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
- Beyond Reason as Dr. Grovenor
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.
1981
- Falcon Crest as Carter St. John
- Simon & Simon
- Separate Ways as Lawrence Stevens
- Scruples as Dr. Rutgers
- Nero Wolfe
- Advice to the Lovelorn as Walter Sheehan
1980
- Make Me an Offer as Glenn Harris
- The Nude Bomb as American Ambassador
1979
- Knots Landing as Henry
- Hart to Hart
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as U.S. President
- Beggarman, Thief as American Intelligence Agent
- Mrs. Columbo
- North Dallas Forty as Doctor
- Visions of Christmas Past
- In Search of Historic Jesus as Joseph of Arimathea
- Mirror, Mirror as Dr. Samuel Shaw
1978
- Dallas as Cole Young
- Vega$
- The New Adventures of Heidi as Cousin Tobias
1977
- The Incredible Hulk
- Lou Grant as Reggie Washburn
- The Pinballs as Mr. Mason
- Black Sunday as Fowler
- Big Hawaii as Giles Webber
- Fun with Dick and Jane as Mr. Weeks
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Twilliger
- Quincy, M.E.
- Time Travelers as Dr. Stafford
- St. Ives as Mickey
- Street Killing as The Major
- The Big Bus as Mr. Ames
- Fury of the Dragon as Frank P. Scanlon
1975
- Starsky & Hutch
- Framed as Sen. Tatum
- Bronk
- S.W.A.T.
- Stowaway to the Moon as Whitehead
- The Other Side of the Mountain as Dean
- Archer
1974
- Little House on the Prairie
- The Rockford Files as Clyde Russell
- The Six Million Dollar Man as General Harland Tate
- Petrocelli as Arthur Martin
- Harrad Summer as Sam Grove
- Winter Kill as Ben
- Run, Joe, Run
- The Stranger Who Looks Like Me as Mr. Denver
- The Chadwick Family as Dr. Simon
- The Green Hornet as Dist. Atty Scanlon
- Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest as Michael Doran
- The Cowboys as Reager
1973
- Kojak as Judge Lavery
- The Magician as Orin Connover
- Executive Action as Smythe
1972
- M*A*S*H as General Weiskopf
- The Waltons as Mr. Clarence Johnson
- Emergency! as James Barnes
- The Rookies
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Banacek as Walter Peterson
- The Sixth Sense
- The Astronaut as Tom Everett
1971
- Alias Smith and Jones
- McMillan & Wife as D. A. Chapman
- Lawman as Luther Harris
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Mr. Patrick
- A Tattered Web as Lt. Preston
- Bearcats! as Fairfield
- The Andromeda Strain as Assistant to Cabinet Secretary (uncredited)
- The Return of Count Yorga as Bill Nelson
- Sarge: The Badge or the Cross as Rector
- The Man and the City
- The Mephisto Waltz as Party Guest (uncredited)
1970
- Tora! Tora! Tora! as Captain Theodore Wilkinson
- Dan August as Earl Jackson
- The Landlord as William Enders
- Arnie
- San Francisco International as Clifford Foster Evans
- Zig Zag as Adam Mercer
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
- Yours, Mine and Ours as Howard Beardsley
- Sergeant Ryker as Col. Arthur Merriam
- The Outsider
- The Outcasts
- How Sweet It Is! as Haskell Wax
1967
- Ironside
- Mannix
- The Invaders as Danvers
- The High Chaparral as Carney
- The Graduate as Mr. McGuire
- Dragnet as Capt. Carl Fuller
- Judd for the Defense
- 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
- The Great Adventure as Taylor
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Col. Arthur Merriam
- Mr. Novak as Jess Capper
- Arrest and Trial as Doc
- The Greatest Show on Earth
- Grindl
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
- Dr. Kildare as William Fredericks
- Ben Casey
- 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
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
- Desperate Journey as Sgt. Warwick
- Bullet Scars as Trooper Walter Leary
- The Male Animal as Reporter (uncredited)
- In This Our Life as Cab Driver (uncredited)
- All Through the Night as Reporter (uncredited)
- Murder in the Big House as Reporter (uncredited)
1941
- They Died with Their Boots On as Cadet Rosser (uncredited)