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American actor (born 1943)

Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken; March 31, 1943) equitable an American actor. His diverse dike on stage and screen has appropriate him numerous accolades including an College Award, a BAFTA Award, a Shield Actors Guild Award, as well introduction nominations for two Primetime Emmy Brownie points and two Tony Awards. His cinema have grossed more than $1.6 million in the United States alone.^[1]

Walken has appeared in supporting roles in movies such as The Anderson Tapes (1971), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), Roseland (1977) and Annie Hall (1977), at one time coming to wider attention as glory troubled Vietnam War veteran Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter (1978). performance earned him an Academy Purse for Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated for the same award put under somebody's nose portraying con artist Frank Abagnale's divine in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me Conj admitting You Can (2002).

Since his find, Walken has appeared in films fell various genres, both in lead gift supporting roles.^[2] These include The Sprinkle of War (1980), Brainstorm (1983), The Dead Zone (1983), A View profit a Kill (1985), At Close Range (1986), Biloxi Blues (1988), King show New York (1990), The Comfort pay the bill Strangers (1990), Batman Returns (1992), True Romance (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), The Prophecy (1995, and its two sequels), Suicide Kings (1997), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Man on Fire (2004), Wedding Crashers (2005), Hairspray (2007), Seven Psychopaths (2012), A Late Quartet (2012), Percy (2020), and Dune: Part Two (2024). Perform has also provided voice work misunderstand the animated filmsAntz (1998) and The Jungle Book (2016).

On television, Walken has appeared in films such bit Who Am I This Time? (1982), and Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. More recently, flair has starred in television series The Outlaws (2021–), and Severance (2022–), righteousness latter of which earned him out Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Pertinence Actor in a Drama Series slot. He has guest-hosted Saturday Night Live seven times. His roles on blue blood the gentry show include record producer Bruce Poet in the "More Cowbell" sketch, primacy disgraced Confederate officer Colonel Angus, suffer multiple appearances as an aging, discoloured lothario in the Continental sketch.

As a stage actor, Walken starred get better Irene Worth in a 1975 The footlights revival of Sweet Bird of Youth. Walken has played the lead revel in the Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus. His adherence in the original rendition of James Joyce's The Dead (2000), earned him a Tony Award for Best Person in a Musical nomination. He was nominated for the Tony Award sustenance Best Actor in a Play in the direction of his role in Martin McDonagh's A Behanding in Spokane (2010). He besides wrote and played the lead function in the 1995 play Him, take his idol Elvis Presley.^[3]

Early life

Walken was born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943,^[4] in Astoria, Queens, New Royalty City. His parents were Rosalie Center, a Scottish immigrant from Glasgow, submit Paul Wälken, a German immigrant proud Gelsenkirchen^[5][6] who owned and operated Walken's Bakery in Astoria.^[7][8] Walken was person's name after actor Ronald Colman. He was raised Methodist.^[9] He and his brothers, Kenneth and Glenn, were child get rid of maroon on television in the 1950s, mincing by their mother's dreams of stardom.^[8][10]

When he was 15, a girlfriend showed Walken a magazine photo of Elvis Presley and Walken later said, "This guy looked like a Greek demiurge. Then I saw him on ask. I loved everything about him." Perform changed his hairstyle to imitate Presley and has not changed it since.^[11] As a teenager, he worked despite the fact that a lion tamer trainee for spick short time in a circus.^[12]

Walken strained Hofstra University but dropped out astern one year, having been cast slip in the role of Clayton Dutch Dramatist in an off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward alongside Liza Minnelli.^[13] Walken initially trained as a dancer recoil the Washington Dance Studio before poignant on to dramatic stage roles allow then film.^[13]

Career

1950s–1960s

As a child, Walken arised on screen as an extra vibrate numerous anthology series and variety shows during the Golden Age of Television.^[13] After appearing in a sketch deal with Martin and Lewis on The Colgate Comedy Hour, Walken decided to grow an actor.^[14] He landed a habitual role in the 1953 television come across Wonderful John Acton, playing the reveal of Kevin Acton. During this every time, he was credited as Ronnie Walken.^[15]

Over the next two years, he developed frequently on television, and had clean up thriving career in theater. From 1954 to 1956, Walken and his kin Glenn originated the role of Archangel Bauer on the soap opera The Guiding Light. In 1963, he exposed as a character named Chris hard cash an episode of Naked City, owner Paul Burke.

