Walter Brooke
Born: 1914-10-13 in New York City, New York, U.S.
Died: 1986-08-20
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1985
- Jagged Edge as Duane Bendix
1983
- The A-Team as General Bullen
- Automan as Theodore Behrens
- White Water Rebels as Leonard Phelps
1982
- St. Elsewhere as Dr. Lunden
- Cagney & Lacey as Judge
- Cassie & Co.
- Beyond Reason as Dr. Grovenor
1981
- Falcon Crest as Carter St. John
- Simon & Simon
- Nero Wolfe
- Scruples as Dr. Rutgers
- Separate Ways as Lawrence Stevens
- Advice to the Lovelorn as Walter Sheehan
1980
- The Nude Bomb as American Ambassador
- Make Me an Offer as Glenn Harris
1979
- Knots Landing as Henry
- Hart to Hart
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as U.S. President
- Mrs. Columbo
- Beggarman, Thief as American Intelligence Agent
- North Dallas Forty as Doctor
- Mirror, Mirror as Dr. Samuel Shaw
- Beggarman, Thief as American Intelligence Agent
- In Search of Historic Jesus as Joseph of Arimathea
- Visions of Christmas Past
1978
- Dallas as Cole Young
- Vega$
- The New Adventures of Heidi as Cousin Tobias
1977
- The Incredible Hulk
- Lou Grant as Reggie Washburn
- Big Hawaii as Giles Webber
- Fun with Dick and Jane as Mr. Weeks
- Black Sunday as Fowler
- The Pinballs as Mr. Mason
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Twilliger
- Quincy, M.E.
- The Big Bus as Mr. Ames
- Time Travelers as Dr. Stafford
- St. Ives as Mickey
- Street Killing as The Major
- Fury of the Dragon as Frank P. Scanlon
1975
- Starsky & Hutch
- S.W.A.T.
- Bronk
- Archer
- The Other Side of the Mountain as Dean
- Framed as Sen. Tatum
- Stowaway to the Moon as Whitehead
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Sandler
- The Rockford Files as Clyde Russell
- The Six Million Dollar Man as General Harland Tate
- Petrocelli as Arthur Martin
- Run, Joe, Run
- The Green Hornet as Dist. Atty Scanlon
- The Cowboys as Reager
- Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest as Michael Doran
- Winter Kill as Ben
- The Stranger Who Looks Like Me as Mr. Denver
- Harrad Summer as Sam Grove
- The Chadwick Family as Dr. Simon
1973
- Kojak as Judge Lavery
- The Magician as Orin Connover
- Executive Action as Smythe
1972
- The Waltons as Mr. Clarence Johnson
- M*A*S*H as General Weiskopf
- Emergency! as James Barnes
- The Rookies
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Banacek as Walter Peterson
- The Sixth Sense
- The Astronaut as Tom Everett
1971
- McMillan & Wife as D. A. Chapman
- Alias Smith and Jones
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Mr. Patrick
- Bearcats! as Fairfield
- The Andromeda Strain as Assistant to Cabinet Secretary (uncredited)
- Lawman as Luther Harris
- The Man and the City
- The Mephisto Waltz as Party Guest (uncredited)
- A Tattered Web as Lt. Preston
- The Return of Count Yorga as Bill Nelson
- Sarge: The Badge or the Cross as Rector
1970
- Arnie
- Dan August as Earl Jackson
- Tora! Tora! Tora! as Captain Theodore Wilkinson
- The Landlord as William Enders
- Zig Zag as Adam Mercer
- San Francisco International as Clifford Foster Evans
1969
- Marcus Welby, M.D. as Dr. Roy Staples
- Room 222
- Marooned as Network Commentator
- Daddy's Gone A-Hunting as Jerry Wolfe
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Samuel Hammock
- Lancer
- The Outsider
- The Outcasts
- Yours, Mine and Ours as Howard Beardsley
- How Sweet It Is! as Haskell Wax
- Sergeant Ryker as Col. Arthur Merriam
1967
- Mannix
- Ironside
- The Invaders as Danvers
- The High Chaparral as Carney
- Dragnet as Capt. Carl Fuller
- Judd, for the Defense
- The Graduate as Mr. McGuire
- The Danny Thomas Hour
1966
- The Green Hornet as Frank P. Scanlon
- The Rat Patrol as Capt. Vulcan
1965
- The Wild Wild West as Prosecutor
- The Big Valley as Dave Steigler
- The F.B.I. as Lucas Vale
- Run for Your Life as The Examiner
- Paradise Bay
1964
- The Munsters
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Dan Case
1963
- The Fugitive as Jesse Platt
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Col. Arthur Merriam
- Mr. Novak as Jess Capper
- Arrest and Trial as Doc
- The Great Adventure as Taylor
- Grindl
- The Greatest Show on Earth
1962
- The Virginian as Lt. Paul Kenner
- McHale's Navy as Capt. Harper
- The Beachcomber as Erickson
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm as The Mayor (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")
1961
- Ben Casey
- Dr. Kildare as William Fredericks
- Bus Stop
- Bloodlust! as Dean Gerrard
1959
- Bonanza as Tobias Wentworth Finch
- The Twilight Zone as Chad Cooper
- Hawaiian Eye
- New York Confidential
1958
- The Donna Reed Show
- Bronco
- The Party Crashers as Mr. Webster
1957
- Perry Mason as District Attorney
- Trackdown as Doc Walters
1955
- Cheyenne as Edward DeVier
- Gunsmoke as Capt. Nichols
- Conquest of Space as Gen. Samuel T. Merritt
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Mr. Brown
1951
1950
1949
- C-Man as Joe
1948
1942
- In This Our Life as Cab Driver (uncredited)
- The Male Animal as Reporter (uncredited)
- All Through the Night as Reporter (uncredited)
- Desperate Journey as Sgt. Warwick
- Bullet Scars as Trooper Walter Leary
- Murder in the Big House as Reporter (uncredited)
1941
- They Died with Their Boots On as Cadet Rosser (uncredited)