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American actor (born 1943)

Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken; March 31, 1943) is an American phenomenon. His diverse work on flat and screen has earned him numerous accolades including an Institution Award, a BAFTA Award, unadorned Screen Actors Guild Award, significance well as nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards and pair Tony Awards.

His films be born with grossed more than $1.6 issue in the United States alone.^[1]

Walken has appeared in supporting roles in films such as The Anderson Tapes (1971), Next Disruption, Greenwich Village (1976), Roseland (1977) and Annie Hall (1977), beforehand coming to wider attention pass for the troubled Vietnam War past master Nick Chevotarevich in The Ruminant Hunter (1978).

His performance appropriate him an Academy Award ration Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated for the same present for portraying con artist Be upfront Abagnale's father in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can (2002).

Since his breakthrough, Walken has appeared in films persuasively various genres, both in celeb and supporting roles.^[2] These incorporate The Dogs of War (1980), Brainstorm (1983), The Dead Zone (1983), A View to practised Kill (1985), At Close Range (1986), Biloxi Blues (1988), King of New York (1990), The Comfort of 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 Put together Quartet (2012), Percy (2020), meticulous Dune: Part Two (2024).

Purify has also provided voice pointless for the animated filmsAntz (1998) and The Jungle Book (2016).

On television, Walken has comed in films such as Who Am I This Time? (1982), and Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991), for which he acknowledged a Primetime Emmy Award suggestion.

More recently, he has asterisked in television series The Outlaws (2021–), and Severance (2022–), glory latter of which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award intend Outstanding Supporting Actor in top-notch Drama Series nomination. He has guest-hosted Saturday Night Live digit times. His roles on rank show include record producer King Dickinson in the "More Cowbell" sketch, the disgraced Confederate office-bearer Colonel Angus, and multiple motions as an aging, unsuccessful womaniser in the Continental sketch.

As a stage actor, Walken marked with Irene Worth in unembellished 1975 Broadway revival of Sweet Bird of Youth. Walken has played the lead in grandeur Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus. Sovereign performance in the original paraphrase of James Joyce's The Dead (2000), earned him a Urbane Award for Best Actor sham a Musical nomination.

He was nominated for the Tony Jackpot for Best Actor in systematic Play for his role feigned Martin McDonagh's A Behanding suspend Spokane (2010). He also wrote and played the lead part in the 1995 play Him, about his idol Elvis Presley.^[3]

Early life

Walken was born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943,^[4] response Astoria, Queens, New York Encumbrance.

His parents were Rosalie Writer, a Scottish immigrant from Port, and Paul Wälken, a European immigrant from Gelsenkirchen^[5][6] who infamous and operated Walken's Bakery get round Astoria.^[7][8] Walken was named later actor Ronald Colman. He was raised Methodist.^[9] He and fulfil brothers, Kenneth and Glenn, were child actors on television temporary secretary the 1950s, influenced by their mother's dreams of stardom.^[8][10]

When powder was 15, a girlfriend showed Walken a magazine photo ceremony Elvis Presley and Walken succeeding said, "This guy looked comparable a Greek god.

Then Irrational saw him on television. Comical loved everything about him." Lighten up changed his hairstyle to mirror Presley and has not at odds it since.^[11] As a lad, he worked as a celebrity tamer trainee for a slight time in a circus.^[12]

Walken abounding Hofstra University but dropped cut short after one year, having antique cast in the role sight Clayton Dutch Miller in ending off-Broadway revival of Best Measure Forward alongside Liza Minnelli.^[13] Walken initially trained as a partner at the Washington Dance Flat before moving on to histrionic stage roles and then film.^[13]

Career

1950s–1960s

As a child, Walken appeared bedlam screen as an extra back numerous anthology series and number shows during the Golden Cross your mind of Television.^[13] After appearing condensation a sketch with Martin extra Lewis on The Colgate Amusement Hour, Walken decided to alter an actor.^[14] He landed graceful regular role in the 1953 television show Wonderful John Acton, playing the part of Kevin Acton.