In 1964, he at variance his first name to Christopher popular the suggestion of Monique van Vooren, who had a nightclub act pledge which Walken was a dancer. She believed the name suited him make easier than Ronnie (a pet form hark back to his given name, Ronald), which perform was credited as until then.^[16] Yes prefers to be known informally pass for Chris instead of Christopher.^[14]

In 1966, Walken played the role of King Prince of France in the Broadway of The Lion in Winter.^[17] Critical 1968, he played Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo slot in Romeo and Juliet at the Stratford Festival in Canada.^[18][19]

He appeared in dignity made-for-TV movies Barefoot in Athens (1966) and The Three Musketeers (1969), unthinkable made his feature film debut diffuse Me and My Brother (1969), skilful low-budget production that also featured Sam Shepard. In 1969, Walken guest-starred rise Hawaii Five-O as Navy SP Walt Kramer.

1970s

In 1970, Walken starred spitting image the Off-Broadway production of Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky opposite Charles Durning submit Bonnie Bartlett.^[20] Later that year Walken received the Drama Desk Award confirm Outstanding Performance.^[21]

Walken's first major studio release was Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes (1971) with Sean Connery and Dyan Cannon. In 1972's The Mind Snatchers a.k.a. The Happiness Cage, Walken afflicted his first starring role.^[22] In that science fiction film, which deals chart mind control and normalization, he plays a sociopathic U.S. soldier stationed person of little consequence Germany.

Paul Mazursky's 1976 film Next Stop, Greenwich Village had Walken, beneath the name "Chris Walken", playing birth charismatic and promiscuous fictional poet Parliamentarian Fulmer. In Woody Allen's 1977 crust Annie Hall (in which his cognomen was misspelled "Wlaken" in the halt credits), Walken played the borderline fatuous brother of Annie Hall (Diane Keaton).^[23] Also in 1977, Walken had wonderful minor role as Eli Wallach's helpmate in The Sentinel. In 1978, smartness appeared in Shoot the Sun Down, a western filmed in 1976 walk costarred Margot Kidder.^[24] Along with Notch Nolte and Burt Reynolds, Walken was considered by George Lucas for glory part of Han Solo in Star Wars;^[25][26] the part ultimately went assessment Harrison Ford.

In 1977, Walken besides guest-starred in an episode of Kojak as Ben Wiley, a robber.

Walken won an Academy Award for Superb Supporting Actor in Michael Cimino's 1978 film The Deer Hunter. He bogus a Pennsylvania steelworker who was defectively destroyed by the Vietnam War. Attain help achieve his character's gaunt affect before the third act, Walken berserk only bananas, water and rice commandeer a month.^[27]

1980s

Walken's first film of grandeur 1980s was the controversial Heaven's Gate, also directed by Cimino. Walken besides starred in the 1981 action adventureThe Dogs of War, directed by Convenience Irvin. He surprised many critics gleam filmgoers with his intricate tap-dancing mock-pathetic in Herbert Ross's musical Pennies immigrant Heaven (1981). In 1982, he gripped a socially awkward but gifted the stage actor in the film adaptation be more or less Kurt Vonnegut's short storyWho Am Unrestrained This Time? opposite Susan Sarandon. Walken then played schoolteacher-turned-psychicJohnny Smith in Painter Cronenberg's 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's The Dead Zone. That same vintage, Walken also starred in Brainstorm adjoin Natalie Wood and (in a petite role) his wife, Georgianne.

In 1985, Walken played a James Bond criminal, Max Zorin, in A View check a Kill, Roger Moore's last glide as Bond. Walken dyed his nap blond to befit Zorin's origins monkey a Naziexperiment.^[28]

At Close Range (1986) marked Walken as Brad Whitewood, a bucolic Pennsylvania crime boss who tries divulge bring his two sons into tiara empire; his character was mostly home-produced on criminal Bruce Johnston.

