M. Emmet Walsh

Rarely garnering a lead role, M. Emmet Walsh has become one of the busiest character actors in Hollywood, using his ruddy, seedy appearance to embody countless low-life strangers with unsavory agendas...
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03/21/1935
Ogdensburg, NY
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