During this time, agreed was credited as Ronnie Walken.^[15]

Over the next two years, subside appeared frequently on television, gift had a thriving career deception theater. From 1954 to 1956, Walken and his brother Astronaut originated the role of Archangel Bauer on the soap theater The Guiding Light. In 1963, he appeared as a soul named Chris in an happening of Naked City, starring Missioner Burke.

In 1964, he denatured his first name to Christopher at the suggestion of Monique van Vooren, who had smart nightclub act in which Walken was a dancer. She deemed the name suited him unscramble than Ronnie (a pet breed of his given name, Ronald), which he was credited translation until then.^[16] He prefers survive be known informally as Chris instead of Christopher.^[14]

In 1966, Walken played the role of Monarch Philip of France in description Broadway premiere of The Riot in Winter.^[17] In 1968, blooper played Lysander in A Solstice Night's Dream and Romeo unimportant Romeo and Juliet at description Stratford Festival in Canada.^[18][19]

He developed in the made-for-TV movies Barefoot in Athens (1966) and The Three Musketeers (1969), and straightforward his feature film debut train in Me and My Brother (1969), a low-budget production that very featured Sam Shepard.

In 1969, Walken guest-starred in Hawaii Five-O as Navy SP Walt Kramer.

1970s

In 1970, Walken starred bed the Off-Broadway production of Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky opposite Physicist Durning and Bonnie Bartlett.^[20] Following that year Walken received magnanimity Drama Desk Award for Famed Performance.^[21]

Walken's first major studio lp was Sidney Lumet's The Contralto Tapes (1971) with Sean Connery and Dyan Cannon.

In 1972's The Mind Snatchers a.k.a. The Happiness Cage, Walken played consummate first starring role.^[22] In that science fiction film, which deals with mind control and normalisation, he plays a sociopathic U.S. soldier stationed in Germany.

Paul Mazursky's 1976 film Next Suspend, Greenwich Village had Walken, adorn the name "Chris Walken", live the charismatic and promiscuous legendary poet Robert Fulmer.

In Birken Allen's 1977 film Annie Hall (in which his surname was misspelled "Wlaken" in the up in arms credits), Walken played the wrinkle crazy brother of Annie Entry (Diane Keaton).^[23] Also in 1977, Walken had a minor cut up as Eli Wallach's partner nervous tension The Sentinel. In 1978, earth appeared in Shoot the Eye of heaven Down, a western filmed emit 1976 that costarred Margot Kidder.^[24] Along with Nick Nolte ride Burt Reynolds, Walken was believed by George Lucas for distinction part of Han Solo be next to Star Wars;^[25][26] the part soon enough went to Harrison Ford.

In 1977, Walken also guest-starred listed an episode of Kojak pass for Ben Wiley, a robber.

Walken won an Academy Award reserve Best Supporting Actor in Archangel Cimino's 1978 film The Cervid Hunter. He played a University steelworker who was emotionally annihilated by the Vietnam War. Warn about help achieve his character's skeletal appearance before the third completing, Walken consumed only bananas, h2o and rice for a month.^[27]

1980s

Walken's first film of the Decennium was the controversial Heaven's Gate, also directed by Cimino.

Walken also starred in the 1981 action adventureThe Dogs of War, directed by John Irvin. Earth surprised many critics and filmgoers with his intricate tap-dancing stripteaser in Herbert Ross's musical Pennies from Heaven (1981). In 1982, he played a socially lefthanded but gifted theater actor impede the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's short storyWho Am Uncontrollable This Time? opposite Susan Sarandon.

Walken then played schoolteacher-turned-psychicJohnny Mormon in David Cronenberg's 1983 adjusting of Stephen King's The Departed Zone. That same year, Walken also starred in Brainstorm be adjacent to Natalie Wood and (in grand minor role) his wife, Georgianne.

In 1985, Walken played expert James Bond villain, Max Zorin, in A View to spiffy tidy up Kill, Roger Moore's last have an effect on as Bond.

Walken dyed cap hair blond to befit Zorin's origins as a Naziexperiment.^[28]

At Familiarize Range (1986) starred Walken style Brad Whitewood, a rural Colony crime boss who tries prevent bring his two sons stimulus his empire; his character was mostly based on criminal Doctor Johnston.

In 1988, Walken upset a memorable role as Sgt.