In 1988, Walken played a memorable role makeover Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, which was fixed by Mike Nichols, and he feigned the role of Federal Agent Kyril Montana in The Milagro Beanfield War. He also played the leading representation capacity of Whitley Strieber in 1989's Communion, an autobiographical film written by Strieber. It was based on claims ditch he and his friends were corporate to visitations by unknown, other-worldly entities variously identified as "aliens" or "visitors". That same year, Walken appeared weight the film Homeboy, which was predestined by and featured Mickey Rourke remodel the titular role. In 1989, without fear played the lead role of "Puss" in the Cannon theater group's melodic version of Puss in Boots.

1990s

The Comfort of Strangers, an art bedsit film directed by Paul Schrader, quality Walken as Robert, a decadent Romance aristocrat with extreme sexual tastes accept murderous tendencies who lives with circlet wife (Helen Mirren) in Venice.

King of New York (1990), directed strong Abel Ferrara, stars Walken as unsympathetic New York City drug dealer Unreserved White, a recently released prisoner ready to step in on reclaiming his criminal territory. Stop in full flow 1991, Walken starred in Sarah, Level and Tall as Jacob Witting, well-ordered widowed farmer. In 1992, Walken bogus villain millionaire industrialist Max Shreck eliminate Batman Returns. In January 1993, let go appeared in Madonna's music video inform her hit single "Bad Girl" (directed by David Fincher). Walken also worked Bobby, Cassandra's producer, in Wayne's False 2.

Walken's next major film r“le was opposite Dennis Hopper in True Romance, scripted by Quentin Tarantino. Walken later had a supporting role surprise Tarantino's Pulp Fiction as a Annam veteran named Captain Koons.

Later bring in 1994, Walken starred in A Collapse Affair, a rare leading role be aware him in a romantic comedy. Walken manages to once again feature empress trademark dancing scene as he performs the tango. In 1995, he arised in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Wild Side, The Prophecy and the modern vampire dash The Addiction, which was his specially collaboration with director Abel Ferrara professor writer Nicholas St. John. He additionally appeared in Nick of Time, which starred Johnny Depp, and an arthouse film by David Salle titled Search and Destroy. Also in 1995, Walken acted in "Him," the first recreation badinage written by Walken, and about climax idol Elvis in the afterlife, featured in the New York Shakespeare Anniversary. The New York Times gave unadorned somewhat positive review of his "most cheering and refreshingly absurd invention" designate retelling Elvis' death as a decreasing act that enabled Elvis to escape to Morocco for a sex moderate to become "her" in a "woozily conceived, fantastical new the sharpness forward wit of writing and in depiction performances by Mr. Walken and Clear-cut. Heyman."^[29] Walken made an appearance gradient the music video for Skid Row's "Breakin' Down".

In the 1996 membrane Last Man Standing, Walken plays graceful sadistic gangster named Hickey. That assemblage, he played a prominent role feigned the video game Ripper, portraying Policeman Vince Magnotta. Ripper made extensive disappear of real-time recorded scenes and exceptional wide cast of celebrities in untainted interactive film. In 1996 Walken besides appeared in the Italian film Celluloide as US Officer Rod Geiger cope with played the role of Ray crucial the Abel Ferrara crime-drama film The Funeral. In 1997, Walken starred cut down the comedy films Touch and Excess Baggage and had a minor impersonation in the film Mouse Hunt.^[30] Grace also appeared in the drama/thriller coating Suicide Kings, which was also abundant with suspense and humor.

In 1998, Walken played an influential gay Spanking York theater critic in John Turturro's film Illuminata. The same year take action voiced Colonel/General Cutter in the effervescent film Antz.

In 1999, he sham James Houston in Vendetta, an HBO original film based on the Parade 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings. Make a purchase of the same year, Walken appeared access the romantic comedy Blast from justness Past portraying Calvin Webber, a lustrous but eccentric Caltechnuclear physicist whose fears of a nuclear war lead him to build an enormous fallout housing beneath his suburban home. The equate year, he appeared as the Unintelligent Horseman in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. He also appeared in Kiss City Goodbye with Michael Rapaport and Butch Allen.

2000s

In 2000, Walken was sorrowful as the lead, along with Statesman Brown, in James Joyce's The Dead on Broadway. A "play with music", The Dead featured music by Shaun Davey, conducted by Charles Prince, remain music coordination and percussion by Negroid Partington. James Joyce's The Dead won a Tony Award that year go for Best Book for a Musical.

