Walter Brooke
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Walter Brooke (October 23, 1914 – August 20, 1986) was an American actor. Brooke is best known for playing Mr. McGuire in The Graduate, where he said his famous line, "Plastics". He is also remembered for playing district attorney Frank Scanlon in the television series The Green Hornet. Brooke appeared on stage in the 1957 production of Hide and Seek at the Shubert Theatre in Washington, D.C. Brooke died from emphysema on August 20, 1986, aged 71. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Brooke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Oct 13, 1914 In New York City, New York, U.S.
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 48
- First Appeared:
- In the movie They Died with Their Boots On 1941-11-20
- Latest Project:
- Movie Jagged Edge 1985-10-04
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Jagged Edge | Duane Bendix | 1985-10-04 |
| Movie | Beyond Reason | Dr. Grovenor | 1985-09-26 |
| Movie | Separate Ways | Lawrence Stevens | 1981-05-01 |
| Movie | Advice to the Lovelorn | Walter Sheehan | 1981-11-30 |
| Movie | The Nude Bomb | American Ambassador | 1980-05-09 |
| Movie | In Search of Historic Jesus | Joseph of Arimathea | 1979-08-01 |
| Movie | Beggarman, Thief | American Intelligence Agent | 1979-11-26 |
| Movie | North Dallas Forty | Doctor | 1979-08-03 |
| Movie | Fun with Dick and Jane | Mr. Weeks | 1977-03-18 |
| Movie | Black Sunday | Fowler | 1977-04-01 |
| Movie | St. Ives | Mickey | 1976-02-24 |
| Movie | Time Travelers | Dr. Stafford | 1976-03-19 |
| Movie | The Big Bus | Mr. Ames | 1976-06-23 |
| Movie | Fury of the Dragon | Frank P. Scanlon | 1976-10-14 |
| Movie | Street Killing | The Major | 1976-09-12 |
| Movie | Stowaway to the Moon | Whitehead | 1975-01-10 |
| Movie | The Other Side of the Mountain | Dean | 1975-11-14 |
| Movie | Framed | Sen. Tatum | 1975-08-01 |
| Movie | The Stranger Who Looks Like Me | Mr. Denver | 1974-03-06 |
| Movie | Winter Kill | Ben | 1974-04-15 |
| Movie | The Green Hornet | Dist. Atty Scanlon | 1974-03-21 |
| Movie | Executive Action | Smythe | 1973-11-07 |
| Movie | The Astronaut | Tom Everett | 1972-01-08 |
| Movie | Lawman | Luther Harris | 1971-03-11 |
| Movie | The Andromeda Strain | Assistant to Cabinet Secretary (uncredited) | 1971-03-12 |
| Movie | The Return of Count Yorga | Bill Nelson | 1971-08-18 |
| Movie | The Mephisto Waltz | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1971-04-09 |
| Movie | Zig Zag | Adam Mercer | 1970-05-01 |
| Movie | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Captain Theodore Wilkinson | 1970-01-26 |
| Movie | San Francisco International | Clifford Foster Evans | 1970-09-29 |
| Movie | The Landlord | William Enders | 1970-05-20 |
| Movie | Daddy's Gone A-Hunting | Jerry Wolfe | 1969-05-13 |
| Movie | Marooned | Network Commentator | 1969-12-11 |
| Movie | Sergeant Ryker | Col. Arthur Merriam | 1968-02-01 |
| Movie | How Sweet It Is! | Haskell Wax | 1968-08-21 |
| Movie | Yours, Mine and Ours | Howard Beardsley | 1968-04-24 |
| Movie | The Graduate | Mr. McGuire | 1967-12-21 |
| Movie | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | The Mayor (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves") | 1962-08-07 |
| Movie | Bloodlust! | Dean Gerrard | 1961-09-13 |
| Movie | The Party Crashers | Mr. Webster | 1958-09-01 |
| Movie | Conquest of Space | Gen. Samuel T. Merritt | 1955-04-20 |
| Movie | Bullet Scars | Trooper Walter Leary | 1942-03-07 |
| Movie | The Male Animal | Reporter (uncredited) | 1942-03-12 |
| Movie | All Through the Night | Reporter (uncredited) | 1942-01-10 |
| Movie | In This Our Life | Cab Driver (uncredited) | 1942-05-08 |
| Movie | Murder in the Big House | Reporter (uncredited) | 1942-04-11 |
| Movie | Desperate Journey | Sgt. Warwick | 1942-09-26 |
| Movie | They Died with Their Boots On | Cadet Rosser (uncredited) | 1941-11-20 |