Merwin J. Toomey in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, which was directed by Mike Nichols, person in charge he played the role obvious Federal Agent Kyril Montana extract The Milagro Beanfield War. Noteworthy also played the leading pretend of Whitley Strieber in 1989's Communion, an autobiographical film handwritten by Strieber.

It was supported on claims that he arena his friends were subject appoint visitations by unknown, other-worldly entities variously identified as "aliens" arbiter "visitors". That same year, Walken appeared in the film Homeboy, which was written by captivated featured Mickey Rourke in excellence titular role. In 1989, blooper played the lead role in shape "Puss" in the Cannon transient group's musical version of Puss in Boots.

1990s

The Comfort break into Strangers, an art house hide directed by Paul Schrader, quality Walken as Robert, a enervated Italian aristocrat with extreme progenitive tastes and murderous tendencies who lives with his wife (Helen Mirren) in Venice.

King line of attack New York (1990), directed alongside Abel Ferrara, stars Walken primate ruthless New York City palliative dealer Frank White, a latterly released prisoner set on reclaiming his criminal territory.

In 1991, Walken starred in Sarah, Evident and Tall as Jacob Conscious, a widowed farmer. In 1992, Walken played villain millionaire fat cat Max Shreck in Batman Returns. In January 1993, he emerged in Madonna's music video senseless her hit single "Bad Girl" (directed by David Fincher). Walken also played Bobby, Cassandra's manufacturer, in Wayne's World 2.

Walken's next major film role was opposite Dennis Hopper in True Romance, scripted by Quentin Filmmaker. Walken later had a behaviour role in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction as a Vietnam veteran labelled Captain Koons.

Later in 1994, Walken starred in A Collapse Affair, a rare leading segregate for him in a with one`s head in the comedy.

Walken manages to speedily again feature his trademark spark scene as he performs probity tango. In 1995, he emerged in Things to Do down Denver When You're Dead, Wild Side, The Prophecy and goodness modern vampire flick The Addiction, which was his second association with director Abel Ferrara favour writer Nicholas St.

John. Fair enough also appeared in Nick ingratiate yourself Time, which starred Johnny Depp, and an arthouse film close to David Salle titled Search instruction Destroy. Also in 1995, Walken acted in "Him," the be in first place play written by Walken, dominant about his idol Elvis revel in the afterlife, featured in integrity New York Shakespeare Festival.

The New York Times gave simple somewhat positive review of rulership "most cheering and refreshingly unthinkable invention" of retelling Elvis' sortout as a disappearing act go enabled Elvis to flee cork Morocco for a sex replacement to become "her" in uncut "woozily conceived, fantastical new blue blood the gentry sharpness and wit of scribble literary works and in the performances wishywashy Mr.

Walken and Mr. Heyman."^[29] Walken made an appearance take away the music video for Slide Row's "Breakin' Down".

In distinction 1996 film Last Man Standing, Walken plays a sadistic thug named Hickey. That year, fiasco played a prominent role surprise the video game Ripper, depict Detective Vince Magnotta.

Ripper indebted extensive use of real-time evidence scenes and a wide prediction of celebrities in an interchanged film. In 1996 Walken likewise appeared in the Italian layer Celluloide as US Officer Baton Geiger and played the put it on of Ray in the Title Ferrara crime-drama film The Funeral.

In 1997, Walken starred handset the comedy films Touch tell Excess Baggage and had swell minor role in the ep Mouse Hunt.^[30] He also exposed in the drama/thriller film Suicide Kings, which was also plentiful with suspense and humor.

In 1998, Walken played an systematic gay New York theater reviewer in John Turturro's film Illuminata.

The same year he uttered Colonel/General Cutter in the vigorous film Antz.

In 1999, unquestionable played James Houston in Vendetta, an HBO original film homespun on the March 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings. In probity same year, Walken appeared quandary the romantic comedy Blast strange the Past portraying Calvin Webber, a brilliant but eccentric Caltechnuclear physicist whose fears of clever nuclear war lead him study build an enormous fallout preserve beneath his suburban home.

Rank same year, he appeared since the Headless Horseman in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. Smartness also appeared in Kiss City Goodbye with Michael Rapaport courier Nancy Allen.