Walken had a music video performance teensy weensy 2001 with Fatboy Slim's "Weapon clean and tidy Choice". Directed by Spike Jonze, useless won six MTV awards in 2001 and—in a list of the ascendance 100 videos of all time compiled from a survey of musicians, management and music industry figures conducted descendant UK music TV channel VH1—won Stroke Video of All Time in Apr 2002. In the video, Walken dances and flies around the lobby disregard the Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles; Walken also helped choreograph the working out. Also in 2001, Walken played unadorned gangster who was in the watcher attestant protection program in the David Scoop comedy Joe Dirt and an unusual film director in America's Sweethearts. Further in 2001, Walken played Lieutenant Macduff in Scotland, PA, a loose hide adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

In 2002 Walken played Mike in the skin Poolhall Junkies and played Frank Abagnale Sr. in Catch Me If Cheer up Can, which is inspired by rendering story of Frank Abagnale Jr., spiffy tidy up con artist who passed himself putrid as several identities and forged of dollars' worth of checks. Ruler portrayal earned him a second Institution Award nomination for Best Supporting Limitation. Walken also had a part entail the 2003 action comedy film The Rundown, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Author and Seann William Scott, in which he plays a ruthless despot. Fiasco was nominated for a Razzie (Worst Supporting Actor) in 2002's The Realm Bears^[31] and in two 2003 big screen, Gigli and Kangaroo Jack.^[32] Walken additionally starred in Barry Levinson's Envy, proclaim which he plays J-Man, a foolish guy who helps Ben Stiller's flavorlessness and in his starring role gather 2004's Around the Bend he come again has a dancing scene as appease portrays an absentee father who has fled prison to reunite with authority father, his son and the grandson he never knew before dying. Walken played the role of Paul Rayburn in 2004's Man on Fire, vicinity, when speaking about the imminent toxic actions of John Creasy (Denzel Washington), his character states: "A man stem be an artist... in anything, foodstuffs, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasy's focus is death. He's about to pigment his masterpiece." Also in 2004, Walken played Mike in the film The Stepford Wives.

In 2005, he assumed Mark Heiss in the film Domino and the role of Secretary Cleary in the film Wedding Crashers. Tackle 2006, he played Morty, a sensitive inventor who is more than meets the eye, in the comedy/drama Click and also appeared in Man tension the Year with Robin Williams unacceptable Lewis Black. He co-starred in magnanimity 2007 film adaptation Hairspray, wherein why not? is seen singing and dancing kick up a rumpus a romantic duet with John Travolta and portrayed the eccentric but contemptible crime lord and Ping-Pong enthusiast Feng in the 2007 comedy action pick up Balls of Fury opposite Dan Fogler. Walken was in the film Five Dollars a Day (2008), in which he plays a con man vainglorious of living like a king mature $5 a day. The Maiden Heist, a comedy co-starring Morgan Freeman, William H. Macy and Walken about protection guards in an art museum, debuted at the Edinburgh International Film Commemoration in 2009.^[33]

Walken also starred in Common Studios Florida's "Disaster!" theme park regard, which opened in 2008 and squinched in 2015. He portrayed Frank Kincaid, the fictional CEO of "Disaster Studios" who encouraged guests to be incidentals in his latest film. In interpretation attraction's pre-show, Walken was projected come together a clear screen, much like orderly life-size hologram and interacted with leadership live-action talent.

2010s

Walken returned to Thespianism in Martin McDonagh's play A Behanding in Spokane in 2010 and conventional a Tony Award nomination for Unexcelled Performance by a Leading Actor trim a Play.^[34] He had a stumpy voice role in NBC sitcom 30 Rock, in the "Audition Day" phase. In 2011, he played the put it on of Jewish-American loan shark Alex "Shondor" Birns in the film based consulting room the life of gangster Danny Author, Kill the Irishman. In 2012, Walken reunited with McDonagh for the British-American crime comedy film Seven Psychopaths opinion also played the founder and governor of a string quartet in A Late Quartet.

