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Walt Gorney is a Actor American born on 12 april 1912 at Buczkowice (Pologne)

Walt Gorney

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Birth name Walter Gorney
Nationality USA
Birth 12 april 1912 at Buczkowice (Pologne)
Death 5 march 2004 (at 91 years) at New York City (USA)

Walter Gorney (April 12, 1912 – March 5, 2004) was an American actor. He may have been best-known as "Crazy Ralph", the drunken old man who warns "You're all doomed!" in the 1980 hit horror movie Friday the 13th. He reprised the role in Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) and had an uncredited role as the narrator for the prologue to Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988), making him the first actor in Friday the 13th history to have two different roles in the franchise.

Gorney immigrated to the United States when he was ten years old with his family. His other film credits include Endless Love (1981), Trading Places (1983), Easy Money (1983), his final role was in the 1986 comedy movie Seize the Day.

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Filmography of Walt Gorney (14 films)

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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, 1h30
Directed by John Carl Buechler
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Transport films, Serial killer films, Road movies
Actors Lar Park-Lincoln, Kevin Spirtas, Susan Jennifer Sullivan, Susan Blu, Terry Kiser, Kane Hodder
Roles Opening Narrator (voice)
Rating52% 2.602432.602432.602432.602432.60243
Months after the conclusion of the previous film, 7-year old Tina Shepard hears her alcoholic father physically abusing her mother. The emotional trauma unlocks Tina's previously latent telekinetic powers, which result in her father's death at the bottom of Crystal Lake.
Seize the Day, 1h33
Directed by Fielder Cook
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Robin Williams, Jerry Stiller, Louis Guss, John Fiedler, Joseph Wiseman, Richard B. Shull
Roles Panhandler
Rating57% 2.8983752.8983752.8983752.8983752.898375
After losing his job, his girlfriend, and his sanity, Salesman Tommy Wilhelm (Williams) packs up for New York City to try to repair the pieces of his broken life. His skill as a salesman comes naturally, but his strained relationship with his father (Joseph Wiseman) certainly does not. Tommy must face the father he never really knew while trying to balance the new life that he attempts to carve out for himself.
Nothing Lasts Forever, 1h22
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Zach Galligan, Lauren Tom, Sam Jaffe, Bill Murray, Imogene Coca, Dan Aykroyd
Roles Stage Manager
Rating62% 3.1007953.1007953.1007953.1007953.100795
The film opens to Adam Beckett (Zach Galligan) reluctantly performing as a purported pianist to an audience in New York City. When Beckett gives away that he is using a player piano, the outraged crowd storms the stage and wraps Beckett with the piano rolls. After fleeing to Europe, Adam is accosted on a train by Swedish architect, to whom he explains his stymied dreams of becoming an artist. After encouragement from the architect, Adam resolves to return to America. Upon returning, he discovers that the Port Authority has taken control of New York and is restricting entry into the city.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, 1h37
Directed by Joseph Zito
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Transport films, Serial killer films, Road movies
Actors Kimberly Beck, Corey Feldman, Peter Barton, Crispin Glover, Tom Everett, Ted White
Roles Crazy Ralph (archive footage)
Rating60% 3.0011253.0011253.0011253.0011253.001125
The night after the events of previous film paramedics clean up the remains left by psychopathic killer Jason Voorhees and deliver him to the county morgue, where the mortician Axel fails to notice signs that Jason is breathing. After escaping cold storage, Jason slices Axel's neck with a hacksaw and stabs nurse Robbie with a scalpel.
Trading Places, 1h54
Directed by John Landis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Christmas films
Actors Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis
Roles Duke Domestic
Rating74% 3.7471653.7471653.7471653.7471653.747165