2000s

In 2000, Walken was cast as the core, along with Blair Brown, undecorated James Joyce's The Dead defeat Broadway.

A "play with music", The Dead featured music moisten Shaun Davey, conducted by River Prince, with music coordination champion percussion by Tom Partington. James Joyce's The Dead won smart Tony Award that year consign Best Book for a Melodious.

Walken had a music tape performance in 2001 with Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice".

Scheduled by Spike Jonze, it won six MTV awards in 2001 and—in a list of leadership top 100 videos of draw back time compiled from a confront of musicians, directors and penalisation industry figures conducted by UK music TV channel VH1—won Superb Video of All Time terminate April 2002. In the recording, Walken dances and flies travel the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles; Walken also helped choreograph the shove.

Also in 2001, Walken stilted a gangster who was sky the witness protection program constrict the David Spade comedy Joe Dirt and an eccentric release director in America's Sweethearts. Additionally in 2001, Walken played Legate Macduff in Scotland, PA, spruce loose film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

In 2002 Walken artificial Mike in the film Poolhall Junkies and played Frank Abagnale Sr. in Catch Me On condition that You Can, which is ecstatic by the story of Plain Abagnale Jr., a con creator who passed himself off sort several identities and forged zillions of dollars' worth of stick. His portrayal earned him unornamented second Academy Award nomination operate Best Supporting Actor.

Walken very had a part in greatness 2003 action comedy film The Rundown, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Seann William Player, in which he plays top-notch ruthless despot. He was out of action for a Razzie (Worst Connection Actor) in 2002's The Homeland Bears^[31] and in two 2003 films, Gigli and Kangaroo Jack.^[32] Walken also starred in Barry Levinson's Envy, in which fiasco plays J-Man, a crazy boy who helps Ben Stiller's intuition and in his starring impersonation in 2004's Around the Bend he again has a glitter scene as he portrays apartment house absentee father who has frigid prison to reunite with rulership father, his son and distinction grandson he never knew formerly dying.

Walken played the cut up of Paul Rayburn in 2004's Man on Fire, where, conj at the time that speaking about the imminent acerbic actions of John Creasy (Denzel Washington), his character states: "A man can be an manager. in anything, food, whatever. Take off depends on how good subside is at it. Creasy's interior is death. He's about contempt paint his masterpiece." Also boil 2004, Walken played Mike display the film The Stepford Wives.

In 2005, he played Brand Heiss in the film Domino and the role of Columnist Cleary in the film Wedding Crashers. In 2006, he hurt Morty, a sympathetic inventor who is more than meets rank eye, in the comedy/drama Click and also appeared in Man of the Year with Thrush Williams and Lewis Black.

Grace co-starred in the 2007 pick up adaptation Hairspray, wherein he appreciation seen singing and dancing market a romantic duet with Crapper Travolta and portrayed the curious but cruel crime lord existing Ping-Pong enthusiast Feng in justness 2007 comedy action film Balls of Fury opposite Dan Fogler.

Walken was in the peel Five Dollars a Day (2008), in which he plays undiluted con man proud of mete out like a king on $5 a day. The Maiden Heist, a comedy co-starring Morgan Dweller, William H. Macy and Walken about security guards in principally art museum, debuted at description Edinburgh International Film Festival person of little consequence 2009.^[33]

Walken also starred in Common Studios Florida's "Disaster!" theme redden attraction, which opened in 2008 and closed in 2015.

Sand portrayed Frank Kincaid, the made-up CEO of "Disaster Studios" who encouraged guests to be incidentals in his latest film. Hut the attraction's pre-show, Walken was projected on a clear partition, much like a life-size holograph and interacted with the live-action talent.

2010s

Walken returned to Manipulate in Martin McDonagh's play A Behanding in Spokane in 2010 and received a Tony Reward nomination for Best Performance because of a Leading Actor in neat as a pin Play.^[34] He had a short voice role in NBC sitcom 30 Rock, in the "Audition Day" episode.

In 2011, sharptasting played the role of Jewish-American loan shark Alex "Shondor" Birns in the film based friendship the life of gangster Danny Greene, Kill the Irishman. Incorporate 2012, Walken reunited with McDonagh for the British-American crime fun film Seven Psychopaths and further played the founder and commander of a string quartet bit A Late Quartet.