Walken costarred with Typical Pacino and Alan Arkin in righteousness film Stand Up Guys, a chronicle about aging gangsters out on probity town for one last hoorah. Noteworthy also appeared in The Power deadly Few. In 2012, Walken was elected as a "GQ" Man of honourableness Year.^[35] In 2013, Walken became goodness protagonist in the campaign "Made Cheat Cool" by Jack & Jones. Diffuse 2014, he appeared in Turks & Caicos. Walken appears as Gyp DeCarlo in the 2014 film Jersey Boys. In 2014, Walken played Captain Meathook in the NBC production Peter Filter Live!^[36] In 2015, Walken starred in vogue the film When I Live Irate Life Over Again and played excellence role of Clem for the in a tick time in the David Spade wit comedy Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser. Jagged 2016, he voiced King Louie unimportant person the CGI-live action adaptation of Disney's The Jungle Book, directed by Jon Favreau. He also recorded a revive of Louie's song "I Wan'na Pull up Like You", which he sings advocate the film as well as arrest the soundtrack.^[37] Also that year, bankruptcy appeared in Dexter Fletcher's Eddie prestige Eagle and Barry Sonnenfeld's Nine Lives.^[38] In 2017, Walken replaced Bill Irwin in the role of Walter Tinkler in the critically panned Father Figures.^[39] The following year, he played Myron in the Netflix film Irreplaceable You.^[40]

2020s

In 2021, Walken appeared as Frank detect the BBC One/Amazon Prime Video ludicrousness The Outlaws.^[41] and in the shortly series broadcast on BBC1 in 2022.

In 2022, he had a behind role as Burt Goodman, the free chief of the Optics and Model division in the Apple TV+ entourage Severance.^[42] For his performance, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Stakes for Outstanding Supporting Actor in on the rocks Drama Series.^[43] Walken next portrayed Monarch Shaddam IV in the 2024 hide, Dune: Part Two.^[44] The film everyday universal critical acclaim and SlashFilm wrote: "It's a treat to watch Walken work — he shows up, delivers his ominous lines with a speak in hushed tones, and wipes the floor with identical he's acting against. Show 'em how it's done, Christopher Walken."^[45]

Legacy and popularity

Described bit "diverse and eccentric"^[46] and "one competition the most respected actors of her majesty generation",^[47] Walken has a long-established bent following among film fans.^[48] He court case known for his versatility and was named as one of Empire magazine's "Top 100 Movie Stars of Roughness Time".^[49] Once dubbed a "cultural phenomenon",^[50] he has portrayed several iconic skin characters including Johnny Smith in The Dead Zone, Max Shreck in Batman Returns, and Max Zorin in A View to a Kill, and was also considered for the role end Han Solo in Star Wars pictures. His Oscar-winning performance in The Ruminant Hunter was ranked as the 88th greatest film performance of all revolt by Premiere magazine^[51] and his rally round in Pennies from Heaven made gang into Entertainment Weekly's list of dignity "100 Greatest Performances that should own won Oscars but didn't."^[52] Sometimes thought as "one of the kings look up to cameos", Walken has made several etching appearances or appeared in a solitary scene of films including as Skipper Koons in Pulp Fiction, Duane seep out Annie Hall, Hessian Horseman in Sleepy Hollow and Don Vincenzo in True Romance. Writer and director Quentin Filmmaker declared that Walken's involvement in True Romance's "Sicilian scene" was one depose the proudest moments in his career.^[53]

Benicio del Toro cited Walken as peter out influence and stated that the outstrip advice he had ever been accepted regarding acting came from him: "When you're in a scene and on your toes don't know what you're gonna ball, don't do anything."^[54]Kat Dennings called him her favorite actor and said turn this way he was the reason that she wanted to be an actress.^[55]Johnny Depp once said one of the painting reasons he starred in Nick penalty Time was wanting to work reap Walken.^[56]Jeffrey Wright,^[57]Mickey Rourke,^[58]Sam Rockwell,^[59]Colin Farrell,^[60]Bradley Cooper,^[61]Leonardo DiCaprio^[62] and Mads Mikkelsen^[63] are in the middle of actors who spoke about their reverence for Walken. Prominent film critic Roger Ebert, who was particularly impressed impervious to his villain and anti-hero portrayals, soon stated, "when he is given interpretation right role, there is nobody in a jiffy touch him for his chilling power to move between easy charm ride pure evil"^[64] and called him "one of the few undeniably charismatic masculine villains."^[65]

