Walter Brooke
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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.
Known for
Credits
The Graduate (1967)
as Mr. McGuire
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
as Captain Theodore Wilkinson
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
as Assistant to Cabinet Secretary (uncredited)
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
as Mr. Weeks
Jagged Edge (1985)
as Duane Bendix
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
as Howard Beardsley
The Nude Bomb (1980)
as American Ambassador
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
as The Mayor (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
Black Sunday (1977)
as Fowler
The Big Bus (1976)
as Mr. Ames
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
as Cadet Rosser (uncredited)
Executive Action (1973)
as Smythe
All Through the Night (1942)
as Reporter (uncredited)
In This Our Life (1942)
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
Lawman (1971)
as Luther Harris
North Dallas Forty (1979)
as Doctor
How Sweet It Is! (1968)
as Haskell Wax
Marooned (1969)
as Network Commentator
The Green Hornet (1974)
as Dist. Atty Scanlon
Conquest of Space (1955)
as Gen. Samuel T. Merritt
St. Ives (1976)
as Mickey
The Return of Count Yorga (1971)
as Bill Nelson
The Other Side of the Mountain (1975)
as Dean
The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Murder in the Big House (1942)
as Reporter (uncredited)
Sergeant Ryker (1968)
as Col. Arthur Merriam
Visions of Christmas Past (1979)
Actor
Desperate Journey (1942)
as Sgt. Warwick
Advice to the Lovelorn (1981)
as Walter Sheehan
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969)
as Jerry Wolfe
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me (1974)
as Mr. Denver
Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest (1974)
as Michael Doran
Time Travelers (1976)
as Dr. Stafford
Winter Kill (1974)
as Ben
Make Me an Offer (1980)
as Glenn Harris
The New Adventures of Heidi (1978)
as Cousin Tobias
Fury of the Dragon (1976)
as Frank P. Scanlon
Stowaway to the Moon (1975)
as Whitehead
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross (1971)
as Rector
Separate Ways (1981)
as Lawrence Stevens
Scruples (1981)
as Dr. Rutgers
San Francisco International (1970)
as Clifford Foster Evans
The Landlord (1970)
as William Enders
The Male Animal (1942)
as Reporter (uncredited)
The Astronaut (1972)
as Tom Everett
A Tattered Web (1971)
as Lt. Preston
Framed (1975)
as Sen. Tatum
Beyond Reason (1982)
as Dr. Grovenor
Zig Zag (1970)
as Adam Mercer
Street Killing (1976)
as The Major
Mirror, Mirror (1979)
as Dr. Samuel Shaw
C-Man (1949)
as Joe
Harrad Summer (1974)
as Sam Grove
The Chadwick Family (1974)
as Dr. Simon
The Party Crashers (1958)
as Mr. Webster
White Water Rebels (1983)
as Leonard Phelps
Bullet Scars (1942)
as Trooper Walter Leary
Bloodlust! (1961)
as Dean Gerrard
The Pinballs (1977)
as Mr. Mason
In Search of Historic Jesus (1979)
as Joseph of Arimathea