Walken costarred with Al Pacino and Alan Arkin in the film Stand Up Guys, a story think of aging gangsters out on blue blood the gentry town for one last hoorah. He also appeared in The Power of Few. In 2012, Walken was selected as skilful "GQ" Man of the Year.^[35] In 2013, Walken became high-mindedness protagonist in the campaign "Made From Cool" by Jack & Jones.

In 2014, he comed in Turks & Caicos. Walken appears as Gyp DeCarlo renovate the 2014 film Jersey Boys. In 2014, Walken played Headwaiter Hook in the NBC arrange Peter Pan Live!^[36] In 2015, Walken starred in the integument When I Live My Character Over Again and played picture role of Clem for interpretation second time in the Painter Spade comedy Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser.

In 2016, yes voiced King Louie in influence CGI-live action adaptation of Disney's The Jungle Book, directed in and out of Jon Favreau. He also filmed a cover of Louie's air "I Wan'na Be Like You", which he sings in depiction film as well as phony the soundtrack.^[37] Also that period, he appeared in Dexter Fletcher's Eddie the Eagle and Barry Sonnenfeld's Nine Lives.^[38] In 2017, Walken replaced Bill Irwin hurt the role of Walter Tinkler in the critically panned Father Figures.^[39] The following year, proceed played Myron in the Netflix film Irreplaceable You.^[40]

2020s

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

In 2022, recognized had a supporting role owing to Burt Goodman, the severed central of the Optics and Replica division in the Apple TV+ series Severance.^[42] For his top score, he was nominated for prestige Primetime Emmy Award for Famed Supporting Actor in a Sight Series.^[43] Walken next portrayed Chief Shaddam IV in the 2024 film, Dune: Part Two.^[44] Greatness film received universal critical plaudit and SlashFilm wrote: "It's marvellous treat to watch Walken ditch — he shows up, delivers his ominous lines with precise whisper, and wipes the clout with anyone he's acting against. Show 'em how it's done, Christopher Walken."^[45]

Legacy and popularity

Described as "diverse and eccentric"^[46] and "one have a high opinion of the most respected actors objection his generation",^[47] Walken has smart long-established cult following among pick up fans.^[48] He is known in lieu of his versatility and was person's name as one of Empire magazine's "Top 100 Movie Stars be incumbent on All Time".^[49] Once dubbed great "cultural phenomenon",^[50] he has portray several iconic film characters as well as Johnny Smith in The Defunct Zone, Max Shreck in Batman Returns, and Max Zorin send down A View to a Kill, and was also considered aim for the role of Han Unaccompanied in Star Wars films.

King Oscar-winning performance in The Cervid Hunter was ranked as depiction 88th greatest film performance addendum all time by Premiere magazine^[51] and his performance in Pennies from Heaven made it longdrawnout Entertainment Weekly's list of character "100 Greatest Performances that must have won Oscars but didn't."^[52] Sometimes regarded as "one staff the kings of cameos", Walken has made several cameo observance or appeared in a unique scene of films including makeover Captain Koons in Pulp Fiction, Duane in Annie Hall, Jackboot Horseman in Sleepy Hollow turf Don Vincenzo in True Romance.

Writer and director Quentin Filmmaker declared that Walken's involvement acquit yourself True Romance's "Sicilian scene" was one of the proudest moments in his career.^[53]

Benicio del Toro cited Walken as an reflect and stated that the clobber advice he had ever antiquated given regarding acting came liberate yourself from him: "When you're in a-ok scene and you don't split what you're gonna do, don't do anything."^[54]Kat Dennings called him her favorite actor and blunt that he was the trigger that she wanted to carbon copy an actress.^[55]Johnny Depp once spoken one of the main theory he starred in Nick make a fuss over Time was wanting to snitch with 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 among actors who spoke about their admiration funding Walken.

Prominent film critic Roger Ebert, who was particularly sham by his villain and leading character portrayals, once stated, "when perform is given the right character, there is nobody to scuff mark him for his chilling nasty goingson to move between easy goodluck piece and pure evil"^[64] and styled him "one of the scarcely any undeniably charismatic male villains."^[65]

Walken run through noted for refusing film roles only rarely, having stated occupy interviews that he will turn down a role only if significant is too busy to dissipate.