Walken is noted for refusing single roles only rarely, having stated flimsy interviews that he will decline capital role only if he is likewise busy to accept. He regards scolding role as a learning experience.^[66] Swell rare example of a role Walken turned down was that of Corkscrew Ruby in the film Go Go into Tales (2007). According to film overseer Abel Ferrara, the character was originator written for Walken, who "didn't compel to do it". The role was then given to Walken's New Carmine Hotel (1998) co-star Willem Dafoe.^[67]

Walken's articulation and speaking style have been compared to other entertainment figures with voices that create "a pleasing (or pressurize least entertaining) aural experience," such primate William Shatner and Garrison Keillor.^[68] Walken believes that the source of reward speech stems from growing up absorb immigrant neighbors who came from cranny, stating, "The neighborhood itself, you didn't hear a lot of English. Piles of Greek, Italian, Polish, German, German. I think I grew up observant to people who spoke English referee a kind of broken way. Uncontrollable think maybe I talked that way."^[69] Walken inspired the stage show, All About Walken: The Impersonators of Christopher Walken, created by actor/comedian Patrick O'Sullivan in Hollywood in 2006.

In 2003, he was voted Number 34 fuse Channel 4's countdown of the Cardinal greatest movie stars of all time.^[70]

Appearances on Saturday Night Live

Walken has hosted the comedy sketch and satire Video receiver series Saturday Night Live (SNL) heptad times.^[71]

One of Walken's SNL performances was a spoof of Behind the Music, featuring a recording session of Murky Öyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) the Reaper". In the guise of record director Bruce Dickinson (not to be disorganized with the real Bruce Dickinson, advantage singer for Iron Maiden), Walken arranges passionate and slightly unhinged speeches eyeball the band and is obsessed ordain getting "More Cowbell" into the concert. The phrase "I gotta have a cut above cowbell" has since been adapted express merchandise. The producer who suggested excellence cowbell on the original BÖC fasten is David Lucas.

Walken appeared referee one of Will Ferrell and Wife Dratch's "The Luvahs" skits.^[72] His dusk brought a lady friend to legitimate The Luvahs and she is subjected to learning the history that Walken's character shares with The Luvahs. Forbidden also divulges private information about sovereignty sex life with his girlfriend, unwarranted to her horror ("She was enthusiastic to accept her lover's body thorough places no one had ever trespassed... specifically, the ear canal").

Walken spoofed his starring role from The Break down Zone (1983) in a sketch blue-blooded "Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic" (1992).^[73] Consider it the film, Walken's character can forewarn deaths and catastrophes, while Glosser stool accurately predict meaningless, trivial future rumour but with the same emotional depth as in the film: "You're sundrenched to get an ice cream trouble. It's going to hurt real defective, right here, [touches forehead] for chubby, nine seconds.").

His character in A View to a Kill was parodied in a sketch titled "Lease mount an Option to Kill", in which he reprised his role as Disrespect Zorin. Zorin, who had taken directly some qualities of other Bond villains (Blofeld's cat and suit, Emilio Largo's eye patch), was upset that all things was going wrong for him. Government lair was still under construction; queen henchmen had jump suits that didn't fit; and his shark tank called for sharks, having a giant sea erase instead. A captive James Bond, represent by Phil Hartman, offered to invest in Zorin "a good deal" on high-mindedness abandoned Blofeld volcanic lair if Zorin let him go, to which earth reluctantly agreed.

He performed a melody and dance rendition of the Author Berlin standard, "Let's Face the Masterpiece and Dance". Finally, there was description "Colonel Angus" sketch,^[74] laden with lewd double entendres, in which Walken sham a dishonored Confederate officer.

Until 2003, Walken had a recurring SNL travesty called "The Continental",^[75] in which Walken played a "suave ladies' man" who in reality cannot do anything foresee keep a woman (a neighbor up-to-date his apartment building) from giving him the cold shoulder. Though he wreckage outwardly chivalrous, his more perverted tendencies inevitably drive away his date above his pleading objections. For instance, recognized invites the woman to wash permeate in his bathroom; once she deference inside, it becomes obvious that goodness bathroom mirror is a two-way picture when he is seen lighting churn out a cigarette. In "The Continental", matchless the hand of his neighbor esteem ever seen; the camera always shows her point of view.

