Christopher Walken
American actor (born 1943) · United States · Actors
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Something wrong?He turned a hesitation into menace, a line reading into legend. Walken made strangeness magnetic - the voice, the timing, the faint unease behind even his comedic turns - and stayed central across five decades without ever quite fitting in.
A life in dates
Dune: Part TwoFilm, Emperor2022
SeveranceSeries, Burt Goodman2017
Father FiguresFilm, Dr. Walter Tinkler2016Sitges Grand Honorary AwardAward2015
The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSeries2014“I’m Christopher Walken here!”In their words(The mean streets of New Jersey, 2014)2012
Seven PsychopathsFilm, Hans Kieslowski2010
ConanSeries2007“I have the easiest job in Hollywood, because I get paid to be me. What's the role? A milkman? 'Hey, I'm a milkman. Here's your milk.' 'Cut. Print.”In their words20 July 2007The Henry Rollins Show (July 20, 2007), Season 2, Episode 15.
Balls of FuryFilm, 2007Feng2005
DominoFilm, Mark Heiss2004“Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.”In their words29 October 2004Hap Erstein (October 29, 2004) "Walken Doesn't Mind Playing Creepy Type - As Long As He's Cast", The Palm Beach Post, p. 9.“I look for good possibilities in movies. I don't look for perfection.”In their words18 October 2004Glenn Lovell: Knight Ridder Newspapers (October 18, 2004) "A mellow, reflective Christopher Walken", The Seattle Times, p. E8.“I'm not a big fan of other people's punctuation. When I read a script I've got a sort of automatic eraser. I don't see punctuation or capitals or instructions.”In their words17 October 2004Jason Walsh (October 17, 2004) "Walken on the edge", Marin Independent Journal, Section: Lifestyles.2003BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting RoleAward
The Ellen DeGeneres ShowSeries, 2003
Kangaroo JackFilm, 2003Salvatore 'Sal' Maggio2001“Get these tubes away from me!”In their wordsfrom Joe Dirt (2001)
America's SweetheartsFilm, 2001Hal Weidmann1998
AntzFilm, Colonel Cutter (voice)1996
Last Man StandingFilm, Hickey1994
Pulp FictionFilm, Captain Koons1993
Late Night with Conan O'BrienSeries1992
Batman ReturnsFilm, Max Shreck1985
A View to a KillFilm, Max Zorin1982
American PlayhouseSeries, Harry Nash1980
Heaven's GateFilm, Nathan D. Champion1979Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorAward1977
Annie HallFilm, Duane Hall1973
KojakSeries, Ben Wiley1969
Hawaii Five-OSeries, Walt Kramer1967Theatre World AwardAward1966Clarence Derwent AwardsAward1953
The OscarsSeries1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries1943Born31 March 1943Also in Deutsch
Photos 5
In their own words 10
, I’m Christopher Walken here!
I have the easiest job in Hollywood, because I get paid to be me. What's the role? A milkman? 'Hey, I'm a milkman. Here's your milk.' 'Cut. Print.
I play a lot of those parts, and it's a chicken-and-egg thing. I don't know whether you get scary because you play those parts or did you get those parts because you were scary?
Filmography 40
DTDune: Part Two
TGThe War with GrandpaFFFather Figures
TBThe Jungle Book
NLNine Lives
EEEddie the EagleSPSeven Psychopaths
SGStand Up Guys
KIKill the Irishman
HAHairsprayBFBalls of Fury
CLClick
MYMan of the Year
WCWedding CrashersDODomino
MFMan on Fire
TWThe Stepford Wives
TRThe RundownKJKangaroo Jack
CCCatch Me If You Can
JDJoe DirtASAmerica's Sweethearts
SHSleepy Hollow
BPBlast from the PastANAntz
MOMouseHuntLSLast Man Standing
TPThe Prophecy
TDThings to Do in Denver When You're Dead
NTNick of TimePFPulp Fiction
TRTrue Romance
WWWayne's World 2BRBatman Returns
KYKing of New YorkAKA View to a Kill
TZThe Dead ZoneHGHeaven's Gate
THThe Deer HunterAHAnnie Hall194 credits on file
Television 24
SESeverance
TOThe OutlawsTCThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TFThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
FRFinding Your RootsCOConan
RO30 RockTSThe Ellen DeGeneres Show
TSThe Daily Show
LLLate Show with David LettermanLBLate Night with Conan O'Brien
TLThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
LMLIVE with Kelly and Mark
LLLate Night with David LettermanAPAmerican Playhouse
SLSaturday Night LiveKOKojakHOHawaii Five-O
NCNaked City
TATony AwardsTOThe Oscars
TOTodayGAGolden Globe AwardsAwards
In their orbit
Spouse: Georgianne WalkenAbout this person
Born Ronald Walken in March 1943, he worked steadily through the 1970s in supporting parts until The Deer Hunter cracked him open: his troubled veteran Nick Chevotarevich won him the Oscar in 1978. What followed was a catalog that defied genre - Bond villain in A View to a Kill, crime king in King of New York, scene-stealer in Pulp Fiction and True Romance, the Headless Horseman in Sleepy Hollow. He earned a second Oscar nomination for Catch Me If You Can in 2002, played Shakespeare on stage (Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus), and turned Saturday Night Live sketches like "More Cowbell" into pop-culture fixtures across seven hosting stints. By the 2020s he was still working, voicing animated features, anchoring the series Severance, appearing in Dune: Part Two - over $1.6 billion in domestic box office behind him and the delivery still unmistakable.
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