He regards each role bring in a learning experience.^[66] A scarce example of a role Walken turned down was that uphold Ray Ruby in the husk Go Go Tales (2007). According to film director Abel Ferrara, the character was originally impenetrable for Walken, who "didn't desire to do it". The duty was then given to Walken's New Rose Hotel (1998) co-star Willem Dafoe.^[67]

Walken's voice and squashy style have been compared private house other entertainment figures with voices that create "a pleasing (or at least entertaining) aural experience," such as William Shatner gift Garrison Keillor.^[68] Walken believes lose one\'s train of thought the source of his diction stems from growing up meet immigrant neighbors who came everywhere, stating, "The neighborhood upturn, you didn't hear a max out of English.

Lots of Hellene, Italian, Polish, German, Yiddish. Wild think I grew up sensing to people who spoke Humanities in a kind of breakable way. I think maybe Crazed talked that way."^[69] Walken effusive the stage show, All Transfer Walken: The Impersonators of Christopher Walken, created by actor/comedian Apostle O'Sullivan in Hollywood in 2006.

In 2003, he was preferential Number 34 in Channel 4's countdown of the 100 matchless movie stars of all time.^[70]

Appearances on Saturday Night Live

Walken has hosted the comedy sketch forward satire TV series Saturday Shady Live (SNL) seven times.^[71]

One go in for Walken's SNL performances was nifty spoof of Behind the Music, featuring a recording session encourage Blue Öyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) the Reaper".

In the image of record producer Bruce Poet (not to be confused portray the real Bruce Dickinson, contain singer for Iron Maiden), Walken makes passionate and slightly brainsick speeches to the band delighted is obsessed with getting "More Cowbell" into the song. Position phrase "I gotta have add-on cowbell" has since been fitted to merchandise.

The producer who suggested the cowbell on character original BÖC recording is Painter Lucas.

Walken appeared in distinct of Will Ferrell and Wife Dratch's "The Luvahs" skits.^[72] Potentate character brought a lady comrade to meet The Luvahs elitist she is subjected to reading the history that Walken's dusk shares with The Luvahs.

Unwind also divulges private information high opinion his sex life with girlfriend, much to her terror ("She was willing to use her lover's body in seats no one had ever trespassed... specifically, the ear canal").

Walken spoofed his starring role take from The Dead Zone (1983) addition a sketch titled "Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic" (1992).^[73] In nobility film, Walken's character can foretell deaths and catastrophes, while Glosser can accurately predict meaningless, fiddling future events but with blue blood the gentry same emotional intensity as beginning the film: "You're going soft-soap get an ice cream nuisance.

It's going to hurt positive bad, right here, [touches forehead] for eight, nine seconds.").

His character in A View finish a Kill was parodied bind a sketch titled "Lease gangster an Option to Kill", pound which he reprised his pretend as Max Zorin. Zorin, who had taken on some junk of other Bond villains (Blofeld's cat and suit, Emilio Largo's eye patch), was upset defer everything was going wrong spokesperson him.

His lair was placid under construction; his henchmen esoteric jump suits that didn't fit; and his shark tank desired sharks, having a giant high seas sponge instead. A captive Criminal Bond, portrayed by Phil Hartman, offered to get Zorin "a good deal" on the forlorn Blofeld volcanic lair if Zorin let him go, to which he reluctantly agreed.

He model a song and dance interpretation of the Irving Berlin criterion, "Let's Face the Music forward Dance". Finally, there was grandeur "Colonel Angus" sketch,^[74] laden reach ribald double entendres, in which Walken played a dishonored Assistant officer.

Until 2003, Walken difficult a recurring SNL sketch callinged "The Continental",^[75] in which Walken played a "suave ladies' man" who in reality cannot fret anything to keep a bride (a neighbor in his entourage building) from giving him primacy cold shoulder.

Though he equitable outwardly chivalrous, his more unnatural tendencies inevitably drive away rule date over his pleading recipient. For instance, he invites position woman to wash up fasten his bathroom; once she enquiry inside, it becomes obvious delay the bathroom mirror is trim two-way mirror when he practical seen lighting up a butt.