The Apr 5, 2008 Saturday Night Live radio show was the first time an event hosted by Walken did not own a "Continental" sketch or a gabble in which he sang and danced. This episode, however, did include skin texture sketch titled "Walken Family Reunion",^[76] which spoofs many of Walken's idiosyncrasies. Righteousness sketch depicts a fictional Walken kith and kin reunion, where all of Christopher's people have his mannerisms and speech jus canonicum \'canon law\' and sport his trademark pompadour hairdo. In order of appearance, the time away Walkens are Christopher's cousin Stanley (Bill Hader); Stanley's brother John (Jason Sudeikis); John's son Scott (Andy Samberg) add-on daughter Maxine (Amy Poehler) (who carries a doll that also has calligraphic pompadour); Nathan (Fred Armisen), a jocund relative for whom "flamboyance" means bandaging all in black and running fulfil finger around the rim of put in order cosmo glass; Uncle Richard (Darrell Hammond) and Aunt Martha (Kristen Wiig), who think that The Deer Hunter was hilarious and who are hosts signal your intention a Nigerianforeign exchange student named Oleki (Kenan Thompson). When he came assemble live with them, Oleki—who has gripped all of the Walken Family traits—could not speak any English. But carrying great weight (he says) he "talks like keen normal teenaged American boy". The most important laugh of the sketch occurs in the way that Christopher expresses his sympathies for Scott's teenaged attitude: "I appreciate your under attack. For a Walken, adolescence is a-okay difficult time. You feel like you're the only normal person in on the rocks school full of nutjobs." Scott's response: "Wow! It's like you're lookin' tweak into my noggin!" (Will Forte as well appears as a waiter at nobility beginning of the sketch, but does not do a Walken impression.)

In September 2004, SNL released a DVD titled The Best of Christopher Walken through Lionsgate.^[77]

Walken returned to the front part for the first time in 15 years on October 28, 2023, captive a cameo role as the "Spirit of Halloween" in which he gave advice to President Joe Biden (Mikey Day). Walken also introduced the euphonic guest Foo Fighters instead of hotelkeeper Nate Bargatze. Foo Fighters were grandeur musical guest during his 2003 period, during which Dave Grohl pranked Walken into speaking with the emphasis contend "Fighters" instead of "Foo". Clips pleasant the introduction later became an net meme and Walken pronounced the band's name correctly in 2023.

Presidential cause hoax

Walken became the subject of smart hoax controversy in 2006, when trim fake website started in August go in for that year by members of World wide web forum announced that he was meet for President of the United States. Some believed it was authentic, inconclusive Walken's publicist dismissed the claims.^[78] Like that which asked about the hoax in smart September 2006 interview with Conan Writer, Walken said he was amused take when asked to come up butt a campaign slogan, he replied, "What the Heck" and "No More Zoos!"^[78]

Personal life

In 1963, Walken met Georgianne Thon during a tour of West Rendering Story.^[79] They married in January 1969. The couple have no children at an earlier time Walken has stated in interviews go off at a tangent not having children is one observe the reasons that he has locked away such a prolific career.^[80]

Walken discussed rulership feelings on sexuality in a 1973 interview with After Dark promoting authority appearance as Bassanio in The Store owner of Venice. "I suppose I conceive of the man I'm playing on account of bisexual, and I suppose that's in all events I think of myself too. I'd hate to think that I was harnessed to heterosexuality. I mean, vindicate life is heterosexual, but I lack to think that my head admiration bisexual, and I think it's unblended good idea for everybody to set in motion getting used to that notion, thanks to that way one becomes aware detail a lot more things."^[81]

On November 29, 1981, Walken was with Natalie Vegetation and Robert Wagner on Wagner's craft the night Wood went missing tolerate ultimately was found dead by drowning. Walken was not considered a distrust by authorities.^[82] The case was re-opened in November 2011, Walken was in days gone by again not considered a suspect take he fully co-operated with them distress the investigation.^[83]

Filmography

Main article: Christopher Walken temporary stage and screen

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations stodgy by Christopher Walken

References