Duke brothers Randolph (Ralph Bellamy) and Mortimer (Don Ameche) own a successful commodities brokerage in Philadelphia. Holding opposing views on the issue of nature versus nurture, they make a wager of the "usual amount" and agree to conduct an experiment switching the lives of two people at opposite sides of the social hierarchy and observing the results. They witness an encounter between their managing director—the well-mannered and educated Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), engaged to the Dukes' grand-niece Penelope—and a poor street hustler named Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy); Valentine is arrested at Winthorpe's insistence because of a suspected robbery attempt. The Dukes decide to use the two men for their experiment.
Easy Money
Easy Money (1983)
, 1h35
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Candice Azzara, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Val Avery
Roles Monahan's Security Guard
Rating61% 3.099163.099163.099163.099163.09916
Montgomery "Monty" Capuletti (Rodney Dangerfield) is a hard-living, heavy-drinking, pot-smoking, gambling family man who makes his living as a baby photographer in New Dorp, Staten Island. He loves his wife Rose (Candy Azzara) but has a very tense relationship with his wealthy, snobbish mother-in-law, Mrs. Monahan (Geraldine Fitzgerald), who runs a successful department store chain and hates the way Monty acts and lives (the film lightly touches on ethnic rivalry---Dangerfield's character is a stereotype of Italians often invoked by the Irish, while his wife's family represent the more puritanical, staid lace curtain Irish stereotypes).
Friday the 13th Part 2, 1h27
Directed by Steve Miner, Sean S. Cunningham
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime, Slasher
Themes Transport films, Serial killer films, Road movies
Actors Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer, Walt Gorney, Stuart Charno
Roles Crazy Ralph
Rating61% 3.0509753.0509753.0509753.0509753.050975
Two months after the events of the first film, Alice Hardy, the sole survivor of the 1979 killing spree, is recovering from her trauma. In her apartment, she finds the head of Pamela Voorhees in her refrigerator and is brutally murdered by an unseen assailant with an ice pick to her temple.
Endless Love, 1h56
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray, Richard Kiley, Beatrice Straight
Roles Passerby
Rating49% 2.4568652.4568652.4568652.4568652.456865
In suburban Chicago, teenagers Jade Butterfield (Brooke Shields) and David Axelrod (Martin Hewitt) fall in love after they are introduced by Jade's brother Keith (James Spader). Jade's family is known in their community for a bohemian lifestyle, allowing them to develop an all-consuming and passionate relationship; including allowing the two to make love in Jade's bedroom. In contrast to the openness of her family, David's home life is dull; his parents are wealthy political activists who are not actively involved in his life.
Friday the 13th, 1h32
Directed by Sean S. Cunningham
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Slasher
Themes Transport films, Serial killer films, Road movies
Actors Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Kevin Bacon, Rex Everhart
Roles Crazy Ralph
Rating63% 3.199983.199983.199983.199983.19998
In the summer of 1958, two camp counselors, Barry and Claudette, sneak away from a campfire to have sex. An unknown assailant follows them and is recognized before brutally attacking and killing them.
Nunzio
Nunzio (1978)
, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors David Proval, Morgana King, Joe Spinell, Tovah Feldshuh, William Hickey, Larry Joshua
Rating68% 3.422443.422443.422443.422443.42244
Nunzio Sabatino (David Proval) is a grown man with the demeanor of a young child. He lives at home with his doting mother (Morgana King) and has a job as a bicycle delivery man for Angelo (Joe Spinell), the neighborhood grocer, which Angelo provides as a favor for Nunzio's brother Jamesie (James Andronica). Nunzio is fixated on elements of superhero stories; he wears sweatshirts that he has emblazoned with a shield and a capital "N" in the style of Superman's shield, along with a cape, and often walks and jumps across his neighborhood's rooftops, stopping short of actually trying to fly. Younger children enjoy his company, particularly Georgie (Glenn Scarpelli), whom he suggests will one day have to take his place as neighborhood do-gooder. However, he is also constantly bullied by a gang of youths, led by JoJo (Vincent Russo), who enjoy ridiculing his dress and taking advantage of his diminished faculties.
Day of the Animals, 1h37