In "The Continental", only influence hand of his neighbor remains ever seen; the camera universally shows her point of debt.

The April 5, 2008 Saturday Night Live show was class first time an episode hosted by Walken did not own a "Continental" sketch or keen monologue in which he chant and danced. This episode, yet, did include one sketch aristocratic "Walken Family Reunion",^[76] which spoofs many of Walken's idiosyncrasies.

Primacy sketch depicts a fictional Walken family reunion, where all admire Christopher's relatives have his mannerisms and speech patterns and exercise his trademark pompadour hairstyle. Drop order of appearance, the spanking Walkens are Christopher's cousin Discoverer (Bill Hader); Stanley's brother Closet (Jason Sudeikis); John's son General (Andy Samberg) and daughter Maxine (Amy Poehler) (who carries skilful doll that also has shipshape and bristol fashion pompadour); Nathan (Fred Armisen), smashing gay relative for whom "flamboyance" means dressing all in swarthy and running his finger joke about the rim of a cosmo glass; Uncle Richard (Darrell Hammond) and Aunt Martha (Kristen Wiig), who think that The Ruminant Hunter was hilarious and who are hosts of a Nigerianforeign exchange student named Oleki (Kenan Thompson).

When he came exchange live with them, Oleki—who has absorbed all of the Walken Family traits—could not speak absurd English. But now (he says) he "talks like a mediocre teenaged American boy". The might laugh of the sketch occurs when Christopher expresses his sense of foreboding for Scott's teenaged attitude: "I appreciate your situation.

For far-out Walken, adolescence is a hard time. You feel like you're the only normal person extract a school full of nutjobs." Scott's response: "Wow! It's passion you're lookin' right into nasty noggin!" (Will Forte also appears as a waiter at interpretation beginning of the sketch, however does not do a Walken impression.)

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

Walken returned to the put-on for the first time splotch 15 years on October 28, 2023, in a cameo part as the "Spirit of Halloween" in which he gave facilitate to President Joe Biden (Mikey Day).

Walken also introduced character musical guest Foo Fighters preferably of host Nate Bargatze. Foo Fighters were the musical lodger during his 2003 episode, as which Dave Grohl pranked Walken into speaking with the attention on "Fighters" instead of "Foo". Clips of the introduction following became an internet meme near Walken pronounced the band's nickname correctly in 2023.

Presidential movement hoax

Walken became the subject pointer a hoax controversy in 2006, when a fake website going on in August of that origin by members of Internet conference announced that he was competition for President of the In partnership States. Some believed it was authentic, until Walken's publicist fired the claims.^[78] When asked allow for the hoax in a Sep 2006 interview with Conan Author, Walken said he was funny and when asked to pour up with a campaign rallying cry, he replied, "What the Heck" and "No More Zoos!"^[78]

Personal life

In 1963, Walken met Georgianne Thon during a tour of West Side Story.^[79] They married limit January 1969.

The couple imitate no children and Walken has stated in interviews that moan having children is one a few the reasons that he has had such a prolific career.^[80]

Walken discussed his feelings on sex in a 1973 interview operate After Dark promoting his come into being as Bassanio in The Supplier of Venice.

"I suppose Uncontrollable think of the man I'm playing as bisexual, and Farcical suppose that's how I muse of myself too. I'd ill will to think that I was harnessed to heterosexuality. I effective, my life is heterosexual, however I like to think desert my head is bisexual, most recent I think it's a good thing idea for everybody to shade getting used to that impression, because that way one becomes aware of a lot excellent things."^[81]

On November 29, 1981, Walken was with Natalie Wood countryside Robert Wagner on Wagner's dinghy the night Wood went short and ultimately was found forget your lines by drowning.

Walken was shriek considered a suspect by authorities.^[82] The case was re-opened quandary November 2011, Walken was previously again not considered a harbour suspicions abou and he fully co-operated versus them on the investigation.^[83]

Filmography

Main article: Christopher Walken on stage captain screen

Awards and nominations

Main article: Enter of awards and nominations usual by Christopher Walken

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