefty fee to the Danbys, a family of ranchers/bandits who control the only shipping route out of town. Most people are too busy digging to take time out to be sheriff, and those who are willing to put down their shovels quickly die.
Double Trouble (1967)
, 1h30Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, John Williams, Michael Murphy, Yvonne Romain, Chips Rafferty, Norman Rossington
Roles Mate
Rating51%
Lorsque le chanteur Guy Lambert va en tournée en Europe, il est poursuivi par deux belles femmes, maladroit voleurs de bijoux, et un mystérieux tueur.
The President's Analyst (1967)
, 1h43Directed by Theodore J. Flicker
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Spy
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Political films
Actors James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Pat Harrington, Jr., Eduard Franz, Will Geer
Roles Henry Lux
Rating67%
Dr. Sidney Schaefer (James Coburn), a psychiatrist, is chosen by the U.S. Government to act as the President’s top-secret personal psychoanalyst, through Don Masters (Godfrey Cambridge), a Central Enquiries Agency (CEA) assassin who vetted Dr. Schaefer while undergoing psychoanalysis. The decision to choose Schaefer is against the advice of Henry Lux (Walter Burke), the director of the all-male, under-five-foot-six-inch Federal Bureau of Regulation (FBR). (Lux, like Hoover, was once a famous line of vacuum cleaner.) Dr. Schaefer is given a home in affluent Georgetown and assigned a comfortable office connected to the White House by a tunnel. From this location he is to be on call at all hours to fit the President's hectic schedule. However, the President's Analyst has one problem: There is no one to whom he can talk about the President's ultra-top-secret and personal problems. As he steadily becomes overwhelmed by stress, Schaefer begins to feel that he is being watched everywhere — which is actually true — until he becomes clinically paranoid; he even suspects his sweet girlfriend Nan (Joan Delaney) of spying on him — also true — as an agent of the CEA.
Stranger on the Run (1967)
, 1h37Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Western
Actors Henry Fonda, Anne Baxter, Michael Parks, Dan Duryea, Sal Mineo, Lloyd Bochner
Roles Abraham Berk
Rating62%
In the film, former inmate and alcoholic Ben Chamberlain (Fonda) comes to a town enquiring about a woman. When she is found dead, Sheriff McKay (Parks), at the suggestion of his friend Hotchkiss (Dan Duryea), organises a human hunting party, thinking that Chamberlain is the culprit, but in reality, he had no connection with the murder.
The Plainsman (1966)
, 1h32Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Don Murray, Guy Stockwell, Abby Dalton, Leslie Nielsen, Bradford Dillman, Henry Silva
Roles Abe Ireland
Rating52%
After being taken prisoner by Crazy Knife and a band of Cheyenne warriors, Wild Bill Hickok's life is spared by Chief Black Kettle, but when he is set free, it is without his horse and his boots.
The Plainsman (1966)
, 1h32Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Don Murray, Guy Stockwell, Abby Dalton, Bradford Dillman, Henry Silva, Leslie Nielsen
Roles Abe Ireland
Rating52%
Tandis que la Guerre de Sécession prend fin, Wild Bill Hickok est heureux d'être libre et de pouvoir rentrer chez lui après quatre années passées à servir au front. Alors qu'il est sur le chemin du retour, il est attaqué par Crazy Knife et sa bande de Cheyennes mais est secouru par le chef Black Kettle qu'il a connu avant le conflit. Hickok apprend que les Cheyennes se font livrer des armes par un homme d'affaires peu scrupuleux...
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on science fiction novels, Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Joan Freeman, Walter Burke, Peter Forster
Roles Lory Filch
Rating61%
Phileas Fogg III (Jay Sheffield), great-grandson of the original Phileas Fogg, accepts a bet to duplicate his great-grandfather's famous trip around the world in response to a challenge made by Randolph Stuart III, the descendant of the original Fogg's nemesis. Unbeknownst to anyone, however, "Stuart" is the infamous con man Vicker Cavendish (Peter Forster) who made the bet in order to cover up his robbing the bank of England by framing Fogg for the crime.
The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
, 1h47Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors James Garner, Lee Remick, Phil Harris, Chill Wills, Jim Backus, Elliott Reid
Roles Billy Joe (uncredited)
Rating64%
Molly Thatcher (Lee Remick) is a stockbroker languishing in a company run by sexist Bullard Bear (Jim Backus). When the company does poorly, he has to fire somebody. Molly is the obvious choice, but to avoid charges of sex discrimination, he assigns her the seemingly impossible task of unloading shares of an obscure company called Universal Widgets, figuring that when she fails, he will have an excuse to dismiss her.
How the West Was Won (1962)
, 2h35Directed by John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors James Stewart, Carroll Baker, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Carolyn Jones
Roles Wagon Poker Player (uncredited)
Rating69%
Zebulon Prescott (Karl Malden) and his family set out west for the frontier via the Erie Canal, the “west” at this time being the Illinois country. On the journey, they meet mountain man Linus Rawlings (James Stewart), who is traveling east to Pittsburgh to trade his furs. He and Zebulon's daughter Eve (Carroll Baker) are attracted to each other, but Linus is not ready to settle down.
Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
, 1h34Directed by Nathan Juran
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Kerwin Mathews, Judi Meredith, Torin Thatcher, Don Beddoe, Walter Burke, Anna Lee
Roles Gama
Rating62%
In the Duchy of Cornwall of fairy tale days, the malevolent sorcerer Pendragon, ruler of giants, witches and all creatures evil, was defeated by the wizard, Herla, and along with his disciples exiled to an uncharted, unknown island. Pendragon however vows revenge and Herla dies, meaning there is no longer a threat against Pendragon. Years later the kingdom celebrates the crowning of Princess Elaine (Judi Meredith). The reception goes well until Pendragon (Torin Thatcher) arrives disguised as a foreign lord. He gives her a magic toy that is actually Cormoran the giant, and which is given to the Princess. When Elaine is asleep, Pendragon uses his magic to make the giant grow to full size and capture Elaine. The castle guards are too late to stop the giant. Cormoran takes Elaine to a ship, but before it can sail a brave farm lad named Jack (Kerwin Mathews) rescues Elaine. Jack then fights the giant and kills it. In gratitude, King Mark (Dayton Lummis) makes Jack her protector and entrusts him to safely guide her to a convent across the sea. However he does not know that Elaine's waiting-maid, Lady Constance (Anna Lee), is a witch in league with Pendragon and reveals the King's plan to him.