# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-olkewicz
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:19:45.893Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-olkewicz"
name: "Walter Olkewicz"
slug: "walter-olkewicz"
description: "Walter Olkewicz was an American character actor. He is perhaps best-known for his role as Jacques Renault, a suspect in the murder of Laura Palmer, in the first season of Twin Peaks. He also played Marko in the short-lived TV series Wizards and Warriors and Coach Wordman in the feature film Making the Grade."
tagline: "American actor (1948–2021)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/Walter_Olkewicz_in_Seinfeld.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-05-14"
deathDate: "2021-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.20627466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0390805"
sources:
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    title: "واڵتەر ئۆلکێڤیچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Олкевич, Уолтер"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Walter Olkewicz"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump