“Blade Runner” Actor M. Emmet Walsh Is Dead British Parliament Debates Tough Anti-Tobacco Laws

He suffered cardiac arrest on Tuesday in a hospital in the US state of Vermont, his management announced on Wednesday. Walsh was 88 years old.

Over six decades, Walsh appeared in 119 feature films and more than 250 television productions, manager Sandy Joseph said. In 1982, director Ridley Scott cast him in front of the camera with Harrison Ford in the role of a hardened police officer for the science fiction thriller ‘Blade Runner’. In ‘Blood Simple’ (1984), the directorial debut of the Coen brothers, he starred as an unscrupulous private detective. The role earned him a Spirit Award trophy for Best Actor.

Walsh made his feature film debut in 1969 in the musical film “Alice’s Restaurant”. He made the western “Little Big Man” (1970) with Dustin Hoffman and the comedy “Is What, Doc?” with Ryan O’Neal and Barbra Streisand. (1972), with Steve Martin “Wealth Is No Shame” (1979) and with Robert Redford the prison drama “Brubaker” (1980). He played the groom’s father in the romance “My Best Friend’s Wedding” with Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulrooney and a security guard in the star-studded crime film “Knives Out” (2019). (sda/dpa)