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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.
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Walter Brooke Biography / Wiki
Name | Walter Brooke |
Also Know | |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, U.S. |
Date of Birth | 1914-10-13 |
Age(as in 2022) | 71 |
Deathday | 1986-08-20 |
Walter Brooke Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Conquest of Space | Gen. Samuel T. Merritt | 1955-04-20 | A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain’s religious beliefs may get in the way…. |
Inner Sanctum: Dead Level | Johnny Brice | 1954-01-30 | A hearse driver is drawn into a plot by a beautiful blonde to haul away a man she’s murdered and take the body to a cemetery…. |
Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest | 1974-08-20 | Police looking for drug dealers mistakenly raid the house of a typical suburban family. However, rather than admit their mistake and jeopardize their … | |
Bloodlust! | Dean Gerrard | 1961-09-13 | Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Ba… |
Advice to the Lovelorn | Walter Sheehan | 1981-11-30 | A failed pilot for a series centering on Maggie Dale, an advice columnist. This was somewhat in the tradition of shows like Fantasy Island. When she r… |
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me | Mr. Denver | 1974-03-06 | A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping… |
The Landlord | William Enders | 1970-05-20 | At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders “runs away” from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope sec… |
The Pinballs | Mr. Mason | 1977-10-26 | Three orphans from very different backgrounds find themselves living with the same foster couple while waiting to be adopted…. |
Scruples | Dr. Rutgers | 1981-05-22 | A woman inherits a millionaire business, but the problems she needs to solve are of the same proportions…. |
Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting | Jerry Wolfe | 1969-05-13 | A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered…. |
Harrad Summer | Sam Grove | 1974-08-01 | Stanley, Harry, Sheila and Beth, four students from the ‘free sex’ Harrad College, spend the summer together to meet their families…. |
The Astronaut | Tom Everett | 1972-01-08 | An elaborate deception emerges when an American astronaut is lost on a mission to Mars. Space agency officials fearful of losing public support and go… |
Time Travelers | Dr. Stafford | 1976-03-19 | When a novel virus devastates the world in 1976, Dr. Earnshaw notices that it resembles a virus that a Dr. Henderson found a cure for in 1871 Chicago…. |
The Return of Count Yorga | Bill Nelson | 1971-08-18 | Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of… |
Fun with Dick and Jane | Mr. Weeks | 1977-03-18 | When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation…. |
In Search of Historic Jesus | Joseph of Arimathea | 1979-08-01 | Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews…. |
Beyond Reason | Dr. Grovenor | 1977-01-01 | An unconventional psychiatrist slowly begins to question his own sanity…. |
Sergeant Ryker | Col. Arthur Merriam | 1968-02-01 | During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy.He’s court-martialed and … |
Yours, Mine and Ours | Howard Beardsley | 1968-04-24 | When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?… |
Executive Action | Smythe | 1973-11-07 | Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this specu… |
The Graduate | Mr. McGuire | 1967-12-21 | Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter…. |
Framed | Sen. Tatum | 1975-08-01 | Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind … |
Zig Zag | Adam Mercer | 1970-05-01 | A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward…. |
The Party Crashers | Mr. Webster | 1958-09-01 | Troubled teenagers, ineffectual parents, and a climactic tragedy…. |
Stowaway to the Moon | Whitehead | 1975-01-10 | E.J. Mackernutt, Jr., an 11-year-old boy who has always been fascinated by space and astronauts, sneaks into Cape Kennedy and becomes a stowaway on a … |
The New Adventures of Heidi | Cousin Tobias | 1978-12-13 | Heidi leaves the mountains of Switzerland for a trip to New York City…. |
C-Man | Joe | 1949-05-27 | A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler’s trail of corpses from Paris to New York…. |
Separate Ways | Lawrence Stevens | 1981-05-01 | A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair…. |
A Tattered Web | Lt. Preston | 1971-09-24 | A detective discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his wife. He confronts the other woman and accidentally kills her, then tries to pin the crime on … |
The Other Side of the Mountain | Dean | 1975-11-14 | One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now… |
How Sweet It Is! | Haskell Wax | 1968-08-21 | All-American couple who try to bridge the generation gap with their free-spirited son on a trip, frisky business and misunderstandings galore ensue, a… |
The Chadwick Family | Dr. Simon | 1974-04-17 | A father finds himself taking care of a family that, in addition to his son and three daughters, also consists of two sons-in-law and his youngest dau… |
Lawman | Luther Harris | 1971-03-11 | While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a st… |
Black Sunday | Fowler | 1977-03-11 | An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black September PLO plot to commit a terrorist attack at the Supe… |
Bullet Scars | Trooper Walter Leary | 1942-03-07 | Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe’s nurse sister Nora Madison is also take… |
Winter Kill | Ben | 1974-04-15 | Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and… |
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross | Rector | 1971-02-22 | After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he me… |
North Dallas Forty | Doctor | 1979-08-03 | A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s…. |
Marooned | Network Commentator | 1969-12-11 | After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won’t activate. Af… |
The Mephisto Waltz | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1971-04-09 | A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not… |
The Big Bus | Mr. Ames | 1976-06-23 | The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disaste… |
In This Our Life | Cab Driver (uncredited) | 1942-05-08 | An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister’s husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her…. |
St. Ives | Mickey | 1976-02-24 | A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers…. |
Beggarman, Thief | American Intelligence Agent | 1979-11-26 | Sequel to “Rich Man, Poor Man” with more characters branching off from the Jordache family…. |
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | The Mayor (segment “The Cobbler and the Elves”) | 1962-08-07 | The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write s… |
The Andromeda Strain | 1971-03-12 | When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air For… | |
Jagged Edge | Duane Bendix | 1985-10-04 | San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himsel… |
They Died with Their Boots On | Cadet Rosser (uncredited) | 1941-11-20 | The story follows General George Armstrong Custer’s adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains th… |
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