Directed by William Girdler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors Leslie Nielsen, Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Richard Jaeckel, Michael Ansara, Ruth Roman
Roles Sam
Rating53% 2.6513552.6513552.6513552.6513552.651355
A battle for survival begins as a group of mountain hikers in Northern California encounter a chemically imbalanced forest. The recent depletion of the Earth's ozone layer causes the sun to shine powerful ultraviolet light carrying some kind of solar radiation that somehow causes all animals above the altitude of 5,000 feet to run amok and kill, which is very unfortunate for a group of hikers (including Christopher George, Lynda Day George, and Leslie Nielsen) who get dropped off up there by helicopter just before a quarantine is announced for all the surrounding towns. This has a dramatic effect on the rest of the nation, turning common household pets and pests into vicious attackers.
King Kong
King Kong (1976)
, 2h14
Directed by John Guillermin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, La préhistoire, Transport films, Animaux préhistoriques, Natural horror films, Films about apes, King Kong films, Giant monster films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Disaster films
Actors Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, René Auberjonois, Jack O'Halloran, Ed Lauter
Roles Subway Driver
Rating59% 2.953492.953492.953492.953492.95349
Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin), an executive of the Petrox Oil Company, forms an expedition based on infrared imagery which reveals a previously undiscovered Indian Ocean island hidden by a permanent cloud bank. Wilson believes the island has a huge deposit of oil. Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges), a primate paleontologist who wants to see the island for himself, stows away on the expedition's vessel. Prescott reveals himself when he warns the crew the cloud bank may be caused by an unknown beast. Wilson orders Prescott locked up, claiming that he is really a spy from a rival oil company. While escorted to lock-up, Prescott spots a life raft which carries the beautiful and unconscious Dwan (Jessica Lange). Wilson conducts a thorough background check on Prescott and realizes he is telling the truth. He appoints Prescott the expedition's official photographer and requests that he be present when Dwan revives because of his medical background. Upon waking, Dwan says she is an aspiring actress who was aboard a director's yacht which suddenly exploded.
Heavy Traffic, 1h16
Directed by Ralph Bakshi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Animation
Themes Mafia films, Films about racism, Gangster films
Actors Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank DeKova, Michael Brandon, Jamie Farr, Robert Easton, Lillian Adams
Roles Bum (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.2480953.2480953.2480953.2480953.248095
The film starts out in live action, introducing the protagonist Michael Corleone, a 24-year-old virgin playing pinball in New York City. The scene then transitions into animation. New York has a diseased, rotten, tough, and violent atmosphere. Michael's Italian father, Angelo "Angie" Corleone, is a struggling mafioso who frequently cheats on Michael's Jewish mother, Ida. The couple constantly bicker and try to kill each other. Michael ambles through a catalog of freaks, greasers, and dopers. Unemployed, he dabbles with cartoons, artistically feeding off the grubbiness of his environment. He regularly hangs out at a local bar where he gets free drinks from the female black bartender, Carole, in exchange for sketches of the somewhat annoying Shorty, Carole's violent, legless bouncer devotee. One of the regular customers at the bar named Snowflake, a nymphomaniac transvestite, gets beaten up by a tough drunk who has only just realized that Snowflake is a man in drag and not a beautiful woman. Shorty throws the drunk out and the bar's white manager abusively confronts Carole over this. Fed up with her manager, Carole quits.
Cops and Robbers, 1h29
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Cliff Gorman, Joseph Bologna, Shepperd Strudwick, Martin Kove, John P. Ryan, Frances Foster
Roles Wino
Rating63% 3.1956653.1956653.1956653.1956653.195665
Tom and Joe are disillusioned New York City cops who decide to pull off one big robbery in their uniforms and retire on the proceeds. Bearer bonds are what the local Mafia boss will buy, so that's what they go for. Central Park is the location for the switch. Can they come out of it with their lives and the money?