Profile
Christopher Walken
Actor
Male
Born
Mar 31, 1943
Hometown
New York City
Died
Sep 7, 2012
Nationality
United States
Alma Mater
Hofstra University
Other Names
Walken, Ronald
Christopher Walken is an American stage and screen actor.
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Christopher Walken
d.2012
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CHILDHOOD
1943
Birth
Born on March 31, 1943.
1953
10 Years Old
He landed a regular role in the 1953 television show The Wonderful John Acton as the show's narrator.
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TEENAGE
1954
11 Years Old
Over the next two years, he appeared frequently on television (landing a role in the experimental film Me and My Brother) and had a thriving career in theatre. From 1954 to 1956, Walken and his brother Glenn originated the role of Michael Bauer on the soap opera The Guiding Light.
TWENTIES
1966
23 Years Old
In 1966, Walken played the role of King Philip of France in the Broadway premiere of The Lion in Winter.
In 1969, Walken guest-starred in Hawaii Five-O as Navy SP Walt Kramer.
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1972
29 Years Old
Walken made his feature film debut with a small role opposite Sean Connery, in Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes. In 1972's The Mind Snatchers A.K.A. The Happiness Cage, Walken played his first starring role.
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THIRTIES
In 1978, he appeared in Shoot the Sun Down, a western filmed in 1976 that costarred Margot Kidder.
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1981
38 Years Old
Walken also starred in the 1981 action adventure The Dogs of War, directed by John Irvin.
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1982
39 Years Old
In 1982, he played a socially awkward, but gifted theater actor in Who Am I This Time? opposite Susan Sarandon.
FORTIES
1988
45 Years Old
Walken played the role of Federal Agent Kyril Montana in Milagro Beanfield War in 1988.
He also played the leading role of Whitley Strieber in 1989's Communion, an autobiographical film written by Strieber based on his claims that he and his family were subject to alien abductions.
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In 1992, Walken played a villain in Batman Returns: millionaire industrialist Max Shreck.
FIFTIES
1997
54 Years Old
In 1997, Walken starred in the comedy films Touch, Excess Baggage and had a minor role in the film MouseHunt.
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1998
55 Years Old
In 1998, Walken played an influential gay New York theater critic in John Turturro's film Illuminata.The same year he voiced Colonel Cutter in the computer animated film Antz.
1999
56 Years Old
In 1999, Walken played Calvin Webber in the romantic comedy Blast from the Past.
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2000
57 Years Old
In 2000, Walken was cast as the lead, along with Blair Brown, in James Joyce's The Dead on Broadway.
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Walken debuted as a film director and script writer with the short film Popcorn Shrimp in 2001.
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2002
59 Years Old
He was nominated for a Razzie (Worst Supporting Actor) in 2002's The Country Bears and in two 2003 movies, Gigli and Kangaroo Jack.
LATE ADULTHOOD
2009
66 Years Old
The film The Maiden Heist, a comedy co-starring Morgan Freeman and Walken, about security guards in an art museum, debuted at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on June 25, 2009.
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2010
67 Years Old
Walken returned to Broadway in Martin McDonagh's play A Behanding in Spokane in 2010, and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.
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2011
68 Years Old
In 2011, Walken hired a lawyer when authorities re-opened the Wood case, while the LAPD said "Walken is not a